Tacos in the Street tomorrow!

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'Art Walk' this Friday night...  ...is going to be delicious!!! Craftsmen of all kinds have tools of their trade. Some tools are essential others are specialty tools only used for specific elements of the job.  The latter are the types of equipment that go on your wish list and may never actually make it into your tool bag.  Mataio recently packed his essentials--a bag full of knives and things--to head to New York for a week of working at Blue Hill Stone Barns in Tarrytown.  While he was there he worked long hours processing hundreds of pounds of vegetables, making a few thousand cookies, plating courses to be sent out to the dining room and drooling over the specialty equipment available to him in their state of the art kitchen.  Sometimes the tools we drool over are less sophisticated.  In our travels we always look to the cooks in each region to see what types of equipment they use.  Quite often we are introduced to new gadgets from that region that are responsible for some fabulous street food.  More than once we have lugged home a heavy cooking instrument that we just could not do without.   Five years ago we found ourselves in Mexico staying with friends who lived near Punta di Mita.  They took us to all the best taco places and we ate our fill of fabulous salsas and tacos.  In Sayulita we were introduced to tacos al pastor.  The story goes that the Mexican people adopted this style of spit-grilling meats from Lebanese immigrants moving to Mexico in the 1930s.  They built a similar vertical spit to those used for gyros and shawarma.  The spit sits on a grill and is layered with marinated pork and capped with pineapple that drips down on the meat below. The pork and pineapple are then shaved off into warm taco shells and served.  Mataio was so infatuated with these tacos and the fun tool they were using to cook the pork on, that he stood by the pastor and ate 14 tacos until he got the cook to talk to him.  The next day we drove around to little towns all around the area looking for an iron worker that made the rotisseries.  We finally found one in a courtyard full of beautiful iron sculptures, arches, fireplace grates and other implements.  Mataio had to have it and so we packaged it up in cardboard and bubblewrap and carried it through customs the next day as we got on the plane.   This Friday, June 3rd, it's time to pull the pastor spit out of the bag of tricks and have some tacos in the street!  It's Art Walk night downtown and we will be throwing a party in the street out in front of Ciao Thyme!  If you missed our POP-UP Restaurant 'Pizza Fever' night last month, do not let this one slip by.  We will be serving up fabulous Mexican flavors (with some Ciao Thyme flair), Mexican beers and sangria.  Items will be priced individually and you can get in to the event for a minimum of $15/ person.  Buy as many tickets as you like and choose what you want to spend them on tacos, pollo dorado, ceviche, salad, guacamole and more.  Spread the word and join us for some fun, Friday night from 6:00pm-10:00pm.   *Note to Parents - Children are welcome - they like Tacos in the Street too! Reservations are gladly accepted - We love to know who, how many, and when you are coming! If you have any questions - give us a call at 360.733.1267 or 360.927.4890       Ciao Thyme / In the Kitchen / Incognito 207 Unity Street Bellingham, WA 98225