Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Chicago Reader


Wondering what happened to Frontera vet Raul Arreola since Rustico Grill closed and he left Mixteco Grill? According to the video, he's resurfaced as the mysterious lucha-libre-masked chef of Tamalli Space Charros. For months TSC mouthpiece and performance artist Aztlan Cardinalhas foretold the launch of a "mobile tamalli space ship" influenced by Mexican wrestling, sci-fi films, and the avant-garde movement known as Stridentism. This weekend the ship lands, not as a food truck, but as a stand at the Wrigleyville Summerfest, helmed by Arreola, Cardinal, and other former employees of the House of Rick, turning out a short and promising menu of guacamole, tilapia fish tacos, paletas, and three varieties of tamale:
—chicken with peanut mole
—pork with black mole
—rajas with tomato-habanero sauce

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