Villa’s Tacos simply made its Tremendous Bowl debut — and it wasn’t exterior of Levi’s Stadium serving up delicious fare to soccer followers.
The restaurant had a cameo in Dangerous Bunny’s fast-paced halftime present.
Proper in the beginning of the Puerto Rican singer’s efficiency at Tremendous Bowl LX, as he wades by way of fake sugarcane fields, he passes a sequence of small companies. He takes a piragua — a standard Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert — from one vendor, then arms off the cone to Victor Villa, because the Villa’s Tacos proprietor stands behind a cart emblazoned with the enterprise’ title. The singer then geese beneath the sparring fists of boxers Xander Zayas and Emiliano Vargas.
Villa, who began the taqueria as a pop-up within the Highland Park neighborhood in 2018, took to Instagram to specific gratitude for the chance, underscoring his household’s immigrant background.
“We bought our first taco within the entrance yard of my grandma’s home in Highland Park greater than 8 years in the past & I really feel that each taco alongside the best way introduced me right here. At this time. For this second!” the put up acknowledged. “I couldn’t have bought that 1st taco if my mother and father didn’t make the troublesome resolution to go away their homeland for a greater life & immigrate to the U.S.”
The Los Angeles institution — recognized for its freshly pressed blue corn tortillas, char-grilled meats and cheese-encrusted tacos — has been featured 3 times within the L.A. Instances 101 Finest Eating places listing, and in addition is within the Michelin information. The restaurant’s formidable, maximized layering of mouth-watering components has been hailed by L.A. Instances restaurant critic Invoice Addison as “deftly engineered chaos,” finally epitomizing the “L.A. dreamer, the go-getter.”
Villa’s Tacos was additionally featured on Season 3 of the Netflix sequence “Taco Chronicles.” The restaurant has two places in Highland Park and one in downtown L.A.’s Grand Central Market.
In a subsequent Instagram put up, Villa thanked the Grammy winner once more for the chance. “It’s loopy the place a taco can take you,” he wrote.
