When Gina Petti and Roberto Cortez moved from San Francisco to the Upstate 15 years ago, they didn’t plan on becoming pioneers of the Upstate’s food truck movement or opening a restaurant.
"We were social cooks at first,” says Cortez, co-owner of ASADA. “We love to be creative and to experiment with food. Cooking together is how we communicate – it’s a connection between the two of us and to other people.”
Cooking for friends gave the couple a chance to try out their recipes, but a food truck, affectionately named LOLA, put their passion to the test.
“LOLA was my crazy idea,” Cortez says. “It was a way to see how people would respond to our style of food.”
