How we made tacos a Black thing in L.A

Americas - USA West Los Angeles
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…I began exploring L.A.’s Black-owned restaurants as a food journalist, and I kept finding tacos on the menu.

There’s Taco Tuesday at Stevie’s Creole Cafeon Pico Boulevard, the only day you can get hot honey catfish, garlic shrimp and chicken gizzards in lightly fried tortillas with a shower of lettuce and tomato on top. In Inglewood, Ms. Ruby’s Bakery is a hole-in-the-wall that specializes in red velvet cake but lists a taco combo on its menu next to home-style burgers and lemon pepper wings. There’s a legacy of taco-focused spots too, like Taco Pete’s, which opened its first location in Compton in 1989 and now has a second restaurant on West Slauson.

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