South & West Seattle — inside the radius
The best Mexican food in South Seattle comes up from Burien.
If you are in Seattle, WA and looking for the best Mexican food around, you have landed in the right place. Taquería Vela is a family-run Mexican food truck at 14003 1st Ave S in Burien, and we deliver up to 10 miles around the truck — which puts Seattle inside the circle, from about 3 to 10 miles to the north.
¡Hecho con cariño!
Sabor de Guerrero
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The neighborhood
About Seattle — the part we can reach
Seattle is the biggest city in Washington, wrapped around Elliott Bay with Puget Sound on one side and Lake Washington on the other. The south and west ends of it — White Center, South Park, Georgetown, Beacon Hill, Columbia City, the Rainier Valley, SoDo, Delridge, Fauntleroy, Alki — are the neighborhoods sitting inside our delivery radius.
Those neighborhoods have fed this city's appetite for real Mexican food for decades, and we are proud to be part of that stretch of road rather than an import to it.
Which parts of Seattle
Seattle is a long city and our radius is ten miles, so we reach the southern and western half of it rather than all of it. Neighborhoods like White Center, South Park, Georgetown, Beacon Hill, Delridge, Columbia City, the Rainier Valley, SoDo and downtown fall inside it.
North Seattle — Ballard, Fremont, the U-District, Northgate — sits beyond ten miles from Burien, so we cannot promise delivery there. Enter your address online and you will know straightaway.
About the food truck
A Burien truck, not a chain
There is no commissary and no corporate menu behind this. José A. Vela and Selene Cuevas Dorantes run the truck with their family, cooking from recipes that came north with them from Tierra Colorada, in the municipality of Juan R. Escudero, Guerrero. Every order is made when it is ordered.
Tortillas are handmade. Meat is your choice — pastor, asada, pollo, birria or chorizo, with tripa, cabeza and lengua available for an extra charge. Aguas frescas are poured fresh. It is the same food whether you are standing at the window in Burien or having it sent to Seattle.
What Seattle orders
City orders skew toward the things that travel well and eat fast: quesabirrias, burritos, tortas, and asada fries. Plates of carne asada and enchiladas go north too, packed with rice, beans and handmade tortillas on the side.
Lunch that beats the block
If you work in SoDo, Georgetown or the industrial south end, an order placed online in the morning is a considerably better lunch than whatever is within walking distance of the shop. Order ahead and it is ready when you are.
Delivery
Ten miles around the truck
We deliver up to ten miles from 14003 1st Ave S in Burien. Seattle sits from about 3 to 10 miles to the north, inside that circle.
Enter your Seattle address on the online menu and it will tell you straightaway whether you are inside the circle — no guessing at neighborhood boundaries, and you will see live prices and sold-out items at the same time.
Ordering direct is also cheaper for you than a delivery marketplace, and keeps more of the money in south King County instead of routing it out.
Order Online for Seattle (opens in a new tab) Call (425) 919-5602
Hungry in Seattle?
Start your order online and let us take care of the rest.
Nearby
Other areas we reach
Every one of these sits inside the same ten-mile circle around the truck.