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Elevating Mexican street food to at least a third or fourth story, Puesto is an "upscale fast-casual" taqueria from two La Jolla bros and a Mexico City-born chef, who'll be whipping up meticulously crafted tacos in a brick-walled Wall St. joint with graffiti murals by local Chor Boogie, who works nights to ensure their size becomes legendary.

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Select a Base: You can mix and match all your heart desires, though they recommend pairing a meat (carne asada, pollo al pastor, camarones, etc.) with one of their second glance-worthy non-meats like potatoes & chiles or huitlacoche that's often described as either “corn truffles” or “a fungus that grows on corn untreated by fungicide”. Eat up!

Select Your Goodies: After they grill up that huitlacoche, top off your tacos with standards like avo, cilantro, and onion, then get crazy with heat-rated salsas like the pistachio and jalapeno “Pistache” or chipotle/ hibiscus “Jamaica”, which is usually way too much of a jerk to mess with flowers.

More Selections! If you're a total weirdo don't like tacos made with tortillas made before your very eyes, throw your cheesy/ meaty goods into a bowl with jasmine/ brown rice and black beans, or get a salad topped with grilled salmon, and watch everyone enjoying their huitlacoche lose total respect for you.

Bonus Insider Info: Ask for a stuffed jalapeno when choosing your meat and they'll grill up your cheese inside a gutted pepper, leaving you so stuffed, they'll have no choice but to Rollergirl you out of there.

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Much like their beer & wine license, the site's on its way. So until then you'll have to make do with this enticing menu, and the one on their wall that you will see tomorrow when mysteriously drawn there like a moth to another moth during moth sexing.