tacos don nacho
only businesses are gay this year. here is a list of gay businesses near my house:
coffe king, a cafe and fonda. coffe with one e is a thing, don't worry about it
hotel ibiza, a hotel de paso / love hotel that despite the flag and the rainbow-patterned entryway is not the "gay" hotel of the block. that would be hotel pennyslvania, famous for cruising and chemsex. about a year ago i finally deleted grindr because 1) i was sick of seeing ads for that game where you save a king, a king is the last person i'd want to save and 2) the majority of the messages i received where from guys in the hotel, mostly "fumes" (do you want to smoke crack with me) or their room number but sometimes extensive photo arrays sent photo per photo despite grindr's album feature where you don't necessarily have to blow up someone's phone in order to show them 5-11 angles of your dick and/or hole
VIPs, lets call it the denny's of mexico, which in addition to a rainbow portal-like entryway they've installed also has inspirational phrases like "love who you want" written on the window
Panda Express, or is it Tok's? which has been described to me as an upscale VIPs, which have a lot more inspirational phrases, which makes me wonder if VIPs, Panda Express, and Tok's are all owned by the some conglomerate that give its marketing people a list of phrases they were allowed to post on the windows of their establishments. no they aren't owned by the same conglomerate, tok's is owned by grupo gigante, which also owns panda express and office depot among others while vip's is owned by alsea. one of the higher-ups at alsea is an important patron of contemporary art, well his wife is, and he is rumored to collect nazi memorabilia which is profoundly unsurprising. unless i'm mixing up names. i probably am :) anyway the tok's/panda express has "live in the moment, love who you love" or something written on the window which actually isn't bad advice, thank you grupo gigante, surely you're not nazis
Hong Kong Singapore Banking Company (HSBC)
la cabaña, a karaoke + wings + micheladas spot around the corner from my house, kind of diagonally (is that kitty-korner?) to hotel pennsylvania
la diabla, essentially the same as la cabaña but a block closer to the monument
el nueve flor, a comida corrida restaurant with a full bar and weekly pizza buffet
el alebrije, a new restaurant which not only has a flag up but also “cockteles 2x1” written in rainbow font. the k does not appear in the spanish word, is it intentional? is it a gay bar? i would’ve liked to open a gay bar there, with a long bar and a grand piano, maybe a dark room. you’d have to know which door
and of course tacos don nacho, which i've written about here before i think, remember? i went there the first time because i like the idea of my dog owning a taco shop but the tacos are actually really good. once i went there drunk and called the two guys who work there handsome, which they are. a month or three ago a k-pop group stopped there to eat tacos and took pictures, left a message on their wall, and now this group's fans come regularly to eat the same order of tacos, take a picture of the tacos, take a picture of the message, take a picture of the picture of the group, and so on. when i went there drunk they told me what the k-pop band ordered, so-and-so got this, so-and-so got that, or maybe it was just a list of the tacos they got? anyway i don't remember the specifics but i do remember that they knew, which for me was the more important part
when i go there i order tacos de asada with tortillas de harina. the asada comes with melty caramelized onions. what i imagine happens is that the asada, which here tends to be strips of strip or flank steak, hits the piping hot griddle and as it sizzles the cook, bearded and wearing a baseball cap, squirts the mystery sauce - in my house the mystery sauce has no mystery, it's bragg's liquid aminos, but outside of the house i prefer mystery - onto the asada, which suddenly sizzles louder, quickly adds the caramelized onions, then tips the mess onto a warm flour tortilla. the trick is to cook the asada enough so that it doesn't give you worms but not so much that it gets rubbery
there's a lot more on the menu, including a whole section called "lorenzas," who is she? but who IS she? but i always order the same thing because i specifically go there when i am specifically craving two tacos de asada con tortilla de harina with a michelada served to me in a glass recently taken out of the freezer. you can order something else when you go