Homegrown Flavours

Husband-and-wife team Rodolfo GarcÍa and Dulce Gonzalez, from Tijuana, Mexico have opened Tacos Tocayo, serving super-fast street-style food they love to eat back home. Chef Rodolfo hand-presses the corn tortillas daily, and has short menu of $6 tacos. There’s asada beef, and adobada pork with avo sauce, charred pineapple and coriander. “For the meat marinades, I asked around back home to find the best recipe,” he laughs. The other tacos are nopales (cactus) and house-made soy-based ‘chorizo’, both vegan, which Rodolfo says happened naturally, especially as the traditional salsas, such as pico de gallo, and marinades are dairy-free.

45 Grey St, Tauranga (former Falafel Metro site)  @tacostocayo_nz