NPR spotlights District Taco—the taco-slinging food truck and restaurant that is confusingly not based in the District (read Y&H contributor Pervaiz Shallwani's take on Arlington's popular purveyor of cochinita pibil here)—as just the type of small business that might benefit from new federal legislation, called the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. Operator Osiris Hoil boasts [...]

At his corner restaurant in a Lee Highway strip mall, Osiris Hoil still pays deference to the Yucatan cooking of his childhood: There are refreshing salsas adapted from his mother’s recipes, dried chili peppers deployed like a secret ingredient to add depth, and a seven-hour technique that transforms tough pork shoulder into tender shavings of [...]

It seems appropriate that, on the heels of this week's cover story about food trucks and the brick and mortars that want to slash their tires (metaphorically speaking, OK?!), Y&H should focus on District Taco, a food cart that's moving to the great indoors. Owner Osiris Hoil figures it only makes sense to place his [...]

Osiris Hoil tells me that he's from Yucatan, Mexico, near Merida, and I tell him that I just visited the peninsula this summer.  We instantly bond. Specifically, we bond over the famous longaniza from Valladolid, these long ropes of sour and smokey sausages sold from roadside stands throughout the central part of the Yucatan. Then, [...]