NEW HOT SAUCE

Been in the Lucha Taco kitchen today, prepping food and checking out hot sauce recipes. We have a new one to try tomorrow made from Guajillo chiles.

The guajillo chilli's thin, deep-red flesh has a green tea flavor with berry overtones. Its fruits are large and mild in flavor, with only a small amount of heat (rating 2,500 to 5,000 on the Scoville scale).

We just ate the Worst Food Ever !!

Ok so wednesday night comes along i'm starting to feel a little bit better, Chaps pops past to see how i am doing and we decide to check out our Mexican Food Competition in Jozi.

First up is Mexican Fresh in Blairgowrie.
The venue is smart, nice color scheme, green & white, looks neat and clean, you can see into the kitchen which is a plus.
They have no Aguas Fresca, only soft drinks and a fully stocked bar, bonus is they have soft drinks in glass 300ml bottles.
Menu has nothing too exciting on it, usual beef, chicken, veg & prawn in various combos, either tacos, enchiladas, burritos, salads or chimichangas

We order the soft chicken tacos and the hard shell beef tacos.
My corn tortillas could have been on the grill for a little longer the filling was insipid watery, chewy, flavorless yet salty chicken with cold cheese and lettuce, the sides included over cooked, over salty rice a weird roasted salsa and guac which was ok.

Beef tacos , the shell was fine the filling was flavorless beef strips, no mexican origanuim, no flavor, cold cheese and the meat had a weird rubbery texture, no lime, no brightness in flavor, just dull. The sides were the same as the chicken.
We left most of it, damage = R186
3 drinks
2 tacos

Still hungry and in search of a good taco, we head to Melville to Cafe Mexicho. This place is a frecking DUMP. I think its a wannabe cantina tequila minus the sanitation.

Look through the menu it make no sense at all, i think they made most of it up. Chaps and i order the beef double wrapped taco - a hard shell wrapped in a flour tortilla ???? any way the food comes, it's corn tortilla not a flour one and it's under cooked.
i lift the taco up and get a whiff of a weird scent, never-mind i munch down on the taco and i have never spat food out in a restaurant, this was the first time OMG !!! that was disgusting, on closer inspection the taco smelt like liver flavored cat food, looked a bit like it too, chaps didnt even try it , the gauc tasted like it was off.
We asked for the bill and server asked us if we would like a doggie bag, i replied that was the most disgusting thing i have ever tasted in my life and he called the manager over and she started to argue with me, i was like gimme the bill i am leaving.

Damage  = R89
1 beef taco

Rant over, JOZI get with it CT has great mexican food

SAD NEWS !

I have been feeling a bit under the weather recently and my amazing Gran who had just turned a 100 fell, broke her hip and passed away 3 days ago :( REST IN PEACE GARGS.

CT - EL Burro

Been in Cape Town for nearly a week, My grans 100th bday(AWESOME!!) plus some dj'ing gigs.

So i arrive in CT, drop off my bags and head straight to El Burro in green point, i walk in and Sascha (1 of the owners) is there and we have a little chat about Lucha Taco/ El Burro etc and i meet Nic (another owner). The venue is dope!! great wooden tables, nice decor.

I sit down and check out the menu and i'm pretty impressed some adventurous menu options for a south african mexican restaurant and i find out it's half price lunch !!, sweeet.

I ordered the Agua Fresca, it was a little too sweet for me, but it had great flavor.
The pork carnitas taco - this was awesome, great flavor, great texture, loved the corn tortillas.
also ordered the beef short rib with flour tortillas - this was waaay to salty for me, kinda like they let it reduce a little too long.

