New restaurant brings Detroit’s Mexicantown fare to Portage

PORTAGE, MI – The two cousins started out with a taco truck.

Then more taco trucks. Two years ago, they opened a Mexican restaurant in Roseville, a Detroit suburb, and then a second restaurant in Wyandotte.

Now, Luis Diaz and Eduardo Cavala have come to Portage, opening Tequila‘s, a Mexican restaurant and cantina near The Crossroads mall.

While the Kalamazoo area has a number of Mexican restaurants, “we think you need more authentic Mexican food,” Diaz said. “Our tacos are like what you would find in (Detroit’s) Mexicantown. It’s like going to a taco truck” in the heart of Detroit’s Mexican community, where Diaz and Cavala have lived for years.

Indeed, theirs is award-winning fare, Diaz said.

Over the years, starting with their taco trucks, the cousins have taken numerous awards for b