Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles
16 years, 10 months ago

Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles

NPR  

Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles toggle caption toggle caption Ben Bergman, NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold gets paid to eat wherever he wants. Maria Melgar owns the Birrieria Guadalajara restaurant in East Los Angeles, which has one of the highest concentrations of taco trucks in the county. "After six o'clock, this restaurant is closed because that's the hour that the catering trucks come in," says Herrera, who's also president of the Greater East Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Back at the Taco Truck Down the street at Tacos El Galuzo, one of many popular taco trucks in the neighborhood, owner Juan Torres sees the situation differently.

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Coronavirus: A Santa Ana taco truck tries to keep the city's lonchera culture going
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: A Santa Ana taco truck tries to keep the city's lonchera culture going

LA Times  

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdown have left many restaurants uncertain about their future. “We’re a taco truck, so hands always get messy for our customers but also us workers,” owner Albert Hernandez said on a recent morning, as customers who just finished shopping at a nearby Northgate Supermarket queued up to order. “But it’s getting hard.” Albert Hernandez, …

Surviving the shutdown: Among the L.A. taqueros
4 years, 11 months ago

Surviving the shutdown: Among the L.A. taqueros

LA Times  

It was the glow that first caught my eye. Truthfully.” I spent two days walking Los Angeles looking for stories of how the coronavirus pandemic was affecting taco businesses. Food L.A.’s beloved taco trucks are in survival mode Not even taco trucks, an emblematic feature of the L.A. culinary landscape, are being spared from the economic fallout of the global …

L.A.’s beloved taco trucks are in survival mode
4 years, 11 months ago

L.A.’s beloved taco trucks are in survival mode

LA Times  

On the evening of March 19, shortly after Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Los Angeles would be placed under a “Safer at Home” ordinance in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the rolling avenues of Boyle Heights were unusually quiet. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The scene was equally grim on nearby Soto Street, where the Tacos El Pecas food …

A beginner’s guide to taco trucks
5 years, 10 months ago

A beginner’s guide to taco trucks

LA Times  

Food Columnist There are few things that better represent the greatness of Los Angeles and our love of constant movement than the taco truck, sometimes called a lonchera, a name that encompasses food trucks of all kinds. Tacos árabes come from the city of Puebla, where immigrants from the Middle East adapted their cooking practices — specifically spit-roasting meat and …

These may be the best tacos in L.A.
6 years, 7 months ago

These may be the best tacos in L.A.

CNN  

Los Angeles, California CNN — Ellen Bennett knows tacos. Alexander Rosen and Robert Sevilla “You have to get the queso because it’s really fantastic,” Bennett says of her favorite Texas-style soft taco spot, HomeState. She earned her seat at the table and a lot of people were like ‘Good luck!’ I personally understand the feeling of people telling you “Good …

Where to get tacos and more great Mexican food from Jonathan Gold’s 101
8 years, 5 months ago

Where to get tacos and more great Mexican food from Jonathan Gold’s 101

LA Times  

Of the many terrific places to eat on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants, where can you go for a great taco or a bowl of fideo, maybe pescado zarandeado or aguachile, Sonora-style cooking or a Paloma cocktail? Guerrilla Tacos Guerrilla Tacos is perhaps the most vivid illustration of what is possible in Los Angeles, a chef who worked with the …

4 held in string of taco truck holdups
15 years, 7 months ago

4 held in string of taco truck holdups

LA Times  

A tagging crew has robbed at least 22 taco truck vendors at gunpoint over the last three months along busy commercial streets in East L.A., sheriff’s detectives said Thursday. The robberies have rattled the taco truck community, and officials said some vendors have been reluctant to report them for fear of retaliation from the tagging crew as well as problems …

Taco trucks can stay parked
16 years, 6 months ago

Taco trucks can stay parked

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer Taco trucks are back in full force -- at least for now. The language of the ordinance, Judge Dennis A. Aichroth said, was “vague” and therefore “unconstitutional” in its description of how quickly a vendor could return to an area where the truck was previously parked. The attorney who won the case on behalf of Margarita Garcia, …

On a taco truck bandwagon
16 years, 10 months ago

On a taco truck bandwagon

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer “Carne Asada Is Not a Crime,” proclaims a website that has suddenly caught fire to rally food lovers across Los Angeles in defense of the iconic taco truck, now in the sights of a government crackdown. Their website has also declared this evening to be Taco Truck Night, calling on residents to turn out to “support your …

East L.A. taco truck owners say they’ll stay put
16 years, 11 months ago

East L.A. taco truck owners say they’ll stay put

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer Taco truck owners vowed to ignore a law passed by Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday making it a misdemeanor crime -- punishable by fines and jail -- to stay parked in one place for more than an hour. “They can try to move us, but we’re not going to go,” said Aleida De La Cruz, whose taco …

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