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Coffee With a Cop Gets a Birria Taco Truck

Tacos Las Catrina's is parking outside Summit Coffee Ballantyne for the September 25 gathering, with birria tacos on the menu.

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Nell Thomas· Community Writer, Strolling Ballantyne
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A ticket-style graphic headed by the Tacos Las Catrina's logo, reading Summit Coffee Ballantyne, Coffee With a Cop, Friday September 25, 9 to 11 AM, kitchen Tacos Las Catrina's, free to attend, coffee and food for sale.

Coffee with a Cop is a standing invitation. Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spend a couple of hours at Summit Coffee on Conlan Circle, and anyone who lives nearby can turn up and talk to them.

On Friday, September 25, there will also be birria.

Birria is meat, usually beef, slow-cooked in chiles until it shreds, and it often arrives as a taco you dip back into the cooking broth. It is not ordinary nine-in-the-morning food.

Tacos Las Catrina's, a birria taco truck based in Monroe, is parking outside the shop for the morning, and lists birria first among the things it makes. Brynn Dombroski, the N2 Company area director who organizes the gatherings, booked it.

The Tacos Las Catrina's birria taco truck, wrapped in lime green with Day of the Dead artwork and a painted menu board

Tacos run $1 to $3, quesadillas $10 to $12, and burritos $12 to $14.

The rest is what it always is. No agenda, no speeches, no sign-up. Officers and neighbors connecting over coffee, building a stronger community together.

Coffee with a Cop

  • When: Friday, September 25, 9 to 11 a.m.
  • Where: Summit Coffee Ballantyne, 13743 Conlan Circle, Suite 101
  • Cost: Free to attend. Coffee and food are available for purchase from the shop and the truck.

Details are on our events calendar.

Come hungry.

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Nell Thomas

Community Writer, Strolling Ballantyne

Community writer and features editor for Strolling Ballantyne, covering local businesses, wellness, dining, and neighborhood life in the Ballantyne area of south Charlotte.

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