Taquería Frontera’s second location in Silver Lake was supposed to open on Cinco de Mayo.
It would’ve been a perfect, poetic L.A. moment: Our #1 taquería in the city expanding into one of its most visible neighborhoods, just in time for Dodger baseball and late-spring patio nights.
Instead, it launched this past Friday afternoon, with about a dozen people standing in the rain waiting for the official grand opening and owner Juan Carlos Guerra—who everyone calls J.C.—rushing across the parking lot under a giant sign that read “More tacos, less borders.”
“Party walking through,” he yells, carrying several bottles of tequila to his car. “These are left over from our friends and family night.”