There’s a new taco cart in town. It has the style of a classic, cherry-red 1950s Cadillac and the capacity to serve some of your favorite street foods legally.
Behind L.A.’s newest legal taco cart is Revolution Carts, which, true to its name, is trying to change the game for street vendors.
Last week, its founder, Richard Gómez, the engineer behind the new grill-equipped cart, confirmed with L.A. TACO that the health department had approved the latest addition to the company's cart catalog.
“We’re introducing our new grill cart, and we’re hoping that this becomes a solution to help out all the people selling tacos and other foods,” he said while giving L.A. TACO a first look at the newly wrapped cart—the first edition of its kind. “Pupusas, bacon hot dogs, smash burgers, pancakes. This incorporates everything that we couldn’t do with the tamal cart.”
Gómez said the taco cart was the first design they wanted to work on in 2018. However, the timing and restrictions that the health department and city had placed on taco carts were too strict, pushing the company to pivot to a smaller cart that eventually debuted as the first legal tamal cart in L.A.