On my last day in CT i went back and i tried their Elote - it was good, a bit different to mine theirs was a lot sweeter and i use feta and they use parmesan, I prefer my Elote, the creaminess of the feta and sharpness of the lime wins every time.

all in all a great spot and great food, i'm sure with a few tweaks this spot will rocking and set the bench mark for great mexican food in SA and if you know me you know i am a complete food snob and dont give out praise easily so well done El Burro

Word

Hey, it's been a crazy week with moving and catering our first event! (YAY) here are some pics of the unfinished loft where LUCHA TACO kitchens are. We got some big props from Sam on her blog check it here http://joburgirlagogo.wordpress.com/ umm thats about it, 30 more days left of work and then LUCHA TACO becomes real.
We are also starting this saturday at the Bamboo market in Melville.

Look out for a Chocolaj/ LUCHA TACO colab! gonna be hot

YUMM, Aguas Frescas pt 2

Elderflower

Blood Orange

Watermelon

Kiwi     

Aguas Frescas

Great new flavors this week

Watermelon

Elderflower

Kiwi

Blood Orange

they are INCREDIBLE!!!

Also still we have our favorites from our friends at Kuhestan

Rose & Raspberry

Mint

Rhubarb

Blackberry

Lime 

last but not least we have El Jefe Aguas Frescas

Lemonade

Chili Lemonade

Hope to see you at Market on Main !

El Jefe

Elote

I used to go to NYC about 8 times a year back in the Day and while our offices were in the NJ i used to stay with a mate ( Paddy ) in SOHO and he lived about 3 blocks from HEAVEN.

Cafe Habana they make the BEST corn on the cob in the world + amazing cuban sandwiches, anyway i have recreated the corn recipe so you can try a little NYC in downtown Jozi.

Yo When our kitchen is up and running Lucha Taco is def gonna help out this kids !

Nollie Faith 

Teaching neighborhood kids to skate.

	Just some regular guys who are trying to make a difference in a tough community , skateboarding is giving these kids opportunity’s that they would normally never have experienced .

Lucha Taco cant wait to be part of the fox street community help out Nollie Faith

Who you tryna get

2 Luchadores in training, I'm sure they will need a Taco and Aguas Frescas

Lourdes Grobet is an amazing Photographer, a lot of inspiration for Lucha Taco comes from her amazing images

HEHE

pretty dope for fast food chain

awesome book

Hey you should check out this awesome book called 'Lucha Loco' by Malcom Venville, over a 100 potraits of Luchadors

http://www.luchaloco.com/about.htm

Lucha Taco MIx

Lucha Taco MIx by deepasouth

Some inspiration from Charlie Never

Some inspiration from Charlie Never, big up D, it's freaking delicious!!!
Horchata Ice Cream in the making, for those that dont know what Horchata is, It's a traditional Mexican beverage, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, vanilla and cinnamon. soo yum!!

Famous people eating Lucha Taco and pics

 ZAKI

 Potato & Chorizo Taco

 LUCHA TACO  - Aguas Frescas

 Stickers

 LUCHA TACO  - Aguas Frescas

 Tortilla Making

Zaki Ibrahim eating LUCHA TACOS!! check out her website and her music, very stoked  http://www.zakiibrahim.com/

coming soon

Chaps at LUCHA TACO

Pics By Nicholas Nabìl Tebogo Rawháni

Rose & Raspberry!!! this drink is amazing

Got this cool Message from James

James Adey April 14 at 9:03am Report

so i dreamt about your tacos last night. i was at a festival , it was late and i was drunk and hungry. then you arrived with these HUGE tacos . everyone started swarmimg you in a mad stampede to get your tacos. you had set up a system where you had to go pay this nice lady and get a number then wait for your taco. no one would listen. you were just chilled , you were like - no number no taco. so i asked you to keep one under the table for me while i went to get a number.....

Awesome!

Pretty Stoked

I am pretty stoked, i have a new toy in Lucha Taco kitchen, a Ice Cream maker. I already have some great ideas for flavors and the testing begins this evening. If all goes to plan Home Made Artisan Ice Cream will be on the Lucha Taco menu soon.

Premises, we might be opening a proper........

We might be opening a proper Taco Stand, watch this space!!!!

T-shirts coming soon