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On Friday, Feb. 12, restaurant and bar industry workers can stop by Alex’s Bar for a free plate of fresh, made-from-scratch tacos courtesy of Eddie Rodriguez of City Farmer Taqueria and Curtin Maritime.<\/p>\n

The pop-up, which starts at noon and lasts until supplies run out, was conceived by Rodriguez as a way to uplift food and beverage industry workers during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

“Food brings up morale and brings people together,” Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n

Guests can choose from a plate with three tacos (choice of beef birria, pork carnitas, chorizo, or cauliflower chorizo), multias, tortas or papas gordas (potato confit). Rodriguez will also have a selection of six handmade salsas including salsa roja (red), tatemada, negra, and verde (green).<\/p>\n

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The papas gordas made of potato confit, caramelized onions, chipotle aioli, salsa negra and carnitas mixta will be available to order at Friday’s pop-up in-front of Alex’s Bar. Image courtesy Eddie Rodriguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rodriguez said he’s prepping enough food for 300 people.<\/p>\n

“I don’t wanna show up with a bunch of free food and nobody get it,” he said.<\/p>\n

This is not the first pop-up Rodriguez has organized at Alex’s Bar; last month he handed out free, made-to-order pizzas. Seeing that so many people had shown up to take one home was encouraging, but he wanted to do more.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is currently the executive head chef at Curtin Maritime, a marine construction company in the Port of Long Beach. Prior to the pandemic, Rodriguez had started his own taco pop-up, City Farmer Taqueria, but had to shut down due to the pandemic. Prior to that, he had set-up shop outside of Alex’s Bar twice.<\/p>\n

All of the food has been donated by Curtin Maritime, aside from a selection of breads donated by the Long Beach Beer Lab<\/a> in Wrigley.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez said he plans to host more of these in the upcoming months, so long as there is need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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