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You Can Get Married At This Pompano Beach Taqueria

Serve wedding food people actually want

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Matt Meltzer
Jul 02, 2026
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Wedding food, as a general rule, is awful. Your choices are usually a prime rib ripped straight from the buffet at Circus Circus, or a chicken breast someone cruelly named “airline,” just so everyone knows to expect the kind of food they served on Braniff. For all this gourmet mediocrity, the lucky couple gets to shell out $175 a plate, $250 with an open bar.

But ask the guests, and everyone would be happier with tacos.

Well, what if I told you there’s a magical place just south of the Pompano Beach harness track, where instead of bland, overpriced wedding food your guests can feast on guacamole and authentic carne asada? It’s called Tacos el Papi, and when it’s not filled with hungry locals cooling off with margaritas, it doubles as a wedding venue where the food is all stuff people actually like.

Is this like Broward’s version of the Taco Bell Cantina with a wedding chapel in Vegas?

Not quite. Can the bridal party pregame with margaritas before the ceremony? Absolut…

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