Prix Fixe Podcast

Alex Garcia and Elvia Huerta of 'Evil Cooks' (S2)

Episode Summary

Alex Garcia and Elvia Huerta own and operate 'Evil Cooks' a death metal themed pop up experience based in Los Angeles. They describe it as “new-traditional Mexican food with an evil twist." With shades of fine dining on the streets. Their “HELL MENU” contains items such as “the Prince of Darkness burrito”, “chilla(kill)es torta”, the McSatan bacon cheeseburger taco. They even offer a reservations-only Kamikaze prix fixe menu cementing their boundless creativity in showing you how exciting better tasting food can be.

Episode Notes

Alex Garcia and Elvia Huerta own and operate 'Evil Cooks' a death metal themed pop up experience based in Los Angeles. They describe it as “new-traditional Mexican food with an evil twist." With shades of fine dining on the streets. Their “HELL MENU” contains items such as “the Prince of Darkness burrito”, “chilla(kill)es torta”, the McSatan bacon cheeseburger taco. They even offer a reservations-only Kamikaze prix fixe menu cementing their boundless creativity in showing you how exciting better tasting food can be.

Links:

Evil Cooks

Evil Cooks IG

The Dark Side of the Cooks El Podcast (Alex and Elvia's podcast)

LA Times' 101 List (2022 edition featuring Evil Cooks)

Brujeria

Episode Transcription

00:00:02:22 - 00:00:35:01

Elvia

People tend to get really mad. People tend to get really mad when people try to innovate. a taco. They get so upset like, you can't. You can't call that el pastor because it's not this way. We have to evolve. Food is the same way. And, we're artists. We like to piss off your grandmother. Also, people who don't follow us or don't know us think it's like a third or fourth generation Mexican.

 

00:00:35:03 - 00:00:37:05

Elvia

And when in reality, it's.

 

00:00:37:07 - 00:00:50:07

Alex

An illegal who came here. There are people that are not used to change. And we're here to change their mind.

 

00:00:50:09 - 00:01:21:06

Jordan Haro

Welcome to the Prix Fixe Podcast, where the new voices in the culinary world share their stories in their own words. The show is produced and edited by me, Jordan Haro in Los Angeles, California. Ultimately, I will remove my side of the conversation and let the guests tell their story in their own words. After a combined 35 years of working in the culinary industry, Alex Garcia and Elvia Huerta decided to do something a little evil during the pandemic and thus Evil Cooks was born in their El Sereno driveway.

 

00:01:21:08 - 00:01:42:15

Jordan Haro

Evil cooks is many things at once. They describe it as new traditional Mexican food with an evil twist. That evil twist is exactly what drew me into them. The aesthetic of their project is dipped in a death metal sheen, with which they have a lot of fun with making their ‘Hell menu’. items like the Prince of Darkness burrito, Chila-kill-es torta

 

00:01:42:20 - 00:02:07:06

Jordan Haro

It's spelled k, I, l l, the McSatan bacon cheeseburger, taco, or with their reservations only kamikaze prix fixe menu. They also make my favorite taco in LA, their black pastor is truly something profound. But make no mistake, this is no marketing ploy. Elvia and Alex are world class chefs who chose to combine the high and low on their terms the way they want.

 

00:02:07:08 - 00:02:30:12

Jordan Haro

And despite their evil branding, Elvia and Alex are exceptionally kind people with a lot of gratitude for their recent success. Sitting down to chat with them is especially cool because they're my neighbors. They're in walking distance from where I live, which makes for a delightful way to spice up a dog walk when they're open on weekends. And if this episode resonates with you, give their podcast The Dark Side of the Cooks a listen or go eat their awesome food and if you get lost, just look for the giant Grim Reaper holding a scythe. Let’s listen in.

 

00:02:30:12 - 00:02:38:10

Jordan Haro

 

 

00:02:38:12 - 00:02:45:04

Elvia

My name is Elvia, born and raised in L.A. and co-owner of Evil Cooks.

 

00:02:45:06 - 00:02:54:03

Alex

Hey. What's up? My name is Alex. I'm the cook on the pop up. Evil cooks.

 

00:02:54:05 - 00:02:57:03

Jordan Haro

And where does your story begin?

 

00:02:57:05 - 00:03:01:12

Elvia

Well, it begins in Long Beach for Alex.

 

00:03:01:14 - 00:03:31:17

Alex

when I came from Mexico, I end up, living in Long Beach for a good 17 years. And I don’t know like, I've been in the industry for, like, a good time already. It's going to be, like, 20 years already in the industry. And, I always wanted to do something. Done by me, you know? And, I started drawing and I started a company called Evil Cooks, and it was just mainly shirts for cooks.

 

00:03:31:19 - 00:03:58:22

Alex

And from there, people already knew me and they started asking for food. So that's when we started doing all these crazy things. and call it same name: Evil cooks, the pop up. I'm from Queretaro, Mexico. That's in central Mexico, probably three hours away from Mexico City. Both sides of my family are bakers, and I've been working since I was five, in in the family business.

 

00:03:59:00 - 00:04:25:17

Alex

And I am, kind of rebel. I don't like the, the, like, precise things about, baking. So I was trying to do something else. So I started, like, being a selling bread in the streets to Mexico. And I really like to sell stuffs, you know, and, some of my aunts used to cook, like, for a living doing tamales, all that kind of stuff in the streets.

 

00:04:25:19 - 00:04:30:18

Alex

So I think that's where I picked up the selling on the streets.

 

00:04:30:20 - 00:05:00:04

Elvia

I guess I have like the opposite story, where it wasn't because my mom was such a great cook, it was because she did the same thing over and over every week. That made me want to do or want to learn something different. And I tried doing the whole college thing and it just wasn't for me. So, I remember seeing a commercial on TV about Le Cordon Bleu and I was like, fuck it.

 

00:05:00:04 - 00:05:33:15

Elvia

I told my sister, like, help me out. Help me like, fill this thing out. And and from there, it wasn't what it was or, I mean, I still loved it, but they, painted this whole different picture about the culinary industry that was not, reality. It was not reality. But, you know, I graduated, I, you know, I worked around the city and ended up, working at UCLA in their, kitchen mass production.

 

00:05:33:15 - 00:06:10:09

Elvia

And I was there for, ten years. And, I felt stuck. I was content, it was paying my bills. I was still cooking, but I wasn't truly happy. And, had been following Alex on Instagram for a while, and one day I just dmed him and I was like, I want to, like, pick your brain, right? I wanted to, get out there in the industry, find other cooks, find an inspiration to or find that spark of why I fell in love with cooking.

