Tio's Tacos in Riverside is all about great food in the midst of a folk art fantasyland! Artist Martin Sanchez has assembled masterpieces of recycled materials into a true folk art Disneyland! Liza and I take a tour of Tio'sTacos and interview Martin about his artistic process. Of course we have a great meal too. This is a true must-see location in Riverside.
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So I'm here with my daughter Liza at Tio's Tacos in Riverside. Can you believe this place Liza?
What do you think? It's pretty amazing. I mean you had pointed out before every square inch,
like all these bottles in the walls behind us, everything, the floor has shells in it.
There's skeletons buried in the ground. We won't ask, you know, it could be a crime scene, but
I hope not. I made an arrangement with Martin that you're going to be in here as well. Nice.
And when did you start? Right here, I started right here in 1990. 1990, okay. So and you got
through COVID. You got through this period. Good for you. Was it hard? Was it hard to get through
this period? Yeah, it was difficult, but you know our team is really good. Most of our team has been
over 20 years when my parents started. So our team was by our side, and we all kind of got
through it together. And our community as well, when we opened, because we were actually close
friends, when we opened back up, our community just like, we were missed. They were waiting in
line. Yeah, so we thank our community as well for always being so kind to us. Oh, that's great to
hear. Well, Kimberly and Sanchez, thank you for this incredible, beautiful, beautiful wonderland.
You've got to come to Riverside. Tio's Tacos will show you the amazing and great food. We just had
the food, loved it, but come down and check it out. Thank you. We continue on our trip. Thank
you for coming. Mi casa es su casa. There we go. Pat Pattison, Best of California Award. Talk to you
soon. Hi, I'm here at Tio's Tacos and not only is this an incredible place with artwork,
it also has incredible food, of course. I got the chilaquiles rojos. And what did you get, Josh?
I got the two taco plate with potato here, and an extra taco on the side of asada.
It was so good, he had to have more. Let's check it out. Really good so far. Super good. Yum.
I just love my father so much.
