(Truck is mobile, but we often find Birria de Chivo at 83rd St. and Compton Ave.)
For the true goat lover (of the eating kind, not the romantic), Birria de Chivo is a must for you! Like any good Birriería, chivo is basically all they serve. Every time I ask for anything else, like a tostada or pastor taco, I am denied, even if they were, at some point, hand-painted on the truck's side-panel. Sometimes the owners even forewarn black and white munchers that this particular lonchera is all about goat before orders can escape their mouths. They did have cabesa tacos the other day...
But let's stop kidding around! Custies step up for goat and goat is what they get. Juicy, saucy plates of pierna y aldilla and birria tacos fill Florence's plates and mouths for the short time the truck idles the area's lots. I skip the plate of goat (I haven't asked if they serve truckside chamorro) and head straight to the tacos. There medium-sized discs come with the shredded, glistening roasted pink meat on an open tortilla lilly-pad, sprinkled with onion and cilantro, with the consomme-like birria on the side in a cup. In true taco-head-style, throw lime juice on top, roll it up, and dip it directly into the cup-o-birria. The control factor here allows the natural taste of the goat to stand out with sauce lightly coating the outside, stand alone (if you choose to skip the sauce entirely), or bathe in it, if you're hard to the core.