PICTURED: Cabo Seafood Grill serves up a wide range of tacos. Picture by Alex Wilson
by Alex Wilson
Oxnard Taco Path
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Arturo Garcia has served numerous tacos at Cabo Seafood Grill and Cantina since opening the favored Oxnard restaurant 25 years in the past. A few of his latest clients discovered his restaurant after it was included on the “Oxnard Taco Path” created by Go to Oxnard, a company working to draw vacationers to town.
Whereas contemporary, regionally sourced seafood dishes and guacamole ready proper on the desk are specialties of the restaurant, it’s one among his taco recipes which have additionally helped make a mark on Oxnard’s culinary scene, Garcia stated.
“My taco that we’re well-known for is our fried taco. It’s a mix of pork and floor beef with potatoes and spices. We fry it, and it’s actually good,” Garcia stated.
Sitting on a festively adorned, sunny patio with mariachi music enjoying within the background, Garcia informed the Ventura County Reporter what units his tacos aside.
“We do the whole lot from scratch. We use the very best substances. We don’t use microwaves or canned meals. Our recipes are my mother’s recipes. We’re from Jalisco, Mexico. As you’ll be able to see over there, they make tortillas proper in entrance of you.”
As for Garcia’s favourite factor about proudly owning a restaurant? “I like taking good care of clients. To me, once I see a buyer go house pleased, it makes me really feel actually good.”
Extra tacos to strive
Brittney Hendricks is vp of promoting and communications for Go to Oxnard, a vacation spot advertising group selling tourism in Oxnard. Go to Oxnard is partly funded by town and likewise generates income by means of a 1.5% evaluation on lodge room stays, she stated. Go to Oxnard’s objectives embody boosting folks’s notion of Oxnard, and rising in a single day visitation by each leisure and enterprise vacationers.
Tacos el Brother makes use of uncommon substances. Picture by Brallan Perez Favela
When it got here to on the lookout for new methods to advertise Oxnard, Hendricks stated tacos had been a simple selection.
“The Oxnard Taco Path is one thing that Go to Oxnard got here up with a few years in the past as a result of we all know that Oxnard has such superb Mexican meals,” stated Hendricks, noting that town’s inhabitants is about three quarters Latino. Lately, Go to Oxnard launched into an effort to reinforce the path by including extra eating places and new interactive options to get folks enthusiastic about sampling tacos.
The unique Oxnard Taco Path was created by means of a neighborhood survey. Fourteen taco spots had been featured on a map, together with well-known institutions similar to Yolanda’s Mexican Café in Seabridge and La Gloria Market in Downtown Oxnard, in addition to smaller companies and taco vehicles. However Hendricks stated she realized there are way more tacos in Oxnard that need to be within the highlight, and hopes to have about 40 institutions on board when the Oxnard Taco Path is formally relaunched this summer time.
Otani’s Seafood is thought for fish tacos. Picture by Brallan Perez Favela
This time round, Go to Oxnard shall be working straight with eating places who need to be included on the Oxnard Taco Path. The revamped web site and cellphone app may have an interactive map so folks can examine in at places and win branded prizes. There’s no value for a restaurant to be listed on the web site, app and map.
Hendricks stated there are all kinds of tacos for folks to take pleasure in in Oxnard.
“I believe they like that it’s a fast avenue meals which you can get,” she stated. “You don’t at all times need to go to a sit-down restaurant to get them. Most locations put their very own spin on a taco. Despite the fact that you consider a taco as a couple of easy substances, it virtually by no means tastes the identical while you go to totally different eating places.”
A style of native tradition
Hendricks stated Go to Oxnard aimed to advertise a meals that displays the native tradition.
“We additionally need to be genuine to the individuals who dwell right here and inform the story, not simply from a culinary perspective but in addition from a tradition perspective,” she defined. “And we all know that meals is ingrained in lots of people’s tradition. We all know that lots of Oxnard residents are proud Mexican Individuals, and we need to shine a lightweight on a few of these native companies.”
Otani’s Seafood has been in enterprise since 1952. Picture by Brallan Perez Favela
Go to Oxnard Public Relations Director Elizabeth Melgoza is engaged on the launch of the revamped Oxnard Taco Path. She stated most of the companies they characteristic on the Taco Path are family-owned and serve essentially the most genuine tacos round.
“We actually consider that now we have among the greatest taquerias and taco vehicles in Southern California,” she stated. “So it’s essential to us to spotlight all these totally different locations, not only for locals however for guests on the lookout for one thing to do. It makes an amazing one- or two-day, enjoyable itinerary to journey round Oxnard and cease on the totally different spots on the path.”
She’s hoping the revamped Oxnard Taco Path helps persuade folks to pattern all of the totally different choices.
“They’re so easy and but there’s a lot selection on the identical time,” Melgoza stated. “There are such a lot of totally different varieties that I believe should you simply tried tacos at a few totally different locations, you’re simply scratching the floor. They’re simple to eat they usually’re scrumptious.”
