Over three years of pandemic-era takeout, we’ve reused the plastic containers from curries and quesabirria tacos to share leftovers, distribute cookies and trap the occasional errant spider. But we needn’t have accumulated quite so many of them. In July of 2019, Assembly Bill 619 passed, updating California Retail Food Code to allow businesses to fill […]
Los Giles Taqueria
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Food Trucks and World Central Kitchen to the Rescue
Three-year-old Leilani Valverde held a partly unwrapped burrito sideways in both hands, took a bite out of the middle and came up smiling. According to her father, Christian Valverde, who brought her with him to the Rio Dell fire department Thursday morning, it was her first hot meal in two days, ever since a 6.4 […]
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Meals to Seek Refuge In
Party in a crepe As you circle the hors d’oeuvre tables and snatch deviled eggs and skewered shrimp from passing servers at parties and openings, spare a thought for our introverted friends missing the spread. Even for the most outgoing among us, there are some people whose company is a high price to pay for a […]
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Rescue by Torta
On a rainy day, the little striped pop-out awning on the Los Giles Taqueria tucked in the lot behind US Bank in Arcata looks like an oasis (953 G St.). (Yes, it’s the same black truck you see up the street across from the Arcata Theatre Lounge in the evening.) Pressed for a recommendation, owner […]