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COVER STORY FOR A STANDOUT TACO, Then, Chef Roy Choi started the taco revolution, famously turning his popular SIMPLICITY ONCE RULED. Korean Kogi taco truck into an empire of PACK A HOUSEMADE brick-and-mortar restaurants in Los An- TORTILLA WITH CARNE geles. Tacos moved beyond their origins, requiring more than that perfect three- ASADA INSPIRED BY SU bite expression of the Mexican table to ABUELA, ADD SALSA OR turn heads. CHOPPED ONIONS AND “Tacos are a great platform for flavor,” says Matt Drummond, executive chef at CILANTRO. DONE. Loco Taqueria & Oyster Bar in Boston. “They’re composed dishes. Pretty much anything you can put on a piece of china or porcelain, you can put on a corn torti- lla as well.” Taco offerings on restaurant menus have risen 32.4 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to a recent Technomic Shelling Out for survey. Once-exotic offerings like carnitas, carne asada and Baja shrimp tacos are now commonplace. Chefs are proving tacos are as much global as they are seasonal, seeking re- gional influences from the homeland and beyond. Unusual proteins and seasonal ingredients fill the shell—which is not al- ways corn. Made in-house, tortillas can be creative, too. Tacos go global with jerk spiced catfish, snap pea kimchee and mango cream at TD’s Pop-Up in Mexican street food Portland, Oregon. stretches far beyond BY PETERits GIANOPULOS origins T Based in Portland, Maine, Tortilleria Pachanga uses locally grown and milled corn for its tortillas, acosgiving customers an on- trend selling point.