 

00:06:10:09 - 00:06:34:17

Elvia

And like, he did that, he told me the whole concept of evil cooks and know his shirts. And, you know, I stuck onto him like a piece of gum and still is. Yeah, I'm still there. And then, you know, people were asking for food, so I was like, fuck it, let's do it. And, I did it while working.

 

00:06:34:19 - 00:06:40:11

Alex

And then for a good year, chef working at UCLA. And you will cook long shifts.

 

00:06:40:11 - 00:06:56:21

Elvia

Long shifts and finally, I had the courage to leave it and fully, devote myself to evil cooks. And it's been it's been a blessing. The the way they sold it to me was like, oh, hell yeah. Like, you're.

 

00:06:56:21 - 00:06:58:18

Alex

Going to make this much money.

 

00:06:58:22 - 00:06:59:05

Elvia

But.

 

00:06:59:09 - 00:07:05:12

Alex

You're going to go out and be the chef and conquer the world when it's not the truth.

 

00:07:05:18 - 00:07:09:04

Elvia

But I was young and I didn't know better.

 

00:07:09:06 - 00:07:29:18

Alex

I think cooking school is really good when it comes to show you the basics. I didn't went to school, when I ended up here in the US. I ended up working in a kitchen as a dishwasher. So from there, I started, like, my process to learning. I used to go to the library to all these, places where they sell books.

 

00:07:29:18 - 00:07:59:22

Alex

I use read for free and, so basically I taught myself some things and some other things that I picked up from the, for, for from my friends in the kitchen. So I think the difference between, that and culinary school is that culinary school tells you, oh, you're going to do this and do that. They they're you selling you, but they're not a they're not putting you out there to the reality where you really experience and gaining the experience that they're promising.

 

00:08:00:00 - 00:08:13:17

Elvia

I've gained all my experience through through doing what we're doing right now. I feel like he's my mentor and he's taught me a lot, taught me things that I didn't really learn.

 

00:08:13:17 - 00:08:16:15

Alex

But it's still like I learned things from her like that.

 

00:08:16:15 - 00:08:17:21

Elvia

I, I think we go like, this.

 

00:08:17:22 - 00:08:23:21

Alex

Is the chance to learn, you know, like, in their culinary school.

 

00:08:23:23 - 00:08:27:13

Jordan Haro

so you DM'd him on Instagram?

 

00:08:27:15 - 00:08:30:18

Elvia

I slid into his DM’s.

 

00:08:30:20 - 00:08:41:00

Jordan Haro

And. Yeah. Like where? What? Walk me. How where did everything lead from? From the DM. Like, what was next?

 

00:08:41:02 - 00:08:41:12

Alex

We ended up meeting.

 

00:08:41:13 - 00:09:02:00

Elvia

Meeting we ended up meeting. Hanging around. Hanging out. he at that time, he was working at a restaurant, and they were doing a lot of, events around L.A. he's like, if you're down to, like, really do it, like for free. For free. I was like, fuck it. Like, so I, I stuck to him, did a few events.

 

00:09:02:03 - 00:09:25:15

Alex

Events, then then I started doing, pop ups in my house, like, prix fixe pop ups. And it was just mainly based on tacos, like, from, starter to dessert. So that's when I challenge her to do something I was doing already. A lot of dessert tacos, and I told her, “Can you be able to do a dessert taco?”

 

00:09:25:15 - 00:09:34:11

Alex

That's when she started putting her $0.02 into evil cooks. And from there, like you, when they.

 

00:09:34:13 - 00:09:58:11

Elvia

And that's when that's how the flan taco came about. it's totally different from when we first did it to what it is now. It's evolved. But I remember being in the back dock at work, smoking a cigarette and just thinking like, what do you like? Like what do you. I didn't know what a dessert taco was. That's so weird.

 

00:09:58:12 - 00:09:58:20

Elvia

 

 

00:09:58:20 - 00:10:02:00

Alex

All she knew was the choco chocolate taco.

 

00:10:02:02 - 00:10:26:19

Elvia

Yeah. So then I was like, all right. Like, everyone loves flan. Let's put a custard on there. At first I thought I said, creme brulee, Yeah, but we did the flan. it was on a chia tortilla, and then it still had the Polvorón on the coconut. The, zest.

 

00:10:26:19 - 00:10:47:15

Alex

From there tortillas have evolved a lot like we started doing something different called hybrid tortillas.. Yeah. When we start, like, mixing, corn and flour, that way, we get, like, I was saying, like, it's like a threesome between, pancake, a crepe and a tortilla. So that's what we wanted to achieve. And I think.

 

00:10:47:15 - 00:10:48:21

Elvia

We we got it

 

00:10:48:21 - 00:10:50:00

Alex

Got it. It.

 

00:10:50:02 - 00:10:53:09

Elvia

Yeah.

 

00:10:53:11 - 00:11:20:04

Jordan Haro

you already had the evil cook's brand going in some iteration before, but, like, what was the what was the idea with the pop up, like, where, where the. The branding, but also like, how it mixes it like them from the black pastor to like the metal, like everything that from the like the grim Reaper outside.

 

00:11:20:07 - 00:11:25:02

Elvia

So when we first started Evil Cooks, it was not what it is now.

 

00:11:25:04 - 00:11:45:12

Alex

No. Personally. Personally, for me, it was more like, I was already at that time, I was like 15 years in, in the, in the industry. So I was making money for a lot of people and giving my ideas for free. So I was like, you know what? Like, I'm tired of this. I'm tired of paperwork. I'm tired of being in an office.

 

00:11:45:12 - 00:12:02:01

Alex

I'm trying to be the chef. So I just want freedom somehow. And we didn't think that it was going to be like this. Like it has evolved since the beginning. At the beginning was like, let's just go to the market and find whatever we can find and make something out of it. Like it was like.

 

00:12:02:07 - 00:12:10:16

Elvia

So every weekend it was a different menu. The menus were never consistent. People complained. They're like, man, I came here.

 

00:12:10:16 - 00:12:12:04

Alex

For for the Taco.

 

00:12:12:05 - 00:12:25:09

Elvia

- that you had last week. It's like, oh man, but we have this today. Try it out. And they're like, all right. And it was constant, constant until I think it was 2019 when Chronicles came out.

 

00:12:25:14 - 00:12:48:07

Alex

Taco Chronicles came out on Netflix. So. So it was a really coincidence that my stepdad is from Yucatan, Mexico, and he taught me how to make Recado Negro. That's what we used for our marinade to marinate our pork and Taco Chronicles came out and they were using that. So we're like, oh shit let's do that as a special for Halloween.

