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(Credit: Courtesy Tres Mijas, 2022)
Jenna and Mike Fernandez stand in their food truck, aptly named for their three daughters, Maiven, Olive and Remi.
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(Credit: Gordon Woodworth, 2022)
Mike Fernandez and his mother Brenda Fernandez in the Tres Mijas food truck.
A new Mexican food truck is making a spicy splash in the Glens Falls area.
Tres Mijas, owned by Mike and Jenna Fernandez of Glens Falls, began offering its authentic tacos, burritos, enchiladas and tostadas in May, first parking in front of Glens Falls Hospital.
“We had a pretty good idea that people were going to like the food, but we just had no idea it would spread and become such a hit so quickly,” Mike Fernandez told FoothillsBusinessDaily.com. He grew up in San Jose, Calif., has worked in the restaurant business for much of his life, and most recently tended bar for five years at the Caroline Street Pub in Saratoga Springs for Charlie Hoertkorn and Dan Drellos.
“I know how popular food trucks are and how, outside of the Shirt Factory events on Thursday nights, that was lacking in the Glens Falls area,” Fernandez said.
When another business opportunity didn’t pan out during COVID, the couple decided to take the leap.
The name Tres Mijas honors the couple’s three daughters — six-year-old Maiven, four-year-old Remi and Olive, who is almost 2 — and reflects the family affair behind the jet black food truck.
“We absolutely could not do what we do without our village of support,” Fernandez said.
His mom, Brenda Fernandez, creates many of the sauces, and his father Joe, who was born in Mexico, is “the ultimate salsa maker and enchilada roller who you can frequently catch in the back corner of the truck chopping away and keeping the food coming.”
A slew of aunts and uncles and cousins also help out with the kids while they are busy with the truck, he said.
“Our enchiladas and our tacos are our most popular items,” he said. “It's all about those homemade sauces made by Nana! People also really love our homemade chips and salsa. It is all so fresh and delicious.”
Tres Mijas will be back in front of the hospital weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. once work on the parking lots concludes, Fernandez said.
Tuesday nights they do a “kitchen takeover” at Gaslight in Lake George.
Wednesday nights they are at the newly renovated Moran-Derby Park in Hudson Falls for their community night.
Thursday nights they are at the Shirt Factory’s weekly event, and the weekends are for special events throughout the area, like Up Yonda Farm’s 25th anniversary celebration last weekend in Bolton.
Business the first three months has been strong, “and we’ve got lots of room to grow,” Fernandez said. “We’re going to do more catering and we’ll have online ordering all set up in a couple of weeks.”
Menus and updates are posted daily on the Tres Mijas Facebook and Instagram pages.
“The amount of support we have received from this community so far has been very humbling,” he said.