DJ Flores has two new ventures in the works, a cocktail bar and a tortilleria.
Kyria Media"Milpa" is the Spanish term for a cornfield, but if you utter the word to a local or food-motivated tourist in Las Vegas, they might know it as chef DJ Flores' restaurant, which serves some of the freshest corn tortillas outside of Mexico thanks to his house-groundWhile the Las Vegas Strip is home to a plethora of flashy food joints -- many of which are backed by world renowned celebrity chefs offering culinary experiences to teleport your taste buds anywhere in the...
Once Flores felt like he'd "extinguished" his opportunities for new knowledge in Vegas, he recalled thinking, "'No one's doing anything here that's pushing Mexican cuisine.' I would see other restaurants in California or New York or even Mexico City and I was like, 'Wow, they're really doing something with Mexican cuisine.'"
Eating his way through notable restaurants, markets and street food stalls alike on the side, Flores' unlocked his true passion for authentic Mexican cuisine, giving him the key to his eventual food business empire."It was my first experience of a good corn tortilla. For family meals, the staff asked me to go to the molino to get fresh tortillas," he reminisced of picking up the food staple.
Shifting strategies, he said, "I kind of geared the menu for to-go with the taco bowls and tortillas on the side, and it worked -- we started getting some more sales, I could afford marketing, then we got the attention with the locally and it snowballed into what it is now."
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