 

00:12:48:08 - 00:13:10:06

Alex

Like it goes perfect with the theme of our pop up, and let's do it. And we reach out to the chef in Mexico who was doing it and asked for permission to do it here in L.A. he was like, go for it. So we started doing it then. People love it, so they start asking for it and asking them, asking and coming, coming back for it like more often.

 

00:13:10:08 - 00:13:11:16

Elvia

So then that's when we decided.

 

00:13:11:17 - 00:13:13:13

Alex

We decided to keep it in the.

 

00:13:13:13 - 00:13:18:21

Elvia

Menu and create an actual menu, a consistent menu. I think that's when it started.

 

00:13:18:23 - 00:13:42:22

Alex

Yeah. Now, now we have a set menu. we have actually it's two menus. We call it Heaven and Hell. we have, Hell is basically meats and heaven is, all the vegetables. So, now we have those menus, but we get created with our, like, fucking secret menu, the fucking secret menu where we can, like, get creative with something every week

 

00:13:43:00 - 00:14:11:09

Elvia

Yeah, we're like, our tater tots will do, our chilaquiles tots, which is instead of, the chips, we coat the tater tots with the salsa and put all the fixings on it. So it. Our secret menu lets us keep being creative without having to. Or with still pleasing people with our menu, but so giving us a chance to put something out there.

 

00:14:11:11 - 00:14:16:11

Jordan Haro

How are y'all, like, auditioning these ideas that we can, like, are y'all just like, oh, what if I do a.

 

00:14:16:14 - 00:14:17:23

Elvia

At night.

 

00:14:18:01 - 00:14:38:21

Alex

I don't know, it's weird. It's like an artist. Like, I consider cooking like an art. So, you know, when you feel like, inspired, you just write and write all these ideas and execute it. Next day when you you're in the front of the grill. And, that's how we do it. Basically. I tell her, like, I have this idea, I remember this flavor from my childhood.

 

00:14:38:21 - 00:14:42:12

Alex

Let me, let me make it happen. And and that's how it happens.

 

00:14:42:14 - 00:14:46:01

Elvia

Or just, during a shift by accident. Yeah.

 

00:14:46:02 - 00:14:54:16

Alex

Like we get hungry, we get we we make something and it happens. So basically, like anything good in life, they're accidents.

 

00:14:54:18 - 00:15:00:18

Jordan Haro

And so yeah, the black pastor is, is one of the main stays. what else is on the set menu?

 

00:15:00:20 - 00:15:10:03

Elvia

our green chorizo, which is made in-house. He grinds the pork. grinds all the, herbs, herbs. And then we have that and.

 

00:15:10:03 - 00:15:29:13

Alex

They have the octopus. The octopus people gets crazy with the octopus and we use the same marinade, just different protein. And what else? The chila-kill-es. people. A lot of people come from the chila-kill-es for the chila-kill-es burrito, chila-kill-es torta So I think that's, that's a must try.

 

00:15:29:15 - 00:15:31:22

Elvia

And then our new item our Megadeth.

 

00:15:31:22 - 00:15:32:15

Alex

The Megadeath.

 

00:15:32:16 - 00:15:33:13

Elvia

Which is like.

 

00:15:33:15 - 00:15:34:21

Alex

It's a 2 pound torta.

 

00:15:34:23 - 00:15:40:09

Elvia

2 pound torta. I wonder if someone's eaten, like.

 

00:15:40:11 - 00:15:43:11

Alex

I haven’t seen anyone.

 

00:15:43:13 - 00:15:48:12

Elvia

I'd love to see that though, because that's a monster. That's big.

 

00:15:48:14 - 00:15:52:21

Jordan Haro

Y'all have the operation out your house. How long have you been doing that for?

 

00:15:52:22 - 00:15:54:21

Elvia

It's going to be two years. In two years?

 

00:15:54:23 - 00:15:55:23

Alex

Two years in May.

 

00:15:55:23 - 00:16:05:15

Elvia

So I was, eight months pregnant when he's like, let's just do it out of the house. And I was like, it's better than having to go out there because, you.

 

00:16:05:15 - 00:16:17:22

Alex

Know, they're in pandemic. You have to be inside the house. And I was like, going crazy. I needed to do something to move around, to create something.

 

00:16:18:00 - 00:16:20:09

Elvia

So then he's like, let's make jam and sell it.

 

00:16:20:10 - 00:16:38:19

Alex

And we started doing our, Hibiscus Jam, and we started selling it at Sara’s Market and from our house. And it was doing good. from that I started doing mole from scratch. And and it was selling good too. So we're like, fuck it. Let's just put the tent out there and see if we can sell some tacos.

 

00:16:38:20 - 00:16:55:15

Elvia

Because he had been wanting to do it for a long time. And I was like, no, no. Like we live on a busy street. Eastern is like super busy and we live right on the curve. And I was like, people aren't going to stop. Like, if I had to park far, it's like, I wouldn't want to go.

 

00:16:55:17 - 00:17:02:19

Alex

But and that's the thing, like if you think about it like it's a park around the corner, like you have a lot of parking space.

 

00:17:02:19 - 00:17:03:03

Elvia

You could eat at the park.

 

00:17:03:03 - 00:17:08:16

Alex

Eat in the park. So it's a lot of good things about it. Yeah.

 

00:17:08:18 - 00:17:17:21

Jordan Haro

Just like for people who don't know, like whenever I tell people like, oh, “El Sereno” They're like, where? Like where? Describe El Sereno. describe where y'all live.

 

00:17:17:23 - 00:17:19:09

Elvia

I like to say “El Ser-ay-no”.

 

00:17:19:09 - 00:17:37:05

Alex

No, let me explain. I'm not from here. I just came to El Sereno because of her, so I never knew anything else. And I was the same way. Like people used to tell me. Like I'm from El Sereno - where’s El Sereno? I don't know where’s El Sereno! So it’s basically Northeast LA and I always tell people like the border with ham, Alhambra and-

 

00:17:37:05 - 00:17:42:20

Elvia

South Pasadena, what else? Lincoln Park. So you're at the end of the 710.

 

00:17:43:00 - 00:17:47:13

Alex

There you go. I always say 710.

 

00:17:47:15 - 00:17:48:09

Elvia

Cal State LA. So that's it?

 

00:17:48:11 - 00:17:48:18

Alex

Yeah.

 

00:17:48:20 - 00:17:49:23

Elvia

That’s El Sereno. Yeah, it.

 

00:17:49:23 - 00:17:51:18

Alex

It’s a small-

 

00:17:51:20 - 00:17:52:10

Elvia

Community.

 

00:17:52:11 - 00:18:01:05

Alex

Community. El Sereno. You see it from the map like it's a small community. That's why a lot of people don't know about it.

