Restaurants in Downtown Bakersfield are cooking up their specialties hoping to win people over in the 9th Annual Taste of Downtown. 23ABC's Ava Kershner takes us just down the street from the 23ABC studio for an award-winning meal in this Doing Downtown.
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00:00 All right, well, restaurants in downtown Bakersfield are cooking up their specialties, hoping to win people over in the ninth annual Taste of Downtown.
00:06 23 ABC's Ava Kirshner takes us just down the street from our 23 ABC studios for an award-winning meal in this week's Doin' Downtown.
00:14 Ava! Hey!
00:17 Good!
00:18 What are you doing down here?
00:19 I just got off work at the station. I'm going to get some lunch from my favorite place.
00:22 Really? So am I, but I don't know where to go.
00:24 Oh, well, okay. So last week you showed me your favorite place.
00:28 Yeah.
00:28 This week I'm going to show you the favorite place of 23 ABC where every new employee goes on their very first day.
00:35 Let's go check it out.
00:36 Right down the block.
00:37 Well, we're gearing up for Taste of Downtown and getting a little sneak peek at Nuestro's awesome meal.
00:48 I'm so ready to dig in, but first we've got to get a little bit of info from you guys.
00:52 So for our viewers that may not know much about your awesome restaurant, can you give us some background information?
00:57 Okay, we have eight years counting at this location.
01:01 And the most popular dish is pastor tacos.
01:07 The food is from Mexico City and Puebla.
01:11 The other dish is the taquitos con cilantro and cheese.
01:15 It's an appetizer, but it's really tasty.
01:18 So Gus was telling me that these tacos are award-winning tacos.
01:22 Can you tell me more about that?
01:24 Okay, it was a surprise when we figured it out by Trillis.
01:29 It was a best taco in California.
01:32 Wow. Statewide taco.
01:34 Yes, the steak and the pastor tacos.
01:37 They call it street tacos, but it's a regular side taco.
01:41 They're not like big, tiny.
01:43 Okay, we're done finally just looking at the food.
01:46 We're ready to dig in.
01:47 I'm ready to get a taste of downtown.
01:49 We should start with the appetizers.
01:50 Please.
01:52 Mmm.
01:54 It's like the cilantro.
01:56 Yeah.
01:57 Taste it.
01:58 Yeah.
01:59 That's good.
02:00 I'm ready to try the pineapple flavor.
02:03 Look at this perfect bite.
02:05 Let's dive in.
02:07 Good?
02:08 Mm-hmm.
02:09 Mm-hmm.
02:10 So good.
02:11 So good.
02:13 Even the side dishes, top-notch.
02:17 And then we wash it down with a beautiful hot taco.
02:22 Love it.
02:24 And if you've never been into Westeros, you can't miss it.
02:27 It's the most colorful building on 21st Street,
02:30 and it's one of the businesses in the Taste of Downtown competition.
02:33 Taste of Downtown happening September 14th at Iron Lily.
02:36 For more information, you can always go to BakersfieldDBA.com
02:40 and see all the restaurants that are going to be participating,
02:43 just like next week, where we get to see the food.
02:46 And next week, where we're going to take you to another location
02:49 so you can see who else is participating in the Taste of Downtown.
02:52 We'll see you next week.