The Secret Behind Tommy Tacos: Freshly Made Food with Love

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Tommy Tacos is a locally owned establishment in Huntington, founded by Tommy and his wife Elisa in July 2020. Bringing nearly 30 years of experience from some of New York’s top restaurants, Tommy aimed to set a new standard for fast-casual cuisine in the area.

His philosophy centers around delivering delicious, freshly made food with love. Tommy dedicates significant time to source the highest-quality ingredients, employing meticulous preparation methods such as slow-braising pork, chicken, and brisket for hours.

Signature dishes like the birria tacos, which are a daily sell-out, showcase the exceptional quality. Steaks are trimmed before marinating and searing, ensuring perfection in every bite. Daily in-house preparation includes crafting marinades, salsas, guacamole, and corn fritter batter with fresh, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible.

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Tommy’s commitment extends to using 100% nixtamalized corn tortillas for added nutrition. The menu also features unique “Agua Frescas” made from fresh fruits, along with delightful desserts like churro funnel cake. Special pop-up items like whoopie pies, crispy rice treats, brownies, and more add an extra touch.

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In addition to serving up the freshest tacos on Long Island, Tommy recently added a bar to his location offering up the finest tequilas and best fresh or frozen margaritas around! Make sure to check out Tommy Tacos located at 821 New York Ave in Huntington and more information, check out their website here.

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Watch owners of Tommy Tacos, Elisa and Tommy, discuss “tipping” on our “Let’s Get Local” podcast below!

Melissa Farrell

Melissa Farrell has a mission to support local business by "Going Local." As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them. Melissa started Going Local Tours & Experiences back in 2020 during the pandemic in hopes to bring people back into local restaurants and shops. She created food tours in Huntington, NY that would stop at 3-4 local businesses and gave the guests the chance to meet the owner and hear the story behind the business. She soon realized how powerful storytelling is when connecting people to local businesses and created options with local store owners as well to bring them onto the tour to share their story. Melissa wanted to expand out of Huntington to be able to support even more local businesses and started creating luxury picnics where she would bring local to you! She would find local businesses in the area of the picnic set up and deliver it to you offering ways to support over 3 local businesses at each picnic. This wasn't enough. She wanted to find a better way to help spread awareness of local businesses and share their stories. Enter Evangeline Knell...a woman with over 30 years of broadcasting experience who somehow convinced Melissa to host a 3 day live stream from the Huntington Fall Festival. She had never been on camera before, but working alongside Evie to create the 3 shows, gave Melissa the confidence to take on the challenge. The 3 shows produced focused on the local vendors, the food trucks and the events that occurred at the festival and had a much larger reach than Melissa could ever of done on her own. They soon realized a business partnership was needed and combined their two businesses, Identity Digital which is a production company and Going Local Tours and Experiences to form Going Local Media. Evie and Melissa even formed their own distribution outlet by creating Going Local TV, a streaming platform like Netflix or YouTube, that is all about local businesses, events and organizations on Long Island. There are over 200 videos including their podcast series "Let's Get Local" "Long Island Business Minds" and "Local Business Spotlight" that help spread awareness of our local businesses and Long Island Professionals. They are always thinking up new ways to support local, including this site, Going Local Today that is a directory of articles on how to Go Local on Long Island. We appreciate you taking the time to read this and for supporting local! Thank you!

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