 

00:18:01:07 - 00:18:05:11

Elvia

But supposedly El Sereno was one of the first little communities of L.A.

 

00:18:05:13 - 00:18:08:21

Alex

I will describe it like you.

 

00:18:08:21 - 00:18:10:01

Elvia

I want to see chaos.

 

00:18:10:01 - 00:18:10:10

Alex

Chaos.

 

00:18:10:12 - 00:18:23:11

Elvia

Okay. When we like that peak at our peak of being fucking busy, the line literally wrapped around and went up the hill. That's that's crazy.

 

00:18:23:11 - 00:18:33:06

Alex

So it was crazy. Was like people were like, what's going on? Like, are they giving, free Covid 19 shots or what? Like some people say.

 

00:18:33:06 - 00:18:34:16

Elvia

They're like, yeah, like what's going on?

 

00:18:34:18 - 00:18:38:00

Alex

The test right there. And now we're selling food.

 

00:18:38:00 - 00:18:46:10

Elvia

And everyone was respecting, you know, the whole Covid mask. No one really got crazy.

 

00:18:46:12 - 00:18:55:23

Alex

No one got crazy. Probably we had like a couple incidents where like homeless, one homeless. I don't think he was a homeless. He was just standing in line with a machete in his hand.

 

00:18:56:01 - 00:18:57:08

Elvia

And people were like, oh man!

 

00:18:57:10 - 00:19:08:02

Alex

So, I think that was the craziest thing. Other than that, just probably crazy people stopping right in front, like telling us like, can you guys not use that language here?

 

00:19:08:03 - 00:19:13:22

Elvia

Oh, yeah. Because we have a sign that's right in front of our driveway. It says, don't fucking park here or don't stop here.

 

00:19:13:23 - 00:19:15:09

Alex

Don't park here. Don't be an asshole.

 

00:19:15:10 - 00:19:16:05

Elvia

Don't be an asshole.

 

00:19:16:05 - 00:19:17:22

Alex

Park at the park.

 

00:19:18:01 - 00:19:27:17

Elvia

Yeah. And this little old lady stopped and was like, you people are rude or I don't know what she said. I'm like, lady, don't stop. Like, keep going.

 

00:19:27:20 - 00:19:29:09

Alex

Yeah, we get a lot of that.

 

00:19:29:11 - 00:19:34:19

Elvia

It's a busy street. It's a little scary just because we live on the curve. And man, there's those crazy drivers.

 

00:19:34:19 - 00:19:40:01

Alex

Like, they they speed up there. Yeah. And you never know. We don't want anyone to get hurt.

 

00:19:40:03 - 00:19:50:12

Jordan Haro

I haven't seen a taco operation anywhere that is, like, so committed to like like like - the concept.

 

00:19:50:12 - 00:20:10:03

Elvia

Just wait. We have. It's about to get bigger, you know, or crazy ideas. Everybody is going to get crazier. I think it comes down to music. it's our taste of music. We listen, we we like the same type of music, but then I'm more into, like, the dark wave 80s. He's into his.

 

00:20:10:03 - 00:20:29:16

Alex

Like, now I'm older and I don't wear my vest every day like I used to. Or my black Vans But yeah, I think because, we love music. in high school, I used to play in a band. she used to play the bass too. So I think is because of that, like, it comes from our taste of music.

 

00:20:29:18 - 00:20:32:16

Alex

And still we like everything. But it makes it metal.

 

00:20:32:16 - 00:20:50:15

Elvia

It makes it easier to keep within the genre of what we are with our music and the grim Reaper. His name is Panchito. We give him a name. he had no face. It was just a black, you know, just.

 

00:20:50:17 - 00:20:52:02

Alex

Like he was a black face.

 

00:20:52:05 - 00:20:54:17

Elvia

No, they had no face was just like.

 

00:20:54:19 - 00:20:57:00

Alex

He’s like a devil or something, like, I don't know, we found it.

 

00:20:57:02 - 00:21:05:08

Elvia

But, we were at Home Depot, and he's like, I want that. And I was like. Like, no, dude, it's like another thing to put up.

 

00:21:05:08 - 00:21:10:00

Alex

And he was expensive. I'm like, fuck. Fuck it, I guess let's lower the panties and buy it.

 

00:21:10:04 - 00:21:15:11

Elvia

You know, but then you ask like, do you guys have another one? And the girl was like, that's the display one.

 

00:21:15:13 - 00:21:18:10

Alex

So we got a huge discount because he was a display one.

 

00:21:18:12 - 00:21:24:21

Elvia

Yeah. And he's like, well, I'll just take it down myself with the girl is like no like don't.

 

00:21:24:23 - 00:21:40:00

Alex

And we and they had mask of The Misfits laying around and I was like, I'm going to put it on like it goes perfect with the lettering that we use the misfits letter. And that's Panchito right there. And he's still there.

 

00:21:40:02 - 00:21:41:15

Elvia

We don't put him at home.

 

00:21:41:17 - 00:21:42:09

Alex

That often.

 

00:21:42:09 - 00:21:47:00

Elvia

But it's mostly at Smorg because, people like to take pictures with him.

 

00:21:47:05 - 00:22:05:01

Alex

We don't put it at home because, you know, we we set it up outside of them on the sidewalk and it's not enough space. So we're like, okay, I guess let's be respectful. Somehow we already occupied some of the sidewalk because of the lines, so we try to be respectful with that too.

 

00:22:05:03 - 00:22:22:05

Jordan Haro

But what I love to is, is like the mix of like, yeah, well, I guess maybe the old ladies are not getting is like the, the fun within. And like, y'all are obviously nice people and it's not like, I don't know. It's not like actually evil.

 

00:22:22:05 - 00:22:30:21

Elvia

On social media they will be like ‘they are Satanists’ they are this or that. And I was like, we do not promote or say.

 

00:22:30:23 - 00:22:31:11

Alex

We use.

 

00:22:31:11 - 00:22:33:03

Elvia

Like, it's just.

 

00:22:33:05 - 00:22:45:06

Alex

like a theme. like a rock band than like, look at Slayer.. This singer of Slayer is like so Catholic. And he sings all these lyrics. He's just like, like a brand. That's it. It's nothing else behind it.

 

00:22:45:06 - 00:22:49:10

Elvia

We are very nice people.

 

00:22:49:12 - 00:22:58:08

Jordan Haro

Not evil. Not evil. I'm curious what, like, I, I've seen pictures of, like, the lengua.

 

00:22:58:10 - 00:22:59:20

Alex

Okay.

 

00:23:00:02 - 00:23:00:12

Jordan Haro

 

 

00:23:00:12 - 00:23:01:07

Elvia

Oh god.

