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Exit Interview: Perbacco chef Staffan Terje

A Swedish chef in San Francisco running an Italian restaurant comes to cook Cal-Mexican for Tacolicious’s farmers market stand. Hooray for America.

First taco memory?
Being from Sweden, unfortunately it was at Taco Bell. Also, although it’s not a true taco, in Sweden, we make something similar called a…

Taco World: We’re in Food & Wine mag!

It’s funny how things happen. When we launched Tacolicious we had no idea that there would be a national taco trend. But the May issue of Food & Wine magazine has made a very convincing case for it—just in time for Cinco de Mayo, of course—and we’re included! 
You can see the…

Postcard from LA

Down in LA for my good friend Danielle’s wedding, Joe and I were lucky enough to be put up at the fancy Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows. We pulled our bug-splattered Subaru station wagon through the fancy gates where a battery of valets awaited us under the hotel’s famous Bay…

Chef Mark Denham: The Exit Interview

Mark Denham, former chef of Laiola (may it rest in peace) and many other fine restaurants, is working hard to open his new restaurant, Bishop. We can’t wait.
What’s your first taco memory?
As kids my mom made us tacos with the store-bought crunchy shells, ground beef with ‘taco seasoning’, yellow cheese…

Chef Robbie Lewis: The Exit Interview

What’s your first taco memory?
There was this place “Casa Bonita” that my family would go to when I was a kid. It was completely cheesy, like a theme park inside with robotic sombero wearing puppet guys and parrots that would pop out of the pseudo-hacienda windows. If I finished my…