Brussels sprouts are a customer favorite at C Rojo's. 

Tyler restaurant C Rojo’s Gourmet Taqueria will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) in early January.

America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on Jan. 10.

Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with owners Rogelio and Carrie Mendiola Tellez about the restaurant’s special place in the community.

The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.

C Rojo’s Taqueria began as a food truck, C Rojo’s Mobile Cuisine, in 2019. The first brick-and-mortar location in North Tyler opened exactly a year to the day later but closed in September. The newest location on South Broadway Avenue opened this summer.

The taqueria serves from-scratch Mexican and Pacific Islander fusion, the inspiration for which was Carrie’s “pickiness” when it came to food, said Rogelio. He began to mix the two cuisines in an attempt to broaden her palate.

The extensive menu offers an array of unusual choices, from shrimp tacos with mango pico to soppe con green chorizo to kimchi fries to a brussels sprout filling for tacos and burritos.

“It’s become really popular,” Tellez said of the brussels sprouts, describing the dish as a mix of Asian flair and Italian flair. “It’s a little different.”

The restaurant also has homemade corn and flour tortillas, green chorizo made only in Toluca, Mexico, and other gourmet tacos such as pastor.

America’s Best Restaurants will be filming on location Jan. 10.

The restaurant’s finished episode premiere date will be announced on their Facebook page and will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants’ website at https://americasbestrestaurants.com/rests/texas/rojos-gourmet-taqueria.

Restaurants featured on the ABR Roadshow are found through customer nominations or by a restaurant applying to be featured at www.americasbestrestaurants.com.

C Rojo’s is one of 44 Texas restaurants featured on America’s Best Restaurants thus far, according to ABR’s website. C Rojo’s has also received statewide recognition, featured on Texas Monthly’s Texas Country Reporter in January 2023. The Tyler restaurant has also been nominated and won the Tyler Morning Telegraph’s Best In Town awards.

C Rojo’s Taqueria is open from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. C Rojo’s Taqueria is located at 7205 S Broadway Ste 100, Tyler TX 75706. The restaurant can be reached at (903) 630-4814. For more information, visit www.c-rojos-taqueria.com.

America’s Best Restaurants is based in Florence, Kentucky. ABR travels the country telling the stories and highlighting the unique food of locally owned independent restaurants as part of their ABR Roadshow. Restaurants are featured not only on ABR’s Restaurant Network of social media channels and website, but also each individual establishment’s Facebook page.

With over 1,000 episodes filmed, America’s Best Restaurants is known as a premier marketing agency for restaurant owners and operators to have their story broadcast coast-to-coast. Visit AmericasBestRestaurants.com to learn more and to view the episodes and profiles of hundreds of America’s Best Restaurants.

Want to nominate your favorite restaurant? Visit https://consumer.americasbestrestaurants.com/nominate.