 

00:23:01:09 - 00:23:07:04

Jordan Haro

It’s up to your face. Like, what are some of these other ideas that have been like-

 

00:23:07:06 - 00:23:29:14

Alex

Like everything is referred to something in rock like that one. I was thinking about Gene Simmons, you know, like how they say that he got it in, cow tongue, you know? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But now, like, everything refers to something in the music. Like, everything has to do something with music. Even though.

 

00:23:29:16 - 00:23:30:18

Elvia

a lot of our names.

 

00:23:30:18 - 00:23:58:03

Alex

Or names, like, we have something called El Asesino. it's, like it's a bad name. The assassin. that's how you say English? assassin. Assassin. It's, taco mix with black pastor and octopus. But these refer to this band, who used to play a long time ago called ‘Brujeria’. So we get to meet the, the guitar player, and, his band name is ‘Assassino’.

 

00:23:58:03 - 00:24:12:17

Alex

He also plays for his band. Is just another band called Fear Factor and we asked him if he was okay with the name. He was like, yeah, go for it. Like, that's badass. And that's why we have names like that. Like they're already there, but we just put it into food.

 

00:24:12:19 - 00:24:15:13

Elvia

Or our shirts. A lot of,

 

00:24:15:15 - 00:24:18:00

Alex

Our shirts are like.

 

00:24:18:02 - 00:24:20:13

Elvia

album covers. A lot of Metallica.

 

00:24:20:15 - 00:24:21:12

Alex

Misfits.

 

00:24:21:12 - 00:24:23:07

Elvia

Misfits,

 

00:24:23:09 - 00:24:40:23

Alex

Some of them are created by us, but still, like, a lot of, is referred to some, good records. We love metal records.

 

00:24:41:01 - 00:24:51:22

Elvia

How did the churro come about? It was just one one of those nights. We were a slow night, and we. We had cheesecake. Yeah, we had cheesecake. We had churro.

 

00:24:52:00 - 00:24:52:15

Alex

And we were like...

 

00:24:52:21 - 00:24:58:04

Elvia

And we had the strawberry jam. We just had everything. And we were like this.

 

00:24:58:04 - 00:25:11:15

Alex

And now we have two dessert tacos in the menu, the churro, the flan then that's what people ask a lot for. But like we, we, we have we been through a lot, a lot of them dessert tacos that we've been moving around.

 

00:25:11:17 - 00:25:13:04

Elvia

But I feel like those two.

 

00:25:13:05 - 00:25:15:21

Alex

Those are the favorite ones. Yeah.

 

00:25:15:23 - 00:25:27:00

Elvia

we did when we first started at Smorgasburg, we did the Ice Cream Alley and it was all dessert tacos. Dessert tacos. we had the,

 

00:25:27:02 - 00:25:29:21

Alex

night taco. It was like, peanut butter.

 

00:25:30:02 - 00:25:37:13

Elvia

With ice cream. Ice cream. We had the camote con leche, which is a sweet potato milk. What else did you have?

 

00:25:37:15 - 00:25:43:19

Alex

we had the choco flan. We had the arroz con leche. That's a rice pudding.

 

00:25:43:21 - 00:25:44:17

Elvia

We had a Gansito one.

 

00:25:44:17 - 00:25:49:21

Alex

The Gansito. That's like, it's a sponge bread covered with,

 

00:25:49:23 - 00:25:50:10

Elvia

Chocolate and.

 

00:25:50:10 - 00:25:58:11

Alex

Chocolate and jam and. Yeah, we had a lot of tacos going on, but still, like, those are the favorite ones right now.

 

00:25:58:13 - 00:26:00:01

Jordan Haro

So cool.

 

00:26:00:03 - 00:26:07:20

Elvia

We still have, we have a few. We want to bring them out, but, I don't know, it's hard.

 

00:26:07:20 - 00:26:11:07

Alex

Right now. It's like we don't have that much time.

 

00:26:11:09 - 00:26:32:14

Elvia

No, I think it's, we don't have enough people or. No, we do, but at the time, we didn't have enough people to really execute. Because if we're going to add another dessert, like if you're already busy as it is with the desserts that we would have a need for another person, it's just a matter of,

 

00:26:32:16 - 00:26:34:11

Alex

Getting used to train people.

 

00:26:34:11 - 00:26:42:05

Elvia

Train people were, multitasking more than what we have today. Yeah.

 

00:26:42:07 - 00:26:47:02

Jordan Haro

Yeah. I mean, what's what's your workflow like? Because you’re open-

 

00:26:47:04 - 00:27:00:01

Elvia

Friday through Sunday. But our week starts on Wednesdays, so we work Wednesday through Sunday. We have a four people five, five on Sundays.

 

00:27:00:03 - 00:27:15:21

Alex

Five and Sundays. Yeah. Like our crew has been growing because of people. A lot of people coming in and coming to try our food. So I think it's, the flow right now, like perfect. Like it's hard to find people who can adapt and, like, work with you and.

 

00:27:16:00 - 00:27:19:06

Elvia

Trustworthy because we just can't bring anyone in.

 

00:27:19:07 - 00:27:25:21

Alex

So it's really hard. But at the end of the day, like, I think we've been very lucky, very, very lucky to find the right people.

 

00:27:25:22 - 00:27:46:12

Elvia

Yeah. We had my sister in law join, join because she's like, she quit her ten-year office job. She's like, fuck this. The next day she's like, hey, so can I work with you Friday through Sunday? And at that time we were like, well, we need someone. And she offered, I was like, I don't know. She has no experience. She's been in an office.

 

00:27:46:14 - 00:27:49:00

Elvia

But that first day she took initiative.

 

00:27:49:02 - 00:27:53:14

Alex

And right now she's one of the best. Like, all of them are really, really, really good.

 

00:27:53:15 - 00:27:56:01

Elvia

But coming from someone who doesn't have any experience.

 

00:27:56:02 - 00:27:56:14

Alex

It's.

 

00:27:56:14 - 00:28:01:06

Elvia

Like I sat on my ass for so many years like, she's great.

 

00:28:01:06 - 00:28:01:23

Alex

She's great.

 

00:28:02:01 - 00:28:04:23

Elvia

Yeah, she's we're blessed. And then we have our tortillero.

 

00:28:05:01 - 00:28:11:15

Alex

He's he he he has experience and he's showing experience on every shift. Yeah.

 

00:28:11:15 - 00:28:13:00

Elvia

He’s great.

 

00:28:13:02 - 00:28:26:22

Alex

The black pastor is where he has to be. Like, it's just perfect. I want to say like, doesn’t need to change at all. Because, the, the hardest part was to.

