Mobile tortillerías, essentially full tortilla factories on wheels, are rolling through Sonoma County this spring, selling steaming corn tortillas by the pound and pulling steady lines in neighborhood parking lots. Shoppers say the fresh-made stacks are softer, more fragrant and closer to the tortillas they remember from home, and operators describe the roving kitchens as vehicles for memory and community as much as for food.
In Santa Rosa, Ramiro García parks his Tortillería La Lotería on Stony Point Road, while Cristian Álvarez runs Tortillería Apatzingán in Roseland, and similar setups have been spotted in Napa. The units sell tortillas by the pound and attract morning lines of customers looking for warm, paper-wrapped stacks, according to Sonoma Magazine.
These rigs are not taco trucks so much as trailer-mounted production lines. A recent profile described machines that can press about 100 tortillas a minute, adding up to thousands in an hour, which helps vendors keep up with demand, according to the San Francisco Chronicle…