Best of the City 2021: Eat + Drink La Gloria’s Margarita Truck
Chef Johnny Hernandez took his own advice about getting creative to bring his food to customers and came up with one of the best ideas of the past year: the margarita truck. If you have memories of an ice cream truck in your neighborhood, the thrill as an adult of seeing his pink truck roll up in front of your house is even better. Find out on La Gloria’s website or social media where one of two trucks will be for the day and place an order online if you’re in the delivery area. Just remember, Texas law says that you must order food when you get your drinks.
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Joe King Carrasco y Colectivo Chihuahua, “Mariachi Blues” (Anaconda). The latest from the onetime nuevo-wavo MTV star is his first album since 2015’s “Chiliando,” and it’s an intriguing change of pace. There’s less Tex-Mex synthesis here, and more straight-ahead bluesy, guitar-based rock & roll. Recorded at studios in France, Mexico and Central Texas, “Mariachi Blues” features Carrasco on guitar, bass and keyboards, with engineer Luis Murillo on drums and percussion throughout. Carrasco co-produced with Murillo and Rick Del Castillo, who handled bass and keyboards on a couple of tracks. Highlights include the deep blues groover “Dallas (Seen the Last of Me)”; the rhythmic reggae accents of “John Dillinger”; the sociopolitical overtones of the pre-release single “King King”; the 1970s-Latin-rock ton