 

00:28:27:00 - 00:28:27:11

Elvia

Have.

 

00:28:27:11 - 00:28:38:03

Alex

People not to show these recipes to people from Yucatan. They are from there. I had friends from there. They came to taste it.

 

00:28:38:05 - 00:28:38:22

Elvia

You were nervous.

 

00:28:38:22 - 00:28:46:14

Alex

I was nervous, and for them to tell me this is fucking amazing is like it was the best, the best feeling ever, you know?

 

00:28:46:15 - 00:28:48:07

Elvia

Although they did have one complaint.

 

00:28:48:11 - 00:29:05:00

Alex

Oh, yeah, they had one complaint because, the Recado Negro de Yucatan they use habaneros. And, it was in that spicy way. They were like, the flavors are there. Like they understand why we don't put habaneros because we have to-

 

00:29:05:02 - 00:29:05:08

Elvia

accommodate.

 

00:29:05:10 - 00:29:06:17

Alex

Accommodate everyone.

 

00:29:06:18 - 00:29:07:19

Elvia

Yeah.

 

00:29:07:21 - 00:29:11:13

Alex

Yeah. But other than that, they were like, everything's amazing.

 

00:29:11:15 - 00:29:14:17

Elvia

So. So if they approve - we’re happy.

 

00:29:14:21 - 00:29:16:01

Alex

Yeah.

 

00:29:16:03 - 00:29:21:15

Jordan Haro

Yeah. It's awesome. Do you ever have people that, like, come up and say like, oh, I'm from Yucatan and like.

 

00:29:21:15 - 00:29:22:04

Elvia

Yes.

 

00:29:22:04 - 00:29:27:16

Alex

Lot of people, a lot of people travel and they like, I'm coming from San Francisco, I'm coming from Las Vegas.

 

00:29:27:17 - 00:29:28:22

Elvia

My family's from-

 

00:29:28:22 - 00:29:48:12

Alex

My family’s from the Yucatan. And and we want to try. We just came here to try it and we're like, oh, sure. Like that's a huge thing for us. and they're happy with it. Like they message us after and they're like, oh my God, this is the best thing ever. So I think that's a really good, reward after after-

 

00:29:48:13 - 00:29:51:11

Alex

-when they tell you they they love it.

 

00:29:51:13 - 00:29:57:02

Jordan Haro

So how does the like division of work like, I know you said you're the owner and you're the the cook.

 

00:29:57:03 - 00:29:59:15

Elvia

He's the owner, too. He just likes to say that.

 

00:29:59:17 - 00:30:00:12

Alex

I’m the cook.

 

00:30:00:17 - 00:30:21:06

Elvia

And we’re both owners, we both cook. I do a lot of the paperwork. Hence why he left work. He didn't want to do that. but we both, I mean, I, I take care of my daughter while, you know, he preps, but when during work,

 

00:30:21:08 - 00:30:24:18

Alex

Like, we we both get dirty in the line and we both like-

 

00:30:24:20 - 00:30:33:03

Elvia

Like I'll jump on, on the flattop to give him a break, and then he'll. He likes to take orders. He likes to mingle and like.

 

00:30:33:03 - 00:30:55:04

Alex

To interact with people to make them feel welcome. Like everyone does it, like they already know. Like we're a small business and we want to welcome people like you. Like, basically they're coming to our house, you know, and welcoming them good. Like like I always say, like, now these days, like, personally, I think the the way you treat me, I treat you.

 

00:30:55:04 - 00:31:01:10

Alex

So I want to treat someone really good the way they treat this. Treat us good with their support.

 

00:31:01:12 - 00:31:11:01

Jordan Haro

Where is evil crooks heading to? Is it like still, you know, I know you said things are about to get crazier.

 

00:31:11:03 - 00:31:21:09

Alex

It’s going to get crazy when it comes to ideas to putting, things out there. but we not planning. Like a lot of people ask us if we're planning to open a restaurant. We don’t

 

00:31:21:09 - 00:31:23:21

Elvia

Or like why haven’t we.

 

00:31:23:21 - 00:31:31:10

Alex

Not yet. Like, we had the opportunity before, and probably we'll have it in the future. but still, I think Evil Cooks is uh, it's -

 

00:31:31:12 - 00:31:32:16

Elvia

It's meant to be in the streets.

 

00:31:32:16 - 00:31:55:22

Alex

It's meant to be in the streets. Be like pirates. like, I have a lot of experience with fine dining and molecular gastronomy, and I and I would love to execute that, but still on the streets. And right now we're we're offering something called the kamikaze menu instead of that omakase menu. It's called the kamikaze. And we we going to do that all you can eat.

 

00:31:56:02 - 00:32:21:20

Alex

But more fine dining tacos. So it's gonna be like, limited seating, seating space, used for. I think it's going to be like 12 people in one day, like six and six. And I'm going to try to do, like, a set menu of six tacos. But from there, I'm going to get creative after six tacos, if they keep eating, I'm going to get creative with whatever I have in the fridge.

 

00:32:21:22 - 00:32:24:16

Alex

So it's a challenge for me that's like -

 

00:32:24:16 - 00:32:27:07

Elvia

Keeps you on your toes. It keeps you getting more creative.

 

00:32:27:09 - 00:32:44:06

Alex

And still, like, people get to eat like fine on the streets, you know, So I think it's, that's pretty much right now what we have indoors. Like, we have a lot more things coming up, like with months that we cannot talk about, but still like.

 

00:32:44:08 - 00:33:00:13

Elvia

but I feel like we don't like to plan things ahead because nothing ever goes the way. The way you want and why be, like, be disappointed. So we are just literally going with the flow, going with the wind and like, right now see where it takes us.

 

00:33:00:15 - 00:33:11:17

Jordan Haro

So that's cool. Yeah. Because I feel like it's so many pop ups. They like just, you know, get that restaurant going real quick and then it's like a whole new batch of problems.

 

00:33:11:17 - 00:33:30:22

Elvia

See, like, our thing is, we want to build a solid foundation because if we go up too fast, we're going to come down even faster. So we're just trying to build up our clientele, build up our name, and, I don't know, maybe, we have something.

 

00:33:30:22 - 00:33:36:20

Alex

We have something separate from evil cooks. But I will say Evil Cooks is meant for the streets.

 

00:33:36:20 - 00:34:05:06

Jordan Haro

Yeah, I love it. I'm curious too. The, Like the taco. The taco is like. It's like, rarely like the the vessel for so much like, innovation. It's usually like. Yeah, you put like, whatever in it, but they're usually it is kind of like a product of tradition in a lot of ways. And there's a lot of different people doing little interesting things.

