We're sticking with the food theme here.
One of San Diego's favorite seafood trucks is turning its wheels into brick.
Kiko's place is now opening a brick and mortar taco shop downtown.
And after 40 years of service,
it's very impressive feat for them.
Join us live Javier Escamilla to tell us more about the accomplishments here.
So, uh I've been to your food truck many times. Javier. Very good food.
Um But how awesome is this that you're gonna be opening a brick and mortar now?
Well, yeah, we're very excited about opening in D
San Diego.
So we're gonna be offering the best seafood and fresh from San Diego
locally from Tijuana. We're gonna bring the seafood over here to San Diego as well.
Awesome.
So here it is. Here it is. Yes. So here's some of the samples of some of the great stuff.
Um You guys cook up there.
Uh Tell us a little bit about our viewers, a little bit about your back story.
Um This started many, many decades ago with your father.
Yeah, he started in 1983 with my dad star in San Felipe.
He was very popular in San Felipe.
2011, we opened our first food truck in San Diego.
And from there on, we've been taking care of the food trucks. My sisters and me,
and from there on we've been working very hard seven days a week,
3, 65 days.
I know it, it never ends with you guys and
you guys have the, the, the, the fresh stuff.
I mean, you guys go out and you guys get that. How do you, how do you go about doing that?
Well, we try to keep the quality. We try to see uh
the best product from Mexico
and we, we bring, we bring it over which is the clams, the fish, the smoked fish,
oysters.
Yeah, we're, we're looking at some of your uh favorite dishes here.
Walk us through what we're looking at here. Yeah, that one of the Chingon
Carrera
with shrimp.
It has avocado
PICO de gallo. And the one over there is the smoked fish, which is tuna.
OK?
And the other one is the OG which traditional,
this is the OG I've had this one quite a quite a few times.
That's,
and this is this spicy seafood mix quesadilla,
which is the hot tortilla.
And this is the famous Crazy svi
oh, look at that. And you guys, you guys uh do such a great job of presentation too.
I've noticed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And this is the famous key cocktail.
That's all, it's all packed in there.
It's
good
oysters and,
and shrimp, octopus,
klos
massel.
Let's talk a little bit about this, uh,
brick and mortar store with the location one more time.
The address. Yes, Al Fora
and T
in downtown San Diego. Ok, awesome.
Uh, you gonna be offering anything different there.
How, how are you approaching that? This is new for you?
Yeah, we're gonna be serving more, uh,
uh, more of our area of food. We have the whole fish, which is Pescado frito.
We're gonna have Michas
as well. We're gonna have more appetizers.
OK?
And you guys have a, uh,
a liquor license for this location so people can enjoy their survey, uh with their,
with their michos
as a small business owner who, um, you know,
took over the reins for dad and everything.
Um How do you feel about
the progress that you've made
and um, this getting a, a shop? I mean, you must feel pretty proud about.
Oh,
yes.
Yeah, we feel very proud because
from a food truck, we're moving on to a restaurant,
we're still gonna give the food truck.
But
the most exciting part is that we're in the beautiful
San Diego and right in the middle of San Diego. So we're very excited.
You're a small business success story. It's you and your, your two
sisters, one, your sisters, um carrying on the tradition that, uh from that and,
and I understand dad passed away recently, but he, I think you'd be pretty proud of,
of
everything that's grown.
Yeah, I know mom is too.
Um, ok. So
if people show up to this restaurant, um,
bring your friends because there's gonna be a lot of food
around the holiday, what is it, is it officially open up now? Is gonna be
open on Friday
on Friday?
Ok.
So I heard you say that you're not letting the food truck go,
that's still gonna be in the same location.
Uh, remind everyone where the food truck is. They want to stop.
The foot truck is gonna be is always in
fashion in
Michon Valley and Fashion Valley
in Mi
Center road.
Awesome.
And one more time,
the address for the new location is gonna be uh four and T in downtown San Diego.
All right. Awesome, Javier. Thanks for coming in. Nice to see you again, sir.
Thank you very much. We're gonna have some samples here. Stay with us, everyone.
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