In France, late night partiers and teenagers often roll into restaurants looking for tortilla-swaddled, fry-filled wraps, tattooed with grill marks, known as French tacos. Far removed from anything in the Mexican culinary canon, French tacos were popularized in Northern African immigrant communities in France, often served with halal meat fillings; it’s something like a cross between a California burrito, a panini, and a shawarma. However, the range of fillings has expanded to include things like chicken cordon bleu, Merguez sausage, and barbecue beef.
In the United States, French tacos are nowhere near as popular. A 2021 New Yorker piece on the popularity of French tacos across the Atlantic
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