Our story
A little piece of Mexicoin East Texas.
Liberty City, Texas · 2020 – 2025
A small weekend taqueria on the access road, built on one idea: cook the street food of Mexico properly, and give people somewhere worth sitting down.
- Opened
- 2020
- Where
- Liberty City, Texas
- Meats
- Pollo · Al pastor · Bistek
- Out back
- El Patio
- Closed
- 19 July 2025
“Order 4 or more and get a free smile!”
The shop
Doc’s Taco Shop opened in Liberty City in 2020 — a small weekend eatery on the access road, just down from Dairy Queen past Hog Eye Self Storage. It ran for close to five years.
The room was full of antique memorabilia and the atmosphere was deliberately unhurried. Out back was El Patio, a covered deck under string lights where bands played most weekends, which meant the place regularly served groups rather than couples.
The food stayed narrow on purpose. Three meats — pollo, al pastor and bistek — ran across the entire board, from the street tacos to the torta, the quesadillas and the burrito. Running one chicken, one pork and one beef across a whole menu is a small-kitchen discipline, and it is why a short board covered so much ground.
Doc’s closed permanently on 19 July 2025. What follows is a record of what it served, read from the shop’s own menu board.
The taco
Five things, and nothing else.
The build never changed in five years.
- 01Corn tortillaSmall, soft, and the reason the rest of it works.
- 02Choice of meatOne per taco — pollo, al pastor or bistek. Never a mixture.
- 03Diced onionRaw and fine, for sharpness against the fat.
- 04CilantroChopped, generously.
- 05CabbageThe local wrinkle. Common across northern Mexico and the Texas border, and it holds its crunch where lettuce wilts.
Five years
2020
Doc’s opens on the access road in Liberty City, serving weekends only.
2023
The menu board photographed here is printed — the most complete surviving record of what the shop served.
2025
Doc’s closes permanently on 19 July, after close to five years.
For the record
The board, as it was printed.
209 N. Access Rd, Kilgore, Texas
Doc’s stood in Liberty City, just down from Dairy Queen past Hog Eye Self Storage. It closed on 19 July 2025 and is not trading.
The August 2023 menu board survives in full, transcribed and dated so the prices on it are never mistaken for current ones.
