Tortillas and ->-bleeped-<-s at Dallas Taquerías

[Shana A]

Tortillas and ->-bleeped-<-s at Dallas Taquerías
Transgender "travesty shows" help fill the seats at Dallas taquerías.
By Jose Ralat Maldonado Thursday, May 5 2011

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-05-05/news/tacos-y-mas/

The restaurant, one-room Los Altos de Jalisco on Abrams Road, is decorated with beer flags and framed pastoral scenes leading back to a galley kitchen, where the cook is better at flirting with the waitress than reheating tortillas. It's a sleepy place during lunch hours, when, if more than one table is occupied, it's a rush. But that's not uncommon among the scores of tiny taco shops across the city. The only thing that makes Los Altos stand out from other taco joints is the white delivery van parked outside. Pasted on its sides are colorful ads for weekend drag shows.

Somehow, the brightly made-up images of women who were once men don't attract much of a lunchtime clientele. At night, it's a different world.