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August 14, 2013 By cheryl

Rockaway Taco (Rockaway Beach, N.Y.): A Delicious Reprise

It isn’t truly summer until you’ve had your first fried fish taco. (So I believe, anyway.)

Going by this policy, summer still hadn’t hit for me in early August. This late in the game, that certainly had to be fixed.

So on a recent morning, even though I had only just been to Rockaway Taco in New York‘s Rockaway Beach a few days before, I decided it was time to return …

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Filed Under: Beach, Mexican, New York, Tales From the Road, The Beach, Travel Tagged With: Beach, Fish, Mexican, Pineapple, Quesadilla, Rockaway Beach, Rockaway Taco, Summer, Taco, Watermelon

August 10, 2013 By cheryl

Rockaway Taco (Rockaway Beach, N.Y.): A Surfside Start

You get an inkling that a place is good if everyone who finds out you’re going somewhere for the weekend says you absolutely have to eat there.

Friends, your hairdresser — your hairdresser’s wife. You get the idea.

So on my first visit to Rockaway Beach in New York, I knew there was one place I had to find and hit: Rockaway Taco  …

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Filed Under: Beach, Mexican, New York, Queens, Restaurants, Tales From the Road, The Beach, Travel Tagged With: Beach, Breakfast, Chilaquiles, Mexican, New York, Rockaway Beach, Rockaway Taco, Tacos

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