A mural of an Indigenous Yaqui man looks down on you, mid-stride in La Danza del Venado in the Sonoran desert coast, as you take your first big bite of an Obregón-style taco de asada at the seven-month-old Tacos La Rueda in Bellflower.
It’s the dream taquería of brothers-owners Omar and Alan Cejudo Hernandez, who pictured opening it since they first moved from Obregón, Sonora, to Los Angeles in 2004. Their young taquería, hidden deep in a strip mall, doesn’t look like it’s the most exciting Sonoran-style taco shop to open in Los Angeles since Sonoratown. But it is.
“I have seen so many customers from Sonora be instantly transported back to their childhood as soon as they take their first bite or the first sip of our agua de cebada,” Omar tells L.A. TACO, getting a bit emotional. “Moments like that inspire me always to have my food be just as good as it is in Sonora; there is nothing more rewarding than seeing that moment as an owner of a restaurant.”