Food Network to feature restaurant founded in Tahoe
JimBoy’s Tacos, which was founded in a camper trailer in 1954 at Kings Beach, is going national.
The Food Network is planning to film a segment at the Folsom location this fall. Last week’s shoot had to be rescheduled (new date not yet released) because a member of the TV crew got ill.
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri recommended the chain for “Guilty Pleasures”; especially for its ground beef taco.
Most of the chain’s nearly 40 locations are in Northern California, though the first one in Orange County opened last weekend.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
I remember the location in South Lake Tahoe they had some really good tacos. That went away with the start of redevelopment to bad they did not get another location locally.
There used to be a trailer in front of the Bal Bijou, The best Taco’s I’ve ever had.
Yeah, they kept Taco Bell instead. So much for redevelopment being progress!
Another X Local, which Taco Bell was in a redevelopment area? And if you use your selective memory maybe you might remember the shoddy buildings that Jimboy’s and all it’s neighbors occupied. Oh, I forgot, so many like minded people as you yearn for a return to the blight that was the Hwy 50 corridor through town that could just as easily have been a motel row in Waco Tx.
Don’t matter where it was, they still had the best TACO’s
The first Jimboy’s was what is now Izzy’s by Sierra Blvd. . . there is still one on South Virginia in Reno, & one in Placerville (the last exit B4 heading back to Tahoe). . .
‘Redevelopment’ had nothing to do with Jimboys. . .
The first Jim Boy’s on the South Shore Was at the parking lot at Bal Bijou in a small trailer and I believe it was 1953 or 54.
JimBoy’s tacos near Ski Run was gone long before redevelopment began.
Forty five years ago my parents took me to the JimBoy’s at the flea market in Roseville.