This Mexican-Irish fusion dish was the best thing we ate this week

One-of-a-kind tacos and a reinvented chain restaurant dish most impressed food writer Kara VanDooijeweert this week.

This column publishes on Saturdays, and typically features standout eats from Morris, Essex, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and/or Sussex counties.

I’m currently in my let’s-ask-everyone-where-their-childhood-field-trips-were era.

Approximately two weeks ago, I discovered that I really like hearing about how other people’s public school experiences were different than mine. In Mountain Lakes, where I grew up, we had nine class periods a day (rather than block scheduling), did a dance unit in gym class and stopped having field day after eighth grade. Schools in Ridgewood, though, didn’t necessarily do those things — and that, for whatever reason, has been blowing my mind for at