Three for the Weekend, January 10

A new and remarkable West Village sandwich shop and a trek to East Elmhurst for French pastries of a distinguished sort

At El Lado: migas on a flour tortilla, and eggs and chorizo on a corn tortilla

This weekly column will appear every Friday, in which I’ll suggest fun dining spots, worth devoting to your leisure time on the weekend. Places recently opened get special emphasis, as do long-forgotten chestnuts still superb. Many places feature corollary attractions, such as hikes, museums, eminent architecture, and neighborhoods distinguished by their unique feel.

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New Tex Mex breakfast and lunch tacos in Astoria

El Lado Taco has been open only three weeks and is already attracting neighborhood regulars. Ceramic tiles, potted cactuses, red metal chairs, and silk screened prints of wrestling masks, agave, and ears of corn provide decoration. Two menus are available, one for breakfast tacos with eight choices (8 a.m. to 3 p.m.); the other for lunch and dinner tacos with six choices (11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.). Tacos are $3.25 to $6.25, mostly bunched toward the lower end of the price range.

Basically, the place does only tacos. And here’s the amazing part: all tacos are made with corn or flour tortillas hand-fashioned to order — meaning the tortilla in your taco is near perfect.