Halal at the source, checked at the counter.

Yes. Naperville Taqueria cooks only with zabiha-halal-certified meats from certified suppliers, and the suppliers’ certificates are on display at the counter inside Naperville Fresh Market — a store whose own specialty is halal meat. The certifying bodies behind those suppliers include the Halal Food Council U.S.A., Halal Transactions of Omaha and the Global Islamic Research Organization (GIRO) of Illinois.

The certification covers the meat, not the restaurant, which is why the certificates are shown at the counter rather than printed on a sign. Every meat on the board — carne asada, pollo, barbacoa, cecina, lengua — comes from that certified supply. Vegetarian options are the veggie taco and the chile relleno, with other vegetarian choices available on request. If you want to read a certificate, ask at the counter.

Zabiha (also written dhabiha) is the Islamic method of slaughter: the animal is slaughtered by a Muslim, with the name of God pronounced, and the blood fully drained. Meat sold as zabiha halal has been slaughtered this way and certified by a halal body that inspects the plant. Naperville Taqueria buys only meat that carries that certification, from suppliers whose certificates are on display at the counter inside Naperville Fresh Market — the store’s own specialty is halal meat. “Halal-certified meats” on this site always means this: certified at the supplier, not a certificate for the restaurant.

Supplier certificates are dated documents that get renewed, so they are kept where they can be read and replaced: at the counter. Ask at the counter and you can read the ones on display, with the certifying body and dates on them. This site names the bodies and does not reproduce the certificates, so that nothing online can fall out of date.