LA Restaurant Tacos 1986 Opens NYC Restaurant in West Village | Eater NY
"A famed Los Angeles taqueria is making its East Coast debut in the West Village on Thursday, July 24 at 1 Cornelia Street (at West Fourth Street). The small New York outpost will be a slim, standing-room counter-service space of about 250 square feet that will initially operate evening hours before expanding to morning and afternoon service to include breakfast. Co-owners Victor Delgado and Jorge “Joy” Alvarez-Tostado — who grew up in the Mexican border city of Tijuana — emphasize Tijuana-style tacos with grilled meats layered onto homemade corn and flour tortillas: popular carne asada (steak) and the adobada (“adobo-marinated thin pork cut from a trompo”), along with chicken and mushroom varieties. Taco iterations will vary with degrees of grilled cheese, from mulitas to vampiros to quesadillas, as well as the recommended perrones (flour tortillas with grilled cheese and layered with beans and meats). The team will also offer breakfast tacos and burritos during the daytime with scrambled eggs, meats, mushrooms, salsas, bacon, beans, and more, and the restaurant will serve its own aguas frescas. The duo started a taqueria stand in Hollywood in 2018, were named one of Eater’s best new restaurants in 2019, have grown to eight locations across the region, and Alvarez-Tostado was part of the opening team of a prominent New York City taco spot back in 2013. On expanding to Manhattan the partners are candid: Alvarez-Tostado says, “It was a mission, a vision,” while Delgado positions it as: “How do you say no to New York City?” Alvarez-Tostado adds, “That’s really the goal in this small corner of New York: to represent Tijuana and Los Angeles,” and “I would love to create a nostalgic vibe for people who know it and have been to Tijuana.”" - Nadia Chaudhury
