LA hot spot HomeState’s newest celeb collaboration joins star-studded line-up: Hayley Williams, Fred Armisen and more

On nan heels of their majorly successful “Parachute” taco pinch Hayley Williams, Los Angeles’ popular taco spot HomeState is revealing their newest collaboration pinch comedian Atsuko Okatsuka.

HomeState announced Thursday nan caller collab, which is an hold of their set program, will beryllium a departure from tacos pinch a caller constricted clip Tex-Mex bowl.

“It is simply a immense thing. It’s decidedly a first clip thing,” HomeState’s laminitis & CEO, Briana Valdez, exclusively told Page Six, adding that Okatsuka and her husband, Ryan Harper Gray, person been predominant customers since her first edifice successful Hollywood opened successful 2013.

The Atsuko Bowl — which will beryllium disposable to customers from May 6 – June 14 successful conjunction pinch nan comedian’s “Big Bowl Tour” and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month — will blend Japanese and Tejano ingredients.

Valdez told america it was highly important to them to item nan Mexican American and Japanese American cultures successful nan caller bowl.

“We’re really proud of it and I deliberation that group are going to emotion it,” nan Texas autochthonal said. “I mean, I’m obsessed pinch it. I deliberation it is truthful good. It’s truthful delicious.”

The vessel includes Kokuho Calrose atom from California — akin to sushi rice, but pinch lime juice alternatively of atom vinegar — achiote-marinated chicken, achromatic beans, mushrooms, shredded cabbage, pickled jalapeños and topped pinch sour cream, tortilla strips, cilantro and a miso-chipotle sauce.

HomeState’s set program, which began successful 2015 and includes erstwhile collaborations pinch Questlove, Phoebe Bridgers, Leon Bridges, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, The Marías and Fred Armisen, has raised complete $500,000 for nonprofit organizations.

Okatsuka’s vessel and Williams’ caller taco are presently raising money for The Immigrant Defenders Law Center, who activity to take sides migrant communities.

“They are doing specified important work,” Valdez told us. “It feels it feels really bully to beryllium aligned successful that pinch this partner and beryllium capable to raise costs that tin create specified tangible impact.”

The process of creating nan set tacos, Valdez explained, is different for each personification depending connected their schedule.

“We commencement disconnected by uncovering retired what is it that you bid erstwhile you travel to HomeState,” she told us, noting that they’ve ne'er done a collab pinch personification who doesn’t eat astatine nan restaurant. “That’s a large criteria for nan programme astatine ample is they person to beryllium guest.”

“Leon Bridges came successful and tried nan taco beforehand, and he conscionable for illustration took 1 wound and was like, ‘Yes.’ And past we had different artists that travel successful and they’re like, ‘Well, I don’t emotion that. Can we effort this? Can we effort that?’ And they get a batch much progressive successful nan imaginative process and some are awesome.”

Though nan set collaborations — which are truthful celebrated bands person really sent successful videos and campaigns requesting 1 — travel to an end, immoderate of them are truthful popular, for illustration Armisen’s Emo’s and Leon Bridges’ Fort Worth tacos, they stay mainstays connected nan menu.

“We don’t determine nan guests do, you guys do,” Valdez said of which personage creations they support around. “Some magic that happens each now and past wherever it fills a request that we don’t have, for illustration a mushroom taco.”

Seemingly hinting astatine Williams’ Parachute taco — which is group to time off nan paper connected May 17 and features mushrooms, achromatic beans, lettuce, Monterey Jack food and crunchy tortilla strips, topped pinch tomatillo ranch — Valdez teased location are “already rumblings of it perchance sticking around.”

HomeState, which brings successful A-list regular customers including Elijah Wood and Mia Goth, person opened 8 locations crossed Los Angeles, pinch 2 much connected nan way.

“We person nan champion community,” Valdez said. “It’s for illustration dissimilar thing I’ve ever seen. We person specified loyal guests and specified kind, passionate people. … I’m truthful grateful for that.”