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Los Jefes Mexican Street Food brings tacos and tortas to Duncanville
Los Jefes Mexican Street Food
There's Mexican street food now happening in Duncanville, thanks to Los Jefes Mexican Street Food, a new restaurant located in the space previously occupied by Mudhook Bar & Kitchen at 100 S. Main St. #101B, where it opened in late March.
Los Jefes is from Jesus Nájera and Sebastian Lozano, who started the concept as a food truck in Forney in 2022. It's still in business. They also own Junction Coffee, a coffee truck at The Junction Fireworks and Food Truck park in Forney.
The restaurant in Duncanville is their first brick-and-mortar venture.
Signature items on the menu include the pan-fried quesabirria tacos with consomme, plus street tacos with traditional fillings including barbacoa, beefsteak, pastor, trompo, and chicken, $2.50 each.
Tortas come with a similar selection of fillings, served on puffy toasted rolls. There are also quesadillas and soft pirata tacos, a northern Mexico specialty with a flour tortilla enclosing steak and cheese.
Sides include elote, corn in a cup; charro beans with bacon; and "dirty beans," an entree-style dish featuring charro beans fortified with meat.
Drinks include Mexican sodas, aguas frescas, and housemade horchata; they're applying for a liquor license so they can run a full bar.
Lozano, who previously worked in restaurant management at places like XOXO Dining Room and San Martin Bakery, says the menu was inspired from recipes they learned as children watching their grandma.
“We used to get together at our grandparents’ house and got to experience many dishes that our grandma cooked for her loved ones,” Lozano says. “We started cooking by assisting our grandmother with mixing ingredients, which eventually led us to the restaurant industry over 15 years ago."
"Our food truck represents our kitchen, we are proud to share the taste of our region to The Forney community,” Lozano says. “The Duncanville location came from being inspired by Forney; we thought that it was time for another corner of the DFW to know about us.”
