A taste of home: Los Pingüinos combines traditional Mexican cuisine with fine dining techniques
Cristian Ochoa, left, and Christian Moreno, right, with his son Asher, are the partners behind Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
A chicken tinga street taco from Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen takes orders while parked at The Rancher's Daughter in Kalispell. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Cristian Ochoa, partner and chef of Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen, folds a steak burrito without rice in the food truck. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Cristian Ochoa, partner and chef of Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen, cuts steak in the food truck. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Cristian Ochoa, partner and chef of Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen, cuts steak in the food truck. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen, a new food truck in the Flathead Valley, serves tacos and burritos inspired by traditional Mexican cuisine. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
With backgrounds in fine and Michelin-star dining, Cristian Ochoa and Christian Moreno knew they would work well together. Now partners behind the new Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen food truck, the pair are excited about bringing more authentic Mexican classics to the streets of the Flathead Valley.
“I just wanted to keep it really simple and similar to the street tacos I grew up on,” Ochoa, the chef behind Los Pingüinos Mexican Kitchen, said. “But I also try to apply some of my fine dining training here... things that are maybe more refined or more detailed.”
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