Guero's Salsa and More Review: Radcliff Taco Trailer

Key Takeaways

• Guero's Salsa and More is a veteran owned, family run food trailer built on a family recipe for red and green salsa
• Britten ordered crispy chicken tacos with house fried shells and a chicken and chorizo combo; Michele got a full 12 inch quesadilla
• The tres leches cake runs about six dollars, with Fruity Pebbles and strawberry versions reportedly coming soon
• Britten's fail of the week: he brought exactly one cake, and Michele was not having it
• Catch the trailer Wednesdays at Advance Auto Parts in Radcliff and Sundays at the Rineyville Farmers Market, with the schedule posted on Facebook as Guero's Salsa Verde

Summary

Britten McDowell brought Michele along, and a genuine appetite, to Guero's Salsa and More, the red taco trailer that has been building a following in Radcliff. He came for crispy chicken tacos. She wanted a quesadilla. Both walked away recommending it, along with a tres leches cake that closed the meal out on a high note.

It matters because this is a review with same-week timing built in. Guero's shows up in this episode's Events roundup too, at Advance Auto Parts in Radcliff the very next day, so anyone who wants to try it does not have to wait.

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"Hey guys, experienced eater here," Britten opened, filming on a Wednesday in Radcliff. "I'm in Radcliff. I want some tacos. Mama wants a quesadilla. So I'm going to go see what they have for us at Guero's Salsa and More."

Guero's is a small, veteran owned family operation. The owner built the business on his wife's family recipe for salsa, starting with chips and a red and green salsa before growing the menu out from there into the full trailer it is today. Britten has been back twice now, and the story he tells is the one every regular tells about a good taco truck: you're driving down the road, you get the craving, and then you see the trailer and just pull right in.

He ordered a chicken and chorizo combo, crispy tacos with all the fixings, and made a point of calling out one detail before anything else. "They fry their own shells, which I mean, that's impressive for me," he said. "I think that's fantastic. They take the care to do that. Do you hear that crunch?" The chorizo got the strongest praise of the visit. "Chorizo's tremendous. Tremendously flavorful. It's a really good taco." Both the red and green salsas made it into the review, dunked and approved.

Michele's order was the quesadilla, and it did not disappoint on size. "This thing's huge," Britten said. "That's a full 12 inch quesadilla. So it's like two 12 inch tortillas. It's not folded in half." Michele called it pretty tasty and went in for a dunk of her own.

Dessert is where Guero's has started branching out, and Britten, who calls himself a tres leches expert, put it to the test. "Tres leches cake is supposed to be like super moist, because it's got all the milks poured over it," he explained before tasting. "That's a good tres leches cake, guys. Love it." It runs about six dollars, which he called a solid value, and a couple of new flavors are reportedly on the way, including Fruity Pebbles and strawberry.

That is also where the segment's running joke landed. Britten brought exactly one cake for the two of them. "I get the fail because they also had a cocoa one, but I didn't think we needed to do the cakes," he admitted. Michele was not letting him off easy. "Your fail is that you didn't bring me my own cake," she said, and the two ended up in a genuine tug of war over the last few bites. Michele won.

Britten's closing take doubled as the review's real verdict. "The Guero's, they're a small family owned operation," he said. "They are out there. They're working hard. They're doing it right. And if you see that red trailer set up and you pull in, you will be happy with what you get." His advice for finding them: follow Guero's Salsa Verde on Facebook, where they post their schedule, since a truck means you have to catch them where they are. This week that's Advance Auto Parts in Radcliff on Wednesday and the Rineyville Farmers Market on Sunday.

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