Sinister masterminds are known for concocting strange creations in their secret hideouts, but in the lair of Alex and Elvia Garcia, who are better known as Evil Cooks, they’re whipping up Mexican food with a dark, heavy metal twist.
The Mexican food eatery, housed at Smorgasburg in Los Angeles, easily stands out from the bright neighboring vendors. It’s decorated with black tarps, skulls and a robed figure carrying a sword with what looks like intestines or tentacles hanging over its hands.
Alex and Elvia eat, sleep, and breathe goth, metal, punk, and a mix of other music genres, and they want their patrons to eat punk too. Their stand features buttons that spoof iconic band logos such as The Exploited and AC/DC, offering fans of Mexican food and music’s most wicked genres a chance to break bread together.
The pop-up serves diabolical dishes, such as the two-pound Megadeth Torta, made with a fried egg, tomatoes, guacamole, cilantro, red salsa, bacon, caramelized onions, hot dogs, black al pastor, mozzarella cheese, and green chorizo served between two bolillo slices with more melted cheese.
Their most notorious item, not always available because of the prep required, is The Poseidon, an octopus Al Pastor trompo taco. The mesquite-fired item has a smokey-tinged flavor that pairs deliciously with the black pastor adobo, red salsa, guacamole, and onions. The original trompo was made with traditional red-colored adobo. It was created by chef Regino Rojas of Revolver Taco Lounge in Dallas, Texas, who gave the duo the recipe. Alex and Elvia added their signature Yucatán-inspired recaudo negro.
Other items, such as the Rock Lobster (a hard shell taco with lobster) and The Simmons (a beef tongue taco), comically nod to new wave and hair metal. At the same time, others, such as The Goth, a black tortilla taco served with a choice of carne asada, pastor or veggies, pack a spicy punch that intensifies with each bite.
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