Set us as preferredSky’s Gourmet Tacos, the popular Mid-City taco shop that opened in 1992 with a soul food-inflected take on Mexican cuisine, will close permanently on Aug. 15. The exterior sign at Sky’s Gourmet Tacos. (Nava Rawls / Los Angeles Times)Once a hub for Black-owned restaurants, the stretch of Pico Boulevard that Sky’s Gourmet Tacos occupies has changed dramatically in recent years. She opened Sky’s Gourmet Tacos on Pico Boulevard that year, making tacos on a 24-inch Wolf stovetop. Shrimp tacos from Sky’s Gourmet Tacos.