29th Annual Wild & Crazy Taco Night
More than 700 guests enjoyed specialty tacos from 16 celebrated Orange County chefs featuring libations from CaliFino Tequila, Deschutes Brewery and New Belgium Brewing’s Fruit Smash hard seltzer. Hosted by the Share Our Selves Foundation, the event was held on Thursday, May 19, at OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
Once again, this foodie tradition raised over $100,000 in support of Share Our Selves social services. The comprehensive services address issues including food and housing insecurity and overall wellness of our neighbors who are low-income and experiencing homelessness.
Guests tasted curated tacos exclusively for this event with the opportunity to vote for the Yelper’s Choice Award “Fan-Favorite Taco” presented by our Premiere Sponsor, Yelp. This year’s winner was Chef Fonzy De Zuniga of Descanso. Chef Fonzy De Zuniga proved to be a fan favorite winning his second year in a row. This year serving up a creation of duck birria, habanero red pickled onions, cilantro, edible flowers and gold flakes on a cheese crusted blue corn tortilla.
We thank our generous restaurants, beverage partners, and sponsors for their generous contributions to benefit the 29th Annual Wild & Crazy Taco Night!
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2022 Participating Restaurants
Hector Zamora
Fonzy De Zuniga
Rich Mead
Five Crowns and SideDoor
Matt Luna
Marco Zapien
Sal Gonzalez
Greg Byma
Pascal Olhats
Ross Pangilinan & Nick Weber
Paul Buchanan
Erik Aronow
Natalie Aleksandrova
Chris Tzorin
Kenneth Williams & Andy De La Cruz
2022 SPONSORS
Habanero
The Sharon D. Lund Foundation
Pinata
Debbie Millar
DMP Properties
The Frome Family Foundation
Hoag
South Coast Plaza
Cactus
Jay Donoghue
Dr. Gwyn Parry
Laurie Dubachansky
Med Tech Solutions
Pacific Hospitalists Associates
PCV Murcor
ServiceNow – John Spriko
Thompson Family Foundation
Dr. Vik and Shama Mehta
Sombrero
Adams’ World Travel
Dr. Alberto and Jori Mendivil
Alkeme Insurance Services
AT Consulting
Bob and Anne Cress
Enterprise Bank & Trust
Fletcher and Jones Motorcars
Gary Bess Associates
Haskell Collection
Lynn and Roger Tomalas
Med Tech Solutions
Mike and Pam Howard
OneDigital
Patricia Doyle
Prestige Medical Group
Dr. Richard and Sandie Haskell
Susan and Kevin Daly
Western Community Housing, Inc.
UNDERWRITERS
Faye and Ali Azadi
Jim and Diane Bailey
Beach City Car Wash
Flor and Emma Buncab
Saundra Campbell
Randy and Jenice Carter
Ski and Kathy Harrison
Will and Annick Klatte
Jake and Andi Rohrer
Dr. Roberta Lessor & Dr. David Snow
Alice Tutunjian
2022 EVENT DONORS
Anonymous
Susan and Kevin Daly
Annie Gerard
Manning Homes
Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard
Susan J. Markowitz
On-site Lasermedic Corp.
Linda and Kevin Pitts
Nancy Schmoldt
Nancy and Geoffrey Stack