When they hear the words “King” and “Taco” together, most people in L.A. will likely think of the large, crowned marquee advertising this local Mexican food chain’s success story , as it lights up an East L.A. blacktop into the witching hours.
Or, if you go back long enough, to the ice cream truck-turned-lonchera parked next to an East L.A. bar that Gustavo Arrellano cited as the city’s first taco truck in an obituary of King Taco co-founder Raúl Martinez in 2013.
What most imaginations probably fail to conjure is King Taco’s mean salsa roja over its meh asada being conveyed inside the belly of a four-wheeled Coco robot that came from the innards of a ghost kitchen that also houses a location of Gywneth Paltrow’s Goop Kitchen…