Arguably the most popular quesabirria purveyor in Sonoma County, this food truck also sells birria ramen and pizzadillas. Check Instagram for its current schedule, but the truck makes regular stops in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol.

Perhaps the only spot where you can routinely snag quesabirria on the west side of the city, Cielito Lindo brings some much-needed regional variety to the neighborhood, serving pambazos and a wide variety of tortas in addition to its headlining quesabirria — a notably crisp and juicy version.

This new Hayes Valley pop-up, located inside the space formerly occupied by Barcino, mostly serves Mayan-Yucatecan — lots of achiote-marinated meats and bean-stuffed, tostada-like panuchos — but the quesabirria has been one of the most popular items from the jump, served, as all their tacos are, on handmade blue corn tortillas.

One of the city’s buzziest new food trucks, El Fuego specializes in birria — both as a soft taco and in the crispy, cheesy quesabirria format. Other hard-to-find offerings include mulitas (with the meat encased between two tortillas, like a “sandwich”) and “keto”-style tacos, with crispy cheese taking the place of the tortilla. Check the truck’s Instagram page for its most up-to-date schedule, and walk up or order online.

This family-run, Mexico City-focused pop-up has been one of the stars of Richmond’s quesabirria scene since 2019, attracting a big following for its cheesy tacos, consommé, and related items like birria-men (consommé with instant noodles). The quesabirria tacos here are a little more compact (and proportionately less expensive), and the consommé itself is some of the richest and most flavorful around — well worth drinking on its own. Head taquera Laura Rivera is also known for her fat, well-blistered gorditas and for making what is perhaps the Bay Area’s tastiest pambazo. 

Quesabirria is a relatively new offering for this taco catering business turned standalone restaurant, but it’s quickly become one of the go-to spots on the Peninsula for these Tijuana-style tacos — and it serves quesabirria-adjacent items too, like birria ramen and birria “pizza.” Call in to order; there’s also outdoor seating on the patio.

The menu at this new Mexico City-inspired Berkeley taco truck is a mishmash of every current taco trend — mulitas, “pizza birria,” and handmade tortillas. It’s also jumped on the quesabirria freight train, serving a juicy version made with the family birria recipe.

One of the first taco trucks to bring quesabirria to wine country, Taco Addiction has been slinging the cheesy beef birria tacos since the beginning of the pandemic and also serves related items like birria ramen and birria “pizzadillas.” Check Instagram for the truck’s menu and its weekly schedule.

This new kiosk in the Durant outdoor food court brings mulitas, super tacos, handmade tortillas, and, yes, an appropriately meat, cheesy version of quesabirria. Come on Tuesdays when the birria tacos are marked down to just $2.50 apiece.

In its early days, Aguachiles El Tamarindo was best known as a seafood specialist — Fruitvale’s go-to spot for fiery camarones a la diabla, fried fish tacos, smoked marlin, and gorgeous (and gargantuan) seafood towers. You can still all that, but the truck has also jumped on the quesabirria hype train, selling a respectably juicy, cheesy, and quite photogenic version.

The wildly popular taco truck is now open at its new digs, outside the Aloha Club bar in the heart of the Fruitvale district. Its claim to fame was as one of the first spots in Oakland to offer quesabirria tacos, but also its menu packed with other crowdpleasers: seafood items like ceviches and aguachiles, loaded baked potatoes, and giant, quesadilla-like “pizza mulas,” which you can also get stuffed with birria if you like. The truck is currently open Thursdays and Fridays, 11 a.m.–5 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Call in, walk up, or get delivery via DoorDash. If you order food, the Aloha Club patio is also open for outdoor seating.

The over-sized quesabirria at this East Bay mini-chain of taquerias is served more like a quesadilla or a mulita than the typical version: Instead of folding the taco in the typical manner, a second tortilla gets stacked, sandwich-like, on top of all of the meat and melted cheese. The birria is a weekend-only offering here, as it is at the taqueria’s other locations in Hayward and San Pablo.

Maybe the newest contender in the East Bay quesabirria wars, this Hayward newcomer specializes in “MexiTerranean” food, which means you can order a gyro plate in addition to your extra-cheesy quesabirria and your birria ramen. It’s a takeout counter adjacent to a gas station convenience store, so don’t expect any frills.

Better known by its nickname, “OG Tacos,” Los Originales is, indeed, one of the early innovators of the Bay Area quesabirria scene, selling them — at first as an unlicensed street cart — as early as the fall of 2018. Its version is notable for its extra-flavorful birria and its double layer of extra-crunchy La Finca tortillas, which helps the tacos maintain their structural integrity. This is a quesabirria taco that works especially well for consommé dipping. Check Instagram for the latest schedule, but Los Originales puts in regular appearances at the Epidemic Ales taproom in Concord (Tuesdays and Fridays) and at the Antioch flea market (on Saturdays). You can pre-order in advance.