Capítulo 260: How Reyna Maldonado Is Taking Up Space At Levi's Stadium

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, we interview Reyna Maldonado, the force behind Las Guerreras Kitchen, a family owned and women led kitchen in Oakland. Reyna shares with us her journey bringing comida costeña, a style of cuisine from La Costa Grande, Guerrero, Mexico. Learn about her mother’s journey as a street vendor to Reyna’s journey as restaurantuer and why they're celebrating a new milestone: catering a national sporting event. Reyna tells us what it takes to cater an event of this magnitude and why it feels so special that an immigrant-owned business is serving 3,000 tamales and 5,000 mission-street style burritos.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed human.
0:04.4	Loca Tora Radio.
0:11.0	Hello, Ola Loca Mora, Mores.
0:17.6	I'm Diosa.
0:19.2	In advance of this weekend's football festivities and the main event, the Bad Bunny concert.
0:26.8	We have an interview with Reina Maldonado, the force behind Las Guerreras Kitchen, a family-owned and women-led kitchen in Oakland.
0:39.7	Reina shares with us her family's journey bringing Comilla Costa Grande Guerrero, Mexico. She shares with us her mother's journey
0:47.0	as a street vendor to Reina's journey as a restaurant tour. This weekend, they celebrate a new
0:53.5	milestone, catering the Super Bowl.
0:56.9	Reina tells us what it takes to cater an event of this magnitude and why it feels so special
1:03.2	that an immigrant business is serving 3,000 tamales and 5,000 Mission Street-style burritos.
1:11.6	Here's our interview with Reina.
1:14.6	Hi everyone, I'm Reina Maldonado.
1:18.6	I'm the co-founder of Las Guerreras, a restaurant located in downtown Oakland.
1:22.6	We are a family-owned business.
1:25.6	We have been around for six years now, and we were born in Guerrero, Mexico, and all of our dishes are traditionally from Guerrero.
1:34.3	When we first migrated here, we were in San Francisco.
1:38.3	My mom is really the one that started everything. She was a street vendor for 15 years and those 15 years
1:46.3	she built a really strong community and during that time I also grew up in a lot of community
1:52.9	organizations. A lot of them also hired my mom to be the caterer so she would bring tamales,
1:59.0	posole to our meetings to a lot of our action,
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