Taco Throwdown takes over Daley Plaza during Food Truck Friday
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The taco takeover was on at Daley Plaza on Friday.
Several local taco restaurants threw down their best dishes in the competition. It was all part of the city's weekly Food Truck Friday Fest.
Visitors had the chance to taste and vote for their favorite taco, so between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. the city said hungry Loop dwellers cast more than 1,000 votes.
The winner was Caseras, which has bragging rights as the people's choice.
The city hopes events like the taco competition will bring more people out to the truck fest and, therefore boost business for local restaurants trying to rebuild post-pandemic.
"When you look at the industry as a whole - then we have our special niche, which is our food trucks. And that's why the department decided to have the food truck fest really to try to uplift the food truck operators," said BACP Commissioner Kenneth Meyer.