Tacos Mapaches
After bowling, we headed over to our new favorite taco joint Tacos Mapaches. ‘Mapache’ is spanish for ‘Raccoon’. Tacos Mapache is in the Marina Vallarta area, across from the “Foam Party” club.
The cool thing about this particular taco stand is that in addition to some (slightly expensive but) hella good tacos, it’s the home to a family of 30+ raccoons that come at all hours of the day for masa treats (masa is the corn dough used to make tortillas). The raccoons actually live in a marsh reserve that is out back, behind the restaurant. They use the taco stand as a home base and free meal. So as you’re eating your tacos, you get to swat off several raccoons begging for food, sometimes they mistake your toe for a scrap. Then out comes the big bowl of masa and in come the entire family. It’s definitely worth the 20 or peso extra it costs us to eat at Tacos Mapaches.
