🌮 Longmont’s Hidden-Gem Taco Guide: Your Picks, Not Ours

Happy Wednesday, Longmont!🧡

Ben here — and your latest poll was spicy. 🌶️ “Hidden Gem Taco Spots” narrowly beat out local trails and live music, which tells me one thing: this town is serious about its tortillas.

To make this guide, I took your poll results and paired them with one of the most passionate local threads on the internet about Longmont tacos — the kind with bold opinions, side quests, and a lot of love for adobada, lengua, and horchata.

Below is your unofficial, extremely local, “argue-with-your-friends” taco short list.

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🌮 The Taco Short List: Longmont Edition

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Winter Market Returns Dec. 6–7

Longmont’s most festive market of the season is back this weekend, running Dec. 6–7 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. at the Boulder County Fairgrounds.

It’s one of the biggest local-only holiday markets in Colorado — with 150 farmers, ranchers, makers, and food producers all under one (very cheerful) roof.

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Catch You Friday, Longmont 💛

Thanks for nerding out about tacos with me — guides like this are my favorite because they’re built straight from your recs, debates, and “you have to try this place” comments.