Food Truck Entrepreneurs Open Mexican Birria Eatery in Middletown

Childhood friends Alan Ortiz and Itzel Flores have known each other since they were five and grew up playing soccer together in Middletown before going on separate career tracks after college.  However, the pandemic, along with its changes, prompted them to take a fresh look at life, which led both to quit their jobs for food truck entrepreneurship.  Birria, a West Coast-style Mexican street food featuring stewed meat, was at the menu’s heart.  Two years later, after overcoming a broken truck, snowstorms, and summer heat, the duo took their budding entrepreneurship to a storefront off Dolson Avenue in Middletown.  “It has been quite a trajectory,” Mr. Ortiz told The Epoch Times at the grand opening ceremony on Jan. 13. “It is our friendship that brought us to build the dream and achieve what we have now.” ...