{"id":22463,"date":"2025-06-11T00:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=22463"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T21:22:11","slug":"taqueria-al-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/taqueria-al-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY ISAIAH FRIZZELL
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\n\"\"The best tacos in Idaho? Perhaps! Packed all day long, Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor, the breezy, flowery, outdoor street spot, is slamming. You can\u2019t miss the yellow truck, right there on Main Street in Hailey, between the Chevron and the State Liquor Store.
\nYou\u2019ll hear \u2018truly authentic,\u2019 \u2018real deal\u2019 and \u2018freaking fantastic\u2019 from locals, transplants and even folks jaunting across the U.S. for summer holiday. The Canos do pastor right.
\n\u201cWe go through 80 to 120 pounds of meat every single day, \u201c Said Nancy Cano. \u201cMy husband [Pascual] is a perfectionist and he\u2019s just passionate\u2026 it\u2019s pure love. A lot of people claim they make pastor but If it\u2019s not done in the marinade, put on the spindle where it turns and slowly cooks, it\u2019s not pastor. That\u2019s why we\u2019re named Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor.\u201d Nancy Cano emphasizes the love and care her husband puts into the food while her beautiful face is always there to help you get what you need.<\/p>\n

The Difference<\/strong>
\nNancy Escamillo Cano and husband Pascual Cano are dedicated to their craft\u2014a true labor of love. Pascual Cano learned to cook with his uncle in Juarez, Mexico, who ran a popular restaurant chain. After arriving in Idaho to live with family, Pascual met Nancy at the tender age of 19. Four years later they were married in Jerome, and while forging a family they began serving traditional Mexican food to the community.
\nThe Canos began with a small restaurant in Bellevue serving a more extensive menu. They moved to Hailey, with a partner, and began serving from a trailer in the empty lot where CK\u2019s Real Food was eventually built, around 2011. \u201cThe people from church would come to eat on Sundays,\u201d Cano remembers.
\nThe Canos have been serving Idaho for over 26 years, 10 of them being at their current location. They consistently strive to treat the community as a family. Pascual Cano\u2019s perfectionism, love and dedication to the craft has culminated in a wildly beloved taco spot, open in Hailey six months of the year. The couple return to Texas from October to March as it\u2019s tough to serve street food in the snow and cold, plus they have kids and family in El Paso.<\/p>\n

Community Street Food<\/strong>
\nNearly any non-Western country has an abundance of street carts offering unique, extraordinary fruits, meats, and treats. In America, not so much, unless you\u2019re in L.A. To have such a solid offering here in the Valley is a blessing. While food trucks have become prevalent at events, and are generally of good quality, there\u2019s a difference. The price, guaranteed immediacy and simplicity of authentic street food is what draws folks to Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor and the simplicity of the location\u2014right there in the parking lot, easy, quick, and with perfect attention to authentic pastor. Street food is meant to be quick, with explosive flavors at a reasonable price, and that\u2019s what Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor does with aplomb.
\nJust don\u2019t park in the Liquor Store\u2019s parking slots! It\u2019s advised to park behind the truck or on the street.<\/p>\n

Nancy Cano is a loving community leader. \u201dI believe that if you give with your heart, it\u2019ll come back to you and it\u2019s always about the kids. I think it\u2019s rude to sit with three or four friends and four are eating while the fifth isn\u2019t, so I\u2019ll come out and give them a plate of tacos. You know, I\u2019m Mexican, my mom raised me a certain way. You don\u2019t eat in front of other people and have them watch you! So many kids have grown up, come back with their own kids and reminded me, \u2018You gave me food when I didn\u2019t have any money!\u2019 and they\u2019re so thankful. It\u2019s a wonderful feeling. I do it with adults, too.
\n\u201cA gentleman from Sun Valley Roofing once came by and gave me a $100 bill. He said, \u2018Here, make sure you keep giving out tacos to the kids who don\u2019t have any money.\u2019 I was blown away! I just love this community, how everyone knows and cares for each other.\u201d The Canos are true community.<\/p>\n

Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor, 209 S. Main St., Hailey, Idaho 83333, Tuesday\u2013Saturday, 11 a.m.\u20137 p.m.,Sundays, 11 a.m.\u20134 p.m. Closed Monday. Taquer\u00edaalpastor.godaddysites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY ISAIAH FRIZZELL The best tacos in Idaho? Perhaps! Packed all day long, Taquer\u00eda Al Pastor, the breezy, flowery, outdoor street spot, is slamming. You can\u2019t miss the yellow truck, right there on Main Street in Hailey, between the Chevron and the State Liquor Store. You\u2019ll hear \u2018truly authentic,\u2019 \u2018real deal\u2019 and \u2018freaking fantastic\u2019 from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,2,88,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"category-commentary","9":"category-local","10":"category-people-that-you-meet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22466,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions\/22466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}