Both of his trucks specialize in Mexico City-style comfort food like pambazos, tacos and more.
"Since I was fourteen, I started cooking in Mexico," he recalls. So when he arrived in Colorado, he leaned on those skills."I mean, that's the only thing I could do, since my English was not really good," he adds. "I worked for Sushi Den, then ViewHouse, and I used to run Tom's Watch Bar — I was the kitchen manager there. I worked at a bunch of places."
After being an employee in other people's kitchens for years, Quintero decided to venture out on his own, with a food truck dubbed Que Desmadre, which means"What a mess" in Spanish — and its beginnings were indeed a bit messy. "I started right when the pandemic happened," he says."It sucked, because I invested all my money in one truck and then literally, within three months, the whole city shut down. l was like, what the fuck? That's crazy.
Both trucks focus on Mexican comfort food and offer similar staples, including one of Quintero's favorites, pambazo, a Mexican sandwich made with pambazo bread that's dipped and fried in a red guajillo chile sauce."It's a Mexican burger, kind of," he explains."It's really popular in Mexico City, like on the street with the vendors."
The chicken tinga tacos offered by Mas Chingon are a nostalgic favorite for Quintero."We do our own special sauce for it," he says."I basically make my chicken tinga tacos the way my mom taught me how to do it. It's really good, really special."Now, with two food trucks in operation and business booming, Quintero often reflects on how far he's come and how his dream for a better life became a reality."I live a different life, you know.
Quintero's next goal is to open his own bar."I'm doing a tour of Mexico in May. I'm trying to bring a really nice concept from Mexico City to Colorado," he says."I already have the idea; I just want to go and bring some recipes from Mexico."
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