Tacos
Handmade tortillas, onion, cilantro, and lime. Choose pastor, asada, pollo, birria, or chorizo.
You came here from a DoorDash search
Looking for the best tacos in Burien? You just found the kitchen.
If a search on DoorDash for tacos is what sent you this way, that search worked out better than you know — you have landed on the food truck itself rather than a listing of it. Taquería Vela grills every taco to order on a handmade tortilla and finishes it the way it should be finished: onion, cilantro, and a wedge of lime on the side. You pick the meat.
¡Hecho con cariño!
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A genuine thank you
Thank you for taking the extra step
Most people tap whichever app opens first and never think about it again. You kept looking until you found the taquería itself, and for a family running a truck on 1st Ave S, that is not a small thing.
Whether you order tonight or you are just here reading the menu and deciding, we are genuinely glad the search brought you to our own page instead of stopping three screens earlier.
Where the money goes
What a delivery app quietly takes out of a taco order
The price you see in a marketplace app is rarely the whole story. Fees get taken from both ends of the same order — a commission from the restaurant, card processing on top of that, and a stack of service and delivery fees added to your total at checkout.
What an app takes out of a taco order
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 the same order costs direct
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
Order direct and the arithmetic changes completely
Ordering straight from this page skips every one of those layers. You pay a small ordering fee and nothing else. We pay no commission, which is exactly why our online menu prices are the same prices you would pay standing at the window.
The menu price is the real price
We are not absorbing a commission on your order, so nothing has to be padded to survive one. The number next to the taco is the number you pay.
One fee, shown before you pay
A single small ordering fee appears at checkout. No separate service charge, no delivery markup layered on top of a markup.
Your money stays on 1st Ave S
What you spend reaches a family truck in Burien and the people working it, rather than being routed out of the local economy.
Questions go straight to the griddle
Allergies, a big taco order for a crew, or a question about the pastor — call the truck and you are talking to whoever is cooking.
Order Direct Online (opens in a new tab) Call (425) 919-5602
From our menu
What to order: build a taco plate
Start with tacos and add whatever else is calling. Everything is cooked to order.
Ready for tacos?
Same food, same menu prices, and far more of what you spend staying in Burien.
However you found us
Came looking through a different app?
Whichever app you started in, the arithmetic on this page does not change. If you were searching one of these instead, the direct door is the same door.
Taquería Vela is an independent, family-owned food truck. DoorDash 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.