Pink Taco is coming to LA.
I didn't really know what Pink Taco was all about so I looked them up on wikipedia
Pink Taco is a Mexican restaurant chain that has earned notoriety[1] for its name, which is the same as a slang term for a human vagina. The president and CEO, Harry Morton, contends it comes from a menu item[2] and claims that if the restaurant were truly "vagina-themed" there would be "vaginas all over the walls."
vagina on the menu!? con todo por favor!
Eating L.A. has the scoop on Yuca's taking over Casa Diaz on Hollywood blvd. The new restaurant will be called Yuca's on Hollywood. I'll miss Casa Diaz's tasty carnitas tacos with guacamole salsa but two Yuca's is better than one.
Someone crashed a car into a Tacos Mexico in Las Vegas. Tacos Mexico drive through stays open anyway. (Via Las Vegas Daily Photo)
The Pink Taco corporate site is pretty crappy. Far too much "animation" for my taste.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for the head's up!
Pink Taco serves strictly Gringo Mexican Food. A pal of mine tried the Pink Taco in Phoenix and regretted it. Pink Taco is geared to attract the young hipster crowd -- it's more about the scene than the food.
ReplyDeleteHarry Morton who started Pink Taco is the son of Peter Morton (i.e. Hard Rock Cafes, Hard Rock Casino and Morton's).
I've tried the Pink Taco at the Hard Rock in Vegas. It was happy hour and I wouldn't go any other time. The food is boring and bland, but they do make their tortillas fresh. The actual "pink tacos" (panuchos) are nothing close to what they should be. The place is a no go zone for real taco eaters.
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, we have the Taco Rosa mini-chain in Orange County, which also means pink taco. I suppose the name might keep Mexican customers away. Or maybe it's because it's just meh, overpriced gringo Mex.
ReplyDeleteI think it's funny that wikipedia feels the need to specify "human vagina."
ReplyDeleteI've been to the Pink Taco at the Hard Rock in Vegas. The happy hour is excellent, with 2 for 1 beer and margaritas and half-off the appetizers. Their carne asada skewers are decent, resembling carne more than asada. Stay away from anything with sour cream, though. Last time we went we had nachos supreme and three of us got really sick.
ReplyDeleteHi there,
ReplyDeleteI created the Pink Taco restaurant & bar concept and opened the original in May 1998 -- a year before the Mortons opened their first.
The controversy and community response to their version is tame compared to what I faced in ultra-conservative Manhattan, Kansas. We had aggressive picketers, petitioners, hate letters, anonymous threats, an onslaught of negative letters-to-the-editor, and police
discrimination.
There were many stories in the local papers. The ABC affiliate out of Topeka came to Manhattan and did an on-site story that ran state-wide on the evening news, and the CBS affiliate invited us to join them in-studio for their half-hour morning show (which we declined since things were spiraling out of control).
I would do Internet searches at the time that would call up page after page of hits about me and my store. My Pink Taco dominated the regional news and spread nationwide through online postings and reprinted stories in towns across the country.
Anyway, I have written an article recounting the history of the original Pink Taco and the intense controversy it caused (complete with pictures and links to about a dozen of the news stories). You can read it on my blog if you're interested:
http://helpmestartauniversity.com/2008/04/17/the-amazing-true-story-of-the-original-pink-taco-restaurant-bar/
If that link isn’t hot, just click on my name and take that route instead.
FYI -- I just moved the story of the original Pink Taco to my blog at
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FYI -- I just moved the story of the original Pink Taco to my blog at
ReplyDeletehttp://jameswsperman.blogspot.com/2008/04/pink-taco-part-1-amazing-true-story-of.html
I've been to the Pink Taco at the Hard Rock in Vegas. The happy hour is excellent, with 2 for 1 beer and margaritas and half-off the appetizers. Their carne asada skewers are decent, resembling carne more than asada. Stay away from anything with sour cream, though. Last time we went we had nachos supreme and three of us got really sick.
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