Hard shell tacos topped with cheese, onion, sour cream, and lime - Cavan Images/Getty Images Taco night is a great way to get family or friends together with minimal fuss since everyone can build ...

You may not see hard shell tacos in Mexican restaurants much, because they were invented in the U.S. — specifically in San Bernardino, California, in in 1937 by Lucia and Salvador Rodriguez — but that ...

Poor hard-shell taco — despised target of millions of Mexicans, beloved by fewer and fewer gabachos every year as your soft-taco and burrito brethren ascend. Who could possibly love your bland, ...

Hardshell tacos have a reputation for being “inauthentic,” an aberration of the form invented by a white fast food mogul named Glen Bell. (Can you guess which popular chain he founded?) And while Glen ...

The version that once thrived at the midcentury fast food stands of Los Angeles is now a regional treasure. By Tejal Rao Tejal Rao is a critic at large, in Los Angeles. Bar A Tí is a serious taqueria: ...