"Oh boy," I nearly squealed with excitement the first time I pulled up to
Taqueria La Macro with my boyfriend. "This place looks like it's run by folks from Monterrey." In my head danced visions of
tacos de trompo and soft
asadero cheese-stuffed
piratas and
gringas, all specialties of the sprawling Mexican metropolis in Nuevo León. Perhaps, I thought wistfully, they'd even have a real trompo. PHOTOS BY TROY FIELDS