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Tacos are made with handmade flour tortillas topped with a grilled tomato and dried chili salsa and filled with everything from sauteed shrimp to pork shank carnitas and suadero. Quekas feature hand-pressed masa and are served with a habanero salsa.
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My favorite thing was rediscovering places that I had kind of forgotten about,” Carcamo said. “Lola Gaspar is a really great example of that. It’s in my neighborhood and I hadn’t been in years. I think sometimes you get in the pattern of going to the same places.
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EAT THIS NOW: TACO TUESDAY AT LOLA GASPAR
You know it’s taco Tuesday when chef Luis Perez fires up the outdoor grill, and the aroma of charred meat and burning mesquite wood fills up el patio at Lola Gaspar.