Quesabirrias
Double corn tortilla with cheese, beef birria, onion, cilantro, and lime.
You came here from a Caviar search
Searching Caviar for quesabirrias? This is where they are made.
A quesabirria is a simple thing done carefully: a double corn tortilla, cheese, tender beef birria, onion and cilantro, pressed on the griddle until the edges go crisp and lacquered. Ours come off that griddle and into your hands, not into a warming bag for a stranger to carry across town.
¡Hecho con cariño!
Sabor de Guerrero
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A genuine thank you
We are grateful you looked past the listing
Marketplace apps are good at being the first thing you find. They are less good at telling you who is actually cooking. You went and found out — and you are reading the words of the family that does it.
If you are still deciding, that is completely fine. Read the menu, look at the photos, call us with a question. We would rather earn the order than be the default option on somebody else's homepage.
Where the money goes
The part of the bill nobody puts on the listing
Third-party ordering is not free — it is just billed in places you do not see. A commission comes out of the restaurant's side of every order, card processing is charged on top, and service and delivery fees are layered onto your total.
The cost that never appears on a listing
Typical industry ranges
- Commission charged to the restaurant up to 30%
- Credit card processing about 3%
- Service and delivery fees added to your total up to 15%
Taken out of one order as much as 48%
What a direct quesabirria order costs
What you actually pay
- A small ordering fee, shown before you pay small
- Commission taken from the restaurant none
- Menu prices marked up to cover a platform none
Extra cost to you one small fee
About these numbers. The percentages above are typical published ranges across third-party delivery platforms as a category, not a quote of any single company’s current rates. Commission structures vary by platform, by the plan a restaurant is on, and by market, and customer-side service and delivery fees vary by order. The proportions in the bars are illustrative.
Our own ordering fee is shown to you before you pay, and our menu prices online are the same as our menu prices at the truck.
Ordering direct
Direct ordering keeps the plate whole
Order through this page and there is one small ordering fee and nothing hidden behind it. No commission comes out of the kitchen, so the price on our online menu is the same price as the price on the truck.
Crisped to order, not to a schedule
Ordering direct means the griddle work starts for you. Quesabirrias are at their best minutes old, and that is easier to protect without a courier queue in between.
No commission, therefore no markup
Restaurants on marketplaces often raise prices to survive the cut. There is no cut here, so our online prices match the truck.
A small fee is the whole difference
One modest ordering fee, disclosed up front, instead of a commission on our side and a stack of fees on yours.
Burien keeps the remainder
Money spent on a family taquería tends to circulate close to home — wages, suppliers, rent on the lot.
Order Direct Online (opens in a new tab) Call (425) 919-5602
From our menu
What to order: the birria run
If birria is what you came for, there is more than one way to have it.
Craving quesabirrias?
Order them from the people pressing them on the griddle.
However you found us
Came looking through a different app?
The same is true no matter which app pointed you here. If you were browsing one of the others, the direct route is identical.
Taquería Vela is an independent, family-owned food truck. Caviar and the other service names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them, and this page does not claim that Taquería Vela is listed on any particular service. These names appear only to help people who were searching for our food on those platforms find us directly.