everyone loves us i mean we love them
we smile when they pass by vias tacos in
los angeles has set up shop on their
grandparents lawn and are serving up
delicious street food uh
front yard food from their instagram to
your car
tacos lulitas and quesadillas with your
choice of protein and several amazing
secret family recipe salsas
we love this place we've been coming
every week since we found out
yeah well this is our grandparents house
so we always used to play with our
cousins here like every sunday and we're
little we got to see
um you know the neighborhood
be part of it and i'll serve it it's
really it's really something special
uh on the menu you got this here you got
the handmade blue corn tortillas we take
this masa and we make it into tortillas
for tacos
molitas and quesadillas
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all our meats are grilled over mesquite
charcoal we have pollo chorizo
asada and then vegan options we have
black bean and ensalada de nopal which
is a
cactus salad potatoes and they should
look like this
nice and crispy here it goes to the
finishing station
we throw in this outside that sauce
hibiscus pickled onions
once it's finished bagging out the door
it allows
maximum efficiency with with the given
space that we have
hear that that's what i'm talking about
let's go
it's really uh it's really colorful
especially the tacos you guys have like
seven layers of different colors
yeah you also had to consider how they
would taste together right well i
figured
what what are some of my favorite
toppings and what would make my
ideal taco my taco of choice if i were
to go to
a taqueria and i had all these tools at
my disposal
how would my talk would look
how do you like working with your family
it wasn't always like this
um it wasn't always the family working
with us when we were on uh on york
boulevard it was pretty much
just like me and a couple buddies but uh
you know we're right here
but before but before no
let's ask that question again what's it
like with the family i like it
i mean my sisters i'm with them
sometimes you know sometimes we could
get on each other's nerves but that's
when we just gotta
get together and uh get through the day
via's tacos has a simple menu of tacos
molitas
and quesadillas with your choice of
carne asada chicken or chorizo
combined with any six of the via's
family salsas and you have food so
delicious you'll forget you're eating it
off the hood of your car on a noisy
street
i try every spot that i possibly can big
small medium whatever
and what he's doing is just totally
totally different there's nothing like
it texture's different
the flavors are different just visually
they're probably some of the prettiest
tacos you've ever seen
so instagram has helped us out a lot we
don't have
we don't use a major ordering system we
are
our ordering system we announce when
we're taking orders
and through through direct messages
they're able to contact us
say hey you know what 720 725 works good
for me we lock them in they send our
order
then from there we write their order on
this here
that's how we control the line we
control the flow of things
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via starts with fresh pressed blue corn
tortillas the best way to enjoy a
tortilla
is a fresh fresh tortilla made just
seconds before
it it gets topped off with that with
that beautiful meat and all those
toppings
blue was an interesting choice i had
never tried a blue corn tortilla can you
believe that and i thought how many
other people
in los angeles were just like me and i
decided to go with handmade blue corn
tortillas that was going to be my thing
this is mesquite carbon uh mesquite
charcoal
why mesquite that's that's all we use
flavor from the smoke from the wood it's
the only way to do it the only right way
to do it squirrel here this is the one
that we started off with
her name is maria and then this one here
this is rick
and this is his twin brother morty now
it's gonna start it's gonna start
popping
so be careful that's why we have our
bike signature here
just in case we're gonna fill this grill
up here
we cook it this way we let it cook for
about 20 25 minutes
slow and slow
we don't rush it because sometimes i go
places you know to try their food
and the fire is all the way at the top
and it's just it's
if the heat is excessive this it's it's
actually grilling you know we're
we're grilling and we're chilling as
mentioned before there are six
family salsas so this one here is uh my
grandma salsa it's a red salsa so we
have salsa guacamole and we have
actual guacamole chunky this is a
tomatillo-based salsa mango pico de
gallo and then we have
our roasted salsa this is my dad's
recipe so we mix this with this
and that is the recipe that his dad
showed him in
it's a three-generation salsa correct
this one is my recipe this is the mango
habanero we use
almost four liters we have 14 liters of
guacamole today 14. this is our
the worx vegan taco here starts off with
your
handmade blue corn tortilla next step
you add some
homemade black beans let that get nice
and hot there we got our uh
soyrizo with grilled onions and grilled
pineapple 100
vegan the first time we found out about
it we've been telling friends
we're picking up orders for other people
now
the first hour is the busiest because
we're we're trying to get everything in
order
but then the last hour is the busiest as
well because we're taking chances then
and we might just be accepting a couple
orders yo yo what up instagram it's
about that time again
beach type is in the building baby