La Vaca Birria: #1 for "Birria Tacos" on Grubhub and Uber Eats
In the Mission, the most crowded taqueria neighborhood in San Francisco, one birria shop held #1 for its signature dish on two apps, and #1 for "burrito" on Uber Eats.
La Vaca Birria is a taqueria on 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, a neighborhood with more taquerias per block than almost anywhere in the country. Its menu is built around birria: Quesabirria Tacos, Birria Taco, and a Grilled Cheese Burrito. We followed two keywords: its signature, "birria tacos", and the broadest Mission search there is, "burrito".
Birria tacos: #1 on Grubhub
On Grubhub, "birria tacos" returned 279 results near La Vaca. It started at #3, moved to #2, and from the fifth check onward it was #1 every day: 22 of 26 checks in total. Below it on the latest check were El Alambre, Tacos El Patron and Taqueria Leon.
Grubhub
“birria tacos”
- Latest
- #1
- Best
- #1
- Found
- 26 of 26 checks
- Results
- 279
Rank on that day (higher is better)
Top of the list on Oct 19, 2026
- #2 El Alambre
- #3 Tacos El Patron Birria Taco
- #6 Taqueria Leon Taco Birria
- #22 Estrella Taqueria taco Birria
Birria tacos: #1 on Uber Eats
Uber Eats tells the same story. La Vaca was #1 on 23 of 24 checks, with its Quesabirria as the matched item.
Uber Eats
“birria tacos”
- Latest
- #1
- Best
- #1
- Found
- 24 of 24 checks
- Results
- 79
Rank on that day (higher is better)
Burrito: #1 on Uber Eats
"Burrito" is about as competitive as a delivery search gets in the Mission. On Uber Eats, La Vaca was #1 for it on 20 of 22 checks, with its Grilled Cheese Burrito as the matched item.
Uber Eats
“burrito”
- Latest
- #1
- Best
- #1
- Found
- 20 of 22 checks
- Results
- 79
Rank on that day (higher is better) No rank recorded that day Not checked in full that day
What La Vaca does well
- It is named after its signature dish. A restaurant called La Vaca Birria, selling Quesabirria Tacos and Birria Taco, is an easy match for "birria tacos".
- Plain, searchable item names. "Grilled Cheese Burrito" contains the word "burrito", and that is the item Uber Eats put at #1.
- Consistency across apps. #1 for its signature dish on both Grubhub and Uber Eats, week after week.
See the PEO guide for what the top-ranked shops have in common.