El Tío Juan Taco Truck

El Tío Juan Taco Truck is a taco truck on Foothill Boulevard in East Oakland's St. Elizabeth neighborhood that has served the area since the mid-1990s.

Overview

The truck parks at 4075 Foothill Blvd., between Rosedale and 41st avenues. Hoodline, citing the business's Yelp profile, reported in 2019 that it had been serving Oakland since 1996, making it one of the longer-running taco trucks in the city. It appeared on several Hoodline lists of Oakland's best and most affordable food trucks and taco spots in 2019, and later in a Hoodline list of the five best places for tacos in Oakland.

Menu

Published sources describe the menu only in general terms as tacos and other street dishes typical of an Oakland lonchera. The truck is notable mainly for its staying power: it was already a fixture of Foothill Boulevard in the 1990s, before the wave of birria and Tijuana-style trucks that reshaped the city's taco scene in the 2020s, and it continued to rank among locally popular trucks in review-based lists more than two decades later.

Reviews

See also

• Tacos de carne asada

References

1. "Oakland's 4 best spots to score low-priced Mexican fare". Hoodline. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
2. "The 5 best spots to score tacos in Oakland". Hoodline (via Yahoo News). Retrieved 2026-10-10.