California Tacos and More on California Street in Omaha has been serving authentic Mexican street-style tacos to the city’s south side since the 1970s, built around the kind of family recipe tacos that most of Omaha had never encountered at a neighborhood counter. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, […]
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Mexican, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 5Cecilia Baca opened Cecilia’s Cafe in 1999 on the corner of 6th Street and Silver Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, naming it after herself and building the menu around the New Mexican food she learned from her grandmother’s kitchen. She is one of twelve siblings and traces her cooking directly to her family’s traditions, including a
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Albuquerque, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Ralph Pesqueira Sr. started El Indio in 1940 as a tortilla factory at the corner of India and Grape Streets in San Diego. He made them by hand. Fresh corn tortillas, supplied to local restaurants. He also coined the word “taquito” for his rolled tacos, which is a detail that belongs in the record books.
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Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 2Los Tapatios started as a lunch truck on the side of the road in San Jose and upgraded to a full restaurant before Guy Fieri came looking. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “One of a Kind,” aired November 19, 2007 — as a place serving homemade authentic
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Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 2Maria Corbalan started Taco Xpress in 1997 with her income tax refund, a little trailer, $500 cash, some dishes from her house, and a friend who painted the trailer real cute. For the first three months sales ran about $17 a day. Then a review in the Austin American-Statesman ran, and as Maria describes it:
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Austin, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 3, TexasIn November 1990, Frank and Eve Collins opened a 1,000-square-foot restaurant in north Phoenix with seating for 16 and a menu that blended Chinese cooking, Mexican cooking, and Jamaican cooking into something that had no name and no precedent. Eve’s Chinese heritage and their shared Arizona roots were the starting point. The result was Chino
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