 

00:34:05:06 - 00:34:37:16

Jordan Haro

I feel like of like, oh, this tortillas, like real good. And like this one has this in it. It's real good. But it's like it's all usually for the sake of, like, you know, how are we going to just like, put like the same meats, like it's there's like a template. I feel like that's used in, like, I don't know if I mean, this is maybe a rhetorical question, but like, why has there been such like there hasn't if you're comparing like a tortilla to, like, rice, like the infinite stuff has been done with rice.

 

00:34:37:16 - 00:34:53:19

Jordan Haro

Yeah. Like or like flat bread, you knowl Like at Bavel, you know, that's just like, whatever with duck n’duja.. Or whatever, but like, yeah, the tortilla and tacos, it's like, I feel like there's just been less, like real crazy experimentation. Like what y'all are doing.

 

00:34:53:21 - 00:35:22:07

Elvia

People tend to get really mad. People tend to get really mad when people try to innovate a taco. They get so upset like, you can't you can't call that al pastor because it's not this way. But it's like food is. We have to evolve, right? That's how we've moved on from whatever, yet? It's evolution, and food is the same way.

 

00:35:22:07 - 00:35:28:06

Elvia

And, we're artists. We like to piss off your grandmother.

 

00:35:28:08 - 00:36:06:21

Alex

Like me coming from Mexico, a very traditionalist country. Like, it's hard because, when you have all these ideas, they're they're think you're messing up with, with the traditions. But they talk like that with, close minded, and they respect that. Like you, you can thing however you want, but I like to think with my open mind and, see everything, like evolution, like she says, like like even like, if you think about it, like, carnitas. Carnitas are very traditional from Mexico, but pork is not from Mexico.

 

00:36:06:21 - 00:36:16:21

Alex

Pork is from China. So think about it. Like everything we want, every, every good thing comes from a crazy idea. And we're here to prove it again.

 

00:36:16:23 - 00:36:18:18

Elvia

Like we became a meme in Mexico.

 

00:36:18:22 - 00:36:20:03

Alex

Yeah, we became a meme.

 

00:36:20:03 - 00:36:27:05

Elvia

And they slaughtered us. They took so much crap. Crap about us and oh, dude, we love it. Love it.

 

00:36:27:05 - 00:36:28:06

Alex

Like, have to get used to all this.

 

00:36:28:07 - 00:36:46:07

Elvia

We have to we we we got we learned to have thick skin. we learned to laugh. But we became a meme with our, vegan al pastor and our flan taco. Man. Our people, our people really try to put us down. But.

 

00:36:46:12 - 00:37:10:09

Alex

But it's okay. Like, at the end of the day, like I say, good or bad is good. Yeah. You have to use it. Use it right way. It's really hard because a lot like you say, it's a lot of, of the same thing out there. So it's really hard to set yourself apart of the rest. So that's when you start, like, creating new things and try to offer something different.

 

00:37:10:11 - 00:37:18:03

Alex

Not used when it comes to food, you have to offer an experience. And,

 

00:37:18:05 - 00:37:20:22

Elvia

I think we do it really well with experience.

 

00:37:20:22 - 00:37:36:23

Alex

And I always said it, I wanted to conquer L.A. because if you conquer L.A., you can conquer anywhere. Even I had done pop ups in Mexico and people love it. So I think it's a really good thing. So I, I don't know, like.

 

00:37:37:01 - 00:37:52:03

Elvia

Also people who don't follow us or don't know us think it's, I think it's like a third or fourth generation Mexican. And when in reality, it's,

 

00:37:52:05 - 00:37:55:05

Alex

And then an illegal who came here.

 

00:37:55:07 - 00:37:59:18

Elvia

You know, with all the comments that they say, but it's just.

 

00:37:59:22 - 00:38:06:03

Alex

It’s just people they're not used to change. And we're here to change their mind.

 

00:38:06:04 - 00:38:22:18

Elvia

But I think we're in the middle of evolution in the food industry right now in L.A. like there's so many crazy things, so many crazy restaurant chains, pop ups, and it's like a beautiful time to be around to eat right now.

 

00:38:22:20 - 00:38:48:18

Alex

Like, like, personally, I never I never tried to compete or do something different than the other ones. I tried to compete with ourselves at the end of the day, because we're we already have something set and we trying to do that a little bit better, that I think that helps a lot when it comes to creating, because you're not focusing on some someone else, success and someone else this or anything you.

 

00:38:48:20 - 00:38:58:06

Alex

So I think for us is like trying to trying to go ahead of ourselves somehow.

 

00:38:58:08 - 00:39:03:06

Jordan Haro

What is when you say you wanted to, to conquer LA. Like what? What does that look like?

 

00:39:03:08 - 00:39:08:08

Alex

I just want to show people what really good food is.

 

00:39:08:10 - 00:39:19:07

Elvia

I think we've conquered L.A. we got into the 101. That was something that, we never strived to. We never. I don't know if you like-

 

00:39:19:07 - 00:39:47:12

Alex

Like I said it before, I say. And when they did the interview for L.A. times and they asked us like the the, you know, the what the video was for in the picture session. They were like, no, like I didn't know at all. And they told us, like you is for the 101 and like, oh, shit Like I got like shocked because when I was in the industry of the restaurant, I was trying to chase that be the best being the best list being the other list.

 

00:39:47:12 - 00:40:03:18

Alex

And I think when you chat, channel yourself to find all this, it's a little bit harder than when you're not, when you're just focusing in why you're doing this is when all of the sudden it comes. And I think it's a better, a better.

 

00:40:03:20 - 00:40:04:08

Elvia

Outcome.

 

00:40:04:08 - 00:40:18:14

Alex

Feeling about it. So I think, it's still LA is huge. and still a lot of people hasn't tried food, and we want him to try it.

 

00:40:18:16 - 00:40:23:12

Jordan Haro

describe what is the 101 list for people who don't know.

 

00:40:23:14 - 00:40:26:11

Elvia

The 101 list? The 101 List was,, I think it was.

 

00:40:26:11 - 00:40:27:18

Alex

It was created by.

 

00:40:27:21 - 00:40:28:14

Elvia

People.

 

00:40:28:16 - 00:40:54:18

Alex

Was created by, Jonathan Gold. And he was, like a Boy Scout in the food industry. He was searching for the restaurants that he really liked. At the end of the day is the list of his taste buds. And he had really good taste buds, and they kept going these lists after he passed. And, they have really good writers, really, really good people who knows their thing about food.

