Carrera’s Tacos Opens in Greenwood Village

“We just knew that you couldn’t go find that food, and there’s other people we’ve met over the time we’ve been here who are all coming from California, and it was always the same question,” says Ryan Carrera, who moved to Denver from San Diego in 2018, six months after his brother Joshua.

The question: where to find California-style Mexican food in Denver. Ryan and Joshua both have extensive restaurant experience, including stints at fine-dining spots like Sushi Den and the James Beard-nominated Trust in San Diego.  In 2019, the brothers decided to go all in on making the food they missed from home, launching Carrera’s Tacos as a catering business. “Right off the bat, we got really busy,” Joshua recalls. “We were booking events just by posting on Instagram and Yelp.”

He was still…