Mexican Stands at OC Fair

Here's the Mexican food stands you'll see if you make it to the Orange County Fair before their last day on August 5:

Pepe's

Noel's

Rose's

Hussong's

Remember the 1980's when everyone had a Hussong's t-shirt?

Churro Cart

I don't know what this stand (above) was called but it served fish tacos.

Baja Blues

This is likely to be the same setup next year as well. I didn't see where they were serving the Twinkie Relleno but a stand near Noel's Mexican Food was serving Deep-fried Coke. Yes, you read that right: Deep-fried Coke.

UPDATE: Here's a stand I saw when I went to the fair in July 2008:

Pepe's Marisco's

Disneyland Churro Carts

Disneyland Churro Price/Cost: $3.50 (with some variation; scroll down for more information)

Disneyland Churro Addicts Anonymous Facebook Group

Near the Haunted Mansion

Any patron of Disneyland knows that the food there is as much a part of the fun as the rides and the churros at Disneyland have been around as long as I can personally remember. If my information is correct, the land that Disneyland sits on was purchased by Walt Disney from a Mexican family, the Dominguez family, so it makes sense that Mexican food would be offered here. I've already covered the three Mexican restaurants found at the Disneyland resort (click the "disneyland" label at the bottom of this entry to read all our coverage of Mexican food at Disneyland) so it was time to move on to the churro carts that are hard to miss while enjoying your time at the park.



The churros are kept in a heater in their cart but with their popularity chances are any time you order one it'll be very fresh or pretty darn close to it. Upon ordering, your churro is rolled in cinnamon and sugar. Having not had one in years I was bracing myself for a greasy experience but my churro last week was surprisingly light. I ate and enjoyed most of it and had to feed the small amount remaining to a nearby waste receptacle, not because the churro was so greasy, but because it was so long, perhaps 2 feet long. This makes the perfect snack between meals or if you are an annual passholder making a quick stop.

Introducing the churro lightsaber

The carts I encountered offered cups of chocolate or caramel dipping sauce for an additional 50 cents (the churros are $3.50 without sauce). Information I've found online from a few years ago indicated that there used to be different flavors of churros at Disneyland but I was only able to find the one kind. If anybody knows any differently please leave a comment.

Downtown Disney near the Rainforest Cafe

In front of Sleeping Beauty Castle

Near "It's a Small World"

Near the pavilion at the front of DCA

Outside the Hyperion Theater at DCA

Near "It's a Small World"

Near entrance to the Mark Twain Riverboat

Near "Pinocchio's Daring Journey"

Near "Toy Story Mania"

In the "Bug's Life" area at DCA

In the Brother Bear area

Near Matterhorn?

Stuffed Churro Update - September 11, 2008

Just found out today that stuffed churros are back - at least at Downtown Disney (see picture of the cart above). The guy running the cart said they might show up inside the two theme parks later. You can get them filled with strawberry, bavarian creme or caramel. Price: $3.75. Or you can get a king-sized twisted churro (w/o filling) for $3.25.

UPDATE (February 23, 2009):

The churro cart seen immediately above has been removed and replaced with this one that is closer to the Lego Store, and it's called the "Downtown Churro Co.:"

Here's a closer look at their menu board:

UPDATE (October 28, 2013):

Spotted a new churro cart today at Downtown Disney which might have replaced the one seen just above and it has quite a few different flavors and amazingly still at $3.75, the price Disneyland hiked their regular churros up to a couple years ago. I never bought a regular one since then (respectfully, Disneyland, I know people buy a lot of food there but how do you not realize those prices also deter a lot of sales?) but I guess a flavored one at that price is a little more understandable. Hard to not go to the Happiest Place on Earth without also feeling like you're being a little taken.

The Disney Food Blog also wrote up this new cart (kiosk?) after I tipped them to it and sent the photo.

UPDATE (January 12, 2015):

The aforementioned churro cart at Downtown Disney now also has churro ice cream sandwiches and Oreo churros:

Churro Cart at the Irvine Spectrum

When I first started this blog I was aware of the churro cart that parks frequently in front of the steps that lead to the Edwards Theater at the Irvine Spectrum and thought, "Wouldn't it be funny if I even reviewed churro carts?" Then I brushed the idea off as being way too silly . . . until I recently found out that they don't just have churros there, they also have different flavored churros. Finally tried one today, the raspberry variety and it almost made me miss the shuttle back to my work but it was worth it. They heated it up right there, then rolled it in a cinnamon/sugar mixture and even cut it in half so I could share it with co-workers, a perfect, compact, portable dessert item. They have another cart run by the same people over near the Ferris wheel at the Spectrum. The girl running the cart today said they are mostly just there on the weekends and I guess randomly throughout the week.

Flavors:

• Original
• Raspberry
• Apple
• Bavarian Custard
• Caramel

I don't know how to evaluate a churro cart, but it's the best one I know of. Only strike against them is that when they leave their cart they should post a note informing customers when they expect to return. That docks them half of a Speedy Gonzales, but they still earn a very respectable four and a half Speedy Gonzales rating: