Get Your Goat
Most people appreciate an awesome chicken taco, and with Philadelphia’s taqueria era in full bloom these days, many of us have come to love pork tacos, too. But that’s hardly the width and breath of what can be folded into a tortilla.
The Cantina Los Caballitos, sister bar-restaurant to Royal Tavern, offers a goat-stuffed taco in addition to the regular suspects. The unusual meat takes well to a slow braise; it’s shredded into tender bites before becoming part of the final dish. The goat tacos are savory and rich, with notes that detractors might call gamey.
Goat meat is hardly sweeping the restaurant scene, but you can find it in restaurants as fancy as Vetri, where a baby goat is spit roasted, and as casual as South Street’s Caribbean Delight, where the hearty protein gets the spicy curry treatment.
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