Inside Swell Dive: Just Your Average Filipino Tex-Mex Taco Spot

Roy Choi essentially gave birth to the modern food truck movement, when he debuted L.A.’s Korean taco-serving Kogi back in 2008. Not only that, but he asserted the tortilla as an ideal vessel for unifying wholly disparate cuisines, conveying everything from bulgogi to curry to Jewish brisket. Which is why eight years later and on the other side of the continent, a Bed-Stuy spot called Swell Dive, trumpeting Filipino/Tex-Mex, barely raises an eyebrow. Especially since it too views tortillas