True to its name, Snack Dragon started out as an actual shack slapped to the front of a deli on Avenue B. Now installed in a cozy storefront with a takeout window on 3rd St., the Dragon offers tacos with fresh ingredients made on premises, in five varieties: carne asada, pollo verde, carnitas, quinoa (veggie), and fish. The carne asada taco ($4) is usually my pick–marinated steak and black beans topped with salsa, sour cream, and monterey jack, seasoned with cilantro and lime, and folded in a blue corn tortilla. For the price it’s not a huge amount of food, and as California transplants tell me, the food here doesn’t quite stack up to the eats in the taco wonderland that is the West Coast. On the plus side, Snack Dragon more conveniently situated than Cali, and is open late (til 4am on weekends and probably far faster and tastier than your other options at that hour).

Vidocity visits Snack Dagon back when it was a shack.

Snack Dragon Taco Shack 199 E 3rd St. at Ave B.
Usually open by 6 pm, until 1 am; 4am Fri and Sat