But the founders of the Green Room have thrown caution to the wind and taken this trailer, once a thing called Another Roadside Attraction that plied grilled cheese sandwiches and such, and turned it into a taqueria.
Vortex Mex is simple and offers just four tacos -- grilled beef, roast chicken, braised pork, and veggie -- and charges $1.50 for each. Only problem is, your money quickly grows into about 10 bucks, because the average person with a modest appetite shouldn't order fewer than a half dozen.
Not that eating them is a chore. Packed in warm, supple flour tortillas, the signature element in these tacos is calabaza guisada, a squash stew created by sautéing onions and skinned tomatoes and then adding zucchini and squash before finishing the whole thing off with coriander and red-wine vinegar.
By far the best offering is the braised pork, a wad of shredded meat with cabbage. Though a bit overcooked, the grilled beef reeked with hearty flavors while it miraculously retained a good bit of moisture. Moist roasted chicken, which had a little tang but not much else, was the weakest in this quad. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the veggie fold. A chilled mix of firm, tender black beans, corn, and red cabbage was supple, articulate, and threaded with clean flavors.
"We've probably overengineered it a little bit," Whitney Meyers says of his taqueria. Yet this canopied trailer with yellow picnic tables and guacamole-colored brickwork in front had better be overengineered. The weather here can get really twisted for trailer squatters.