[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]ometimes tacos and politics go together like aguachile and ice-cold beer.
Contrary to what the mostly anonymous or private commentators think while commenting “stick to tacos” on our Instagram account when L.A. TACO publishes stories having to do with racist behavior, gentrification, or the police getting caught in a lie, you can only write about food so much before it gets political. In the case of Wes Avila last weekend, sometimes politics walks right into your restaurant.
During Gavin Newsom’s final week of campaigning in Los Angeles against his recall, the governor stopped at Angry Egret Diner in Chinatown for lunch. The object of his desire? Wes Avila’s $30 soft-scrambled egg and lobster burrito. And just like that, perhaps for the first time in L.A.’s Taco Life, Wes Avila served an actual Taco Gobernador-esque taco to a real serving governor.
Background: A “Taco Gobernador” is a regional shrimp taco out of Sinaloa filled with melted cheese and seared shrimp. Taco lore says that it was a taco created in the 90s by Los Arcos, a famous mariscos restaurant in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, to impress Sinaloa’s governor at the time. The regional seafood taco has since blown up to be a menu staple at mariscos restaurants all over the U.S. and Mexico.