 

00:40:54:18 - 00:41:16:17

Alex

So they scout around and they find every year 101 restaurants in L.A. It doesn't mean they're the best, but they're right now probably one of the the ones that are doing something different and they're bringing something different to to L.A. And for us is like really, really good because-

 

00:41:16:19 - 00:41:17:19

Elvia

We're not a restaurant.

 

00:41:17:19 - 00:41:23:09

Alex

We're not a restaurant. We're a pop up. it's a really great feeling.

 

00:41:23:11 - 00:41:28:15

Jordan Haro

There's always been like, a few, maybe, like, Mariscos Jaliscos or whatever.

 

00:41:28:17 - 00:41:30:04

Alex

But that’s a food truck.

 

00:41:30:09 - 00:41:40:13

Jordan Haro

Yeah, but never like. And also the sort of, like, bold experimentation that y'all are doing. It's like, it's really rad to see that like celebrated.

 

00:41:40:19 - 00:41:49:00

Elvia

But some of those things are from Mexico or, you know, like our, our, our cheeseburger taco.

 

00:41:49:02 - 00:41:49:13

Alex

Oh yeah. Right.

 

00:41:49:16 - 00:41:59:11

Elvia

That's a Mexican thing that they've been doing for over 30 years. Years. But no one's doing it here in L.A. So introducing that.

 

00:41:59:13 - 00:42:19:16

Alex

Introducing these little things that people haven’t had and give them a chance to try it some try something different. That's very very Mexican. But with that it Evil Twist, you know, like Recado Negro, Recado Negro. It's been since the Mayans and.

 

00:42:19:18 - 00:42:20:19

Elvia

It's an ancient recipe.

 

00:42:20:19 - 00:42:42:07

Alex

And bring it here and give that evil twist is something different, something even different that they if they go to Mexico and try it there, it's going to be a little bit different. They're gonna be like, oh shit, it's the same thing. But it's like another ramification of this original Recado Negro..

 

00:42:42:09 - 00:42:47:07

Jordan Haro

But people in Mexico are still like doing memes of y'all in a negative way?

 

00:42:47:09 - 00:42:49:06

Elvia

Yeah, but it's lately.

 

00:42:49:07 - 00:42:50:18

Alex

Not letting you use.

 

00:42:50:19 - 00:42:58:02

Elvia

It. Just here. Just here. But it's fun. It's all right. We're doing something right.

 

00:42:58:04 - 00:43:04:15

Jordan Haro

Yeah. Like it's like the Kanye thing. It's like the bad press is like. It's just press. It's. It's interesting.

 

00:43:04:17 - 00:43:09:23

Elvia

It gets you more out there, more people learn about you and more people love you. Yeah.

 

00:43:10:01 - 00:43:18:01

Jordan Haro

In in the community. Like, where is y'all's like, what is your read on like how y'all are doing with the like the regulars and like the.

 

00:43:18:03 - 00:43:18:22

Elvia

So a lot of people-

 

00:43:18:22 - 00:43:20:16

Alex

We have a lot of regulars.

 

00:43:20:17 - 00:43:26:10

Elvia

We have a lot of regulars. And we see them, at the grocery store. We see them at the gas station.

 

00:43:26:11 - 00:43:34:21

Alex

We have people that who comes every week, and if they don't show up one weekend, we're like, is he okay? Like, where is he? Like, we get worried.

 

00:43:35:08 - 00:43:41:05

Elvia

We have our loyal customers that are live around the corner.

 

00:43:41:07 - 00:43:48:04

Alex

even families who live around the corner and they use go by like, let me have eight tortas, let me have eight burritos.

 

00:43:48:05 - 00:44:22:23

Elvia

Yeah. Oh, I've known a lot of those neighbors for since I was a baby. And they've been supportive. no one's complained. everyone's been respectful and they're really supportive, which was a shock to me because I didn't expect this outcome. So it's nice.

 

00:44:23:01 - 00:44:52:08

Elvia

I can finally say I'm happy. like truly, truly happy. there might be little, little things around, but at the end I am content. I'm happy achieving, dreams and goals. And I'm thankful for him because we're doing it together. And it's something that your dreams and your goals as well.

 

00:44:52:10 - 00:45:19:06

Alex

Yeah. Something that personally I'm like, I feel free. I feel free from all these. I always say, like, I will never go back to a regular job. I just love to be free. we might not be rich. We might not be like, you know, like millionaires, but still, like, when you find happiness, that's where. That's what life is about.

 

00:45:19:07 - 00:45:48:07

Elvia

I didn't think, I don't know, I always thought about, money would make you happy. Like. Man, I see all these people with money. They look all happy. But, in reality, a lot of those are not happy. And we might not have everything. But having him my daughter and, like, our our our company, Evil Cooks like, I'm good.

 

00:45:48:09 - 00:46:06:12

Jordan Haro

That's awesome. Yeah, that's a pretty good place to land it. unless there's anything else that we forgot to mention in your story. Unless there's anything, like, crazy, crazy story. I mean, the machete guy. Yeah. I mean, it's amazing, but I don't know if there's any other crazy things.

 

00:46:06:14 - 00:46:26:14

Elvia

I mean, we haven't done anything. Oh, when was it? Two weeks ago. Some guy came. He was high on some gnarly drugs, and he got there, like, an hour early. Yeah. And, Maria was like, hey, dude, we don't open till five. He's like, all right. He came back. He came back an hour later. He was the first one.

 

00:46:26:14 - 00:46:40:22

Elvia

And he's like, let me have one of everything on the menu. And then she's like, all right, one of everything. And, I noticed him kind of weird. And I was like, he's like, let me have your fire salsa. I was like, sure, buddy, here you go. You know, he leaves.

 

00:46:41:00 - 00:46:42:20

Alex

He got a.

 

00:46:42:22 - 00:46:44:05

Elvia

Water. Also got a water.

 

00:46:44:05 - 00:46:48:15

Alex

And we serve, like in Mexico, like in the little plastic bags with your straw.

 

00:46:48:17 - 00:47:10:15

Elvia

So then, he started busting donuts in his car, like, literally right on Easter. And he stopped traffic, and he's going in circles with the bag of water in his mouth, and then he passes by. I'm like, be careful, you know? He goes and he starts busting more - uh, what do you call them? Donuts? And then he leaves.

 

00:47:10:17 - 00:47:30:23

Alex

So you get all these crazy stories when you're in the like. It's a lot of people like people out of town. they come from different parts of L.A. And they're not used to the area. So sometimes the police pass by like five, 4 or 5 cars the same time, and they just look around like, what's going on?

 

00:47:31:01 - 00:47:39:23

Alex

And I used to. I used to have to joke with them like, oh, you give good food and you give a really good show.

 

00:47:40:00 - 00:47:59:21

Jordan Haro

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