Taqueria Cocoyoc’s cemita de barbacoa enchilada is packed with spicy goat.

Last week I had the pleasure of appearing on Shari Bayer’s radio show “All in The Industry.” We talked about many things, including how I became a food writer and The Catskills Comes to Queens. (You can listen to the episiode here.) All that talking made me rather hungry. The Heritage Radio Network studio is located within Roberta’s, but somehow I wasn’t in the mood for Italian. So I ventured deeper into Bushwick on a taco tip from a friend.Taqueria Cocoyoc has such an overabundance  of tacos—20 in all—that I was thoroughly confused, and wound up with a sandwich instead. OK, fine, I wasn’t confused, I just had a hankering for a Mexican sandwich, especially after reading the words “barbacoa enchilada cemita.” The idea of a sandwich packed with spicy goat meat proved irresistible.

Barbacoa de chivo—barbacoa for short—tender baby goat, is seldom seen on sandwiches in Queens. Cocoyoc’s was liberally seasoned with peppers and had a nice building heat. They weren’t shy about the papalo either. The bright lemony herb, along with the sesame studded roll, makes a cemita a cemita. It was a hearty, spicy gut bomb of sandwich. If I lived closer I’d eat one every week.

Taqueria Cocoyoc, 211 Wyckoff Ave., Bushwick, 718-497-4489