~6.5 mi across the water
The best Mexican food near Vashon is straight across the water.
If you are in Vashon, Vashon Island, 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 Vashon inside the circle, about 6.5 miles to the south-west.
¡Hecho con cariño!
Sabor de Guerrero
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The neighborhood
About Vashon
Vashon sits in Puget Sound between West Seattle and the Kitsap Peninsula, close enough to the city to see it and far enough to feel nothing like it. There is no bridge — everything and everyone arrives by ferry — and the island has held onto its farms, its studios, its orchards and a stubbornly independent streak because of it.
Vashon town is the island's main village, and as the crow flies it is only about six and a half miles from our truck. The water in between is the whole story.
Honest note about the crossing
Vashon is inside our ten-mile radius measured in a straight line, but the line crosses open water. There is no bridge to the island — everything arrives on a Washington State Ferry, which makes a door-to-door delivery a very different proposition from the same distance on pavement.
So please start your order online and check what is offered for your address before you count on delivery, or call and we will tell you plainly what we can do. Pickup at the truck is always available, and for most islanders that is the simpler answer.
About the food truck
The kitchen on the mainland
On the Burien side of the water, José A. Vela and Selene Cuevas Dorantes run this truck with their family, cooking recipes that came from Tierra Colorada, in the municipality of Juan R. Escudero, Guerrero. It is the same handful of people every day.
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 Vashon.
What Vashon orders
Island orders tend to be planned rather than impulsive, which suits our weekend cooking. Tamales in banana leaves with chicken and pork, red and green sauce. Big trays of tacos. Aguas frescas — horchata, jamaica, pepino con limón — poured fresh before they go.
Worth building a trip around
Plenty of islanders order online and collect at the truck on their way back from a mainland errand. It is the surest way to get the food at its best, and the drive from the Fauntleroy boat is short.
Delivery
Ten miles around the truck
We deliver up to ten miles from 14003 1st Ave S in Burien. Vashon sits about 6.5 miles to the south-west, inside that circle.
Put your Vashon address into the online menu and it will show you exactly what is offered where you are, alongside current prices and anything sold out for the day.
Whether it comes across or you collect it yourself, ordering direct costs less than a marketplace and keeps the money with a small family business.
Order Online for Vashon (opens in a new tab) Call (425) 919-5602
Hungry in Vashon?
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.