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Best Carnitas Michoacán in San Francisco
“Pork confited in its own fat in a copper pot. Michoacán answers every question with carnitas.”
What the real thing tastes like
In Michoacán, whole pork is cooked slowly in rendered lard in wide copper cazos — confit before the word arrived — until the meat shreds silky inside and crisps at the edges. Ordering is anatomical: maciza for lean, costilla for rib, cueritos for skin, surtida for faith in the cook. Quiroga's carnitas corridor is a destination in itself.
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The surtida order is the connoisseur's move reviews recommend most — trust the mix, get the crisp-and-silk spectrum. Copper-pot provenance is treated as terroir, and the crackle of cueritos gets its own sentences.
Order it here when it has
- edge crisp
- lard-silk interior
- cut variety
- sunday morning rite
Walk away when you see
- heavy by design
- sells out by noon
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