R04 · TACOS
FrontierTacos in New York City
The committed New York City pack lists 991 taco places — 3.6% of its 27,573 Google Places listings (pack built 2026-08-20; collection freshness unknown).
Highest-rated taco places in this pack
- Taco VidaNew York · 5.0 / 5 · 227 ratingsmap →
- Bar Amasa TaqueriaNew York · 5.0 / 5 · 194 ratingsmap →
- Molito Poblano 🇲🇽Flatbush · 5.0 / 5 · 151 ratingsmap →
- D'lioz Bakery ( HANDMADE )New York · 5.0 / 5 · 85 ratingsmap →
- egg cellent tacos Mexican cuisineNew York · 5.0 / 5 · 43 ratingsmap →
- Taqueria AllisonNew York · 5.0 / 5 · 30 ratingsmap →
- chilangos taqueriaBushwick · 5.0 / 5 · 28 ratingsmap →
- TacosJamaica · 5.0 / 5 · 23 ratingsmap →
- Dorado Tacos & QuesadillasNew York · 5.0 / 5 · 22 ratingsmap →
- Fredo'sWilliamsburg · 5.0 / 5 · 22 ratingsmap →
The 10 highest-rated taco places in the committed New York City pack, ordered by each listing's own Google Places rating — listings with fewer than 20 ratings are not ranked, and equal ratings break toward the larger sample. This is pack-wide standing, not the map's drive-time order; open a place for its report, or jump straight to it on the live frontier.
What counts
A listing joins FrontierTacos when its name mentions “taco”, “tacos” or “taqueria”, or its Google type is Taco Restaurant. Matches come only from each listing's own name and Google Places type tags — cuisine alone is never inferred.
“Mexican Restaurant” places without tacos in the name or type are not counted, so this frontier is a lower bound.
FrontierTacos coverage in each mapped pack
- Los Angeles metro4,373 taco places
- Bay Area (9 counties)1,546 taco places
- New York City (this report)991 taco places
- San Francisco152 taco places
Counts are listings inside each committed pack — a coverage sample, not a popularity or quality ranking. The mapped regions overlap (the Bay Area pack includes San Francisco) and cover only crawled Google Places listings, so they are not comparable measures of a region's food scene.
Other frontiers in New York City
- FrontierBoba268 boba shops
- FrontierPizza2,524 pizza places
- FrontierHalal1,148 halal listings
- FrontierCoffee3,318 coffee places
- FrontierRamen252 ramen shops
- FrontierBurgers1,308 burger places
- FrontierSushi1,056 sushi places
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Methodology & caveats
Counts are Google Places (New) listings from each region's committed crawl data; a place joins a frontier when its listing name or Google type matches that category. The pack build date shown is when the routing pack was compiled — the original crawl collection dates are not recorded, so listing freshness is unknown. Drive times on the map are free-flow estimates — road-class speeds, no traffic, no parking, no queue at the counter — computed only out to a two-hour limit; beyond that a place is simply uncharted. Quality scores are ratings scaled to 100 — a rating-derived proxy, not a taste measurement. Unrated places cannot be charted.
Only places whose Google listing says “Halal Restaurant” or whose name contains “halal”. Cuisine alone is never treated as certification — many halal kitchens are missing here, and listed status is unverified.
The full pipeline — corpus, road graph, speed model, routing and ranking — is documented on the methodology page.
FrontierFood is an independent parody research project about the geospatial accessibility of lunch. Not affiliated with Cognition or Google.