One Santa Ana company. Two brands.
Culinary Curators LLC is a Santa Ana food company, founded in 2024 by the team that started Tacos El Gringo in 2017. It owns and runs two brands — Culinary Curators (meal prep, custom catering and our shop) and Tacos El Gringo — each with its own menu and its own way to order, and it runs the kitchens at two Orange County venues.
Each one does a different job. Here’s who it’s for and where to buy.
Ten chef-cooked meals a week, every one over 50 g of protein and under 600 calories, macros on the lid.
Upscale catering with a menu written for the event — Italian, Mexican, American or a mix — plated, family-style or buffet.
Red-oak grilled breakfast burritos and tacos in downtown Santa Ana, plus taco bar and tray catering. Its own menu, its own site, its own catering.
The chef backpack with a built-in 10-slot knife roll, and the spreadsheets and guides we use to price plates, quote catering and run a food business.
The question we get most. Here’s the difference.
Beyond our own brands, we operate the kitchens inside two Orange County venues.
Ryan was born and raised in Santa Ana, and he cooks for the same community he grew up in. Two things drive everything here: a passion for food and a commitment to serving his neighbors.
He started Tacos El Gringo in 2017 as a pop-up at local breweries. In 2024 he founded Culinary Curators to hold everything that grew from it: weekly high-protein meal prep, custom event catering, the kitchens at Garden AMP and The Third Sports Lounge, and a shop of gear and business kits made from the tools he uses every day.
Every calculator in the shop started as a sheet used to price a plate or quote a job. The backpack started as a problem on the line. The meal prep started because the numbers on the box should match the food in it.
Custom catering for your event, or ten high-protein meals for your week.