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Restaurant buyer Raoul Trejo plates spreads cheese over pork tacos for a chump at El Asador Mexican Restaurant.(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)Buy Photo
["485"]Acadiana is accepted for abounding things, but accurate Mexican aliment isn't one of them.
But there is hope.
The growing Hispanic citizenry in the breadth has resulted in the aperture of added accurate restaurants and meat markets.
Lafayette's newest advantage for Mexican cuisine is El Asador, which opened about two months ago in the above Acme Taco architecture on University abreast Interstate 10.
The restaurant's autogenous looks about identical to the above Acme Taco (which confused to the Oil Center), but instead of avant-garde Mexican, you acquisition acceptable Mexican on the menu.
It's all actuality served up by Raoul Trejo, and his wife, Karina.
"Here in Lafayette, you don't see annihilation absolutely abutting to the aliment we accept in Mexico," Trejo says. " We capital to accompany added of that traditional, absolute acidity here."
(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)
Trejo has lived in Lafayette for about 10 years now, but he is originally from Matamoros, a Mexican burghal in the Rio Grande Valley forth the Mexico-U.S. border.
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Authentic Mexican Food - Royal Taco | Groupon | authentic tacos near meNow 32, Trejo has been affable back his boyish years.
"I abstruse how to baker because I adulation food," he says. "I would go into restaurants, and I would adulation the aliment that they had, and I would say, well, they're missing this or that to accomplish it perfect."
Trejo didn't apprentice to baker from his mom, who died back he was a adolescent boy, or from any added ancestors member. He instead abstruse by watching others and by volunteering to assignment in restaurants in his hometown.
(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)
"They would appetite to pay me, and I would say, 'No, I appear because I adulation to cook,'" Trejo says. "I had my own job, but I would go advice them baker for fun. It's a hobby. I aloof adore it."
And Trejo's adulation for affable shows in his menu.
There are the accepted Mexican offerings, such as burritos, nachos, enchiladas, fajitas and tacos.
(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)
But there are added options that aren't as accepted at Acadiana Mexican restaurants.
["717.8"]There's the torta, which is bootleg Mexican aliment that is topped with broiled onions, cilantro, queso adorn and either chicken, steak or pastor (pork that is marinated in broiled chiles, spices and pineapple afore actuality adapted on a vertical rotisserie).
There's the craven milaneza, a panko-breaded craven breast that is absurd and topped with salsa verde and diced tomatoes.
There's the jalapeno slices that are absurd up beginning instead of pickled for a simple but ambrosial side.
Trejo's admired card account is the Mexican tacos, a bowl of bristles small, collapsed blah tortillas that are topped with Oaxacan cheese, broiled onions, cilantro and best of chicken, beef, pastor, shrimp or steak. Trejo prefers the steak option.
(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)
Even the burger — article so abounding restaurants adumbrate in a freezer aloof to accord captious diners a safe card advantage — isn't overlooked.
The Mexican hamburger begins with fresh, acclimatized arena beef that is adapted on a collapsed top and is topped with ham, broiled onions, cheddar, salsa aguacate (avocado) and lettuce. The accompanying chips are cut in abode from accomplished potatoes.
Mason Romain, the restaurant's accepted manager, speaks awful of Trejo's affable and menu.
["776"]"My admired card account is either the birthmark enchiladas or the Mexican tacos," Romain says. "Our tacos are very, actual acceptable and are clashing anybody else's in town."
(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)
In accession to the beginning aliment Trejo cooks in the kitchen, there are the beginning margaritas Romain prepares at the bar.
"I clasp my own adhesive juice," Romain says.
The activity abaft the restaurant's aggregation is contagious.
"If you appetite to do something, do it," Trejo says. "It's never too early. It's never too late. You accept the ability. Aloof do it. The years go by, and afore you apperceive it, you didn't do anything.
"You don't try, you don't risk, you don't win."
El Asador is accessible from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The restaurant is bankrupt Monday.
El Asador is one of the abounding locally endemic restaurants accommodating in the summer dining attack Eat Lafayette. Mention the attack back you appointment El Asador, and you'll accept a chargeless adjustment of queso blanco. Limit one per table.
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How Are Authentic Mexican Tacos Different from American Tacos ... | authentic tacos near meThe restaurant is amid at 1605 N. University Ave. Apprentice added by visiting the "El Asador" Facebook folio or by calling 337-806-9555.
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