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The Only Type of Restaurant I Won’t Post About
Several weeks ago, my friend Greg Castillo and I visited a private home in Ennis for carnitas tacos. Greg, a video journalist, had found out about the business, Carnitas Conejo, on TikTok.To get to the tacos, we walked up the driveway of Oscar Conejo and his wife, Juana Mendoza, underneath their carport, and onto their covered patio. There Conejo, a third-generation carnitero (carnitas master) and Michoacán native, cooked the pork in lard in three cazos (traditional pots). In one day, Conejo would sell up to 1,400 pounds of carnitas.A young man chopped the finished pork and filled taco orders. At the back of the patio, a troop of women in aprons pulled masa from tubs and pressed them into large corn tortillas. The young man…The post The Only Type of Restaurant I Won’t Post About appeared first on Texas Monthly.