The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
When our Mexican friend Eliana invited us for lunch at the restaurant she and her sister have opened in their home in Mazamilta, we couldn´t imagine what epicurean delights we would be enjoying.
A special culinary treat customarily served on January 6 is the rosca de reyes – a sweet bread shaped in round or oblong form and decorated with jewel-like candied fruits to resemble a crown. Bakers slip tiny plastic figures shaped like infants into the dough before popping the bread in the oven.
Ask any two Tapatios where to find the best fish tacos in Guadalajara and a long discussion is sure to ensue, with each extolling the virtues of his or her particular neighborhood haunt.
Where you hear a 10-piece mariachi band ringing out nightly, you hardly expect to find an apothecary. Yet at the Guadalajara restaurant Los Remedios, located on La Paz three blocks west of Chapultepec, they playfully claim to have found solutions — remedios — to life’s most pressing problems.
Israel Lopez had been planning to open a lakeside eatery for years, even though he wasn’t in the restaurant business. First he found the spot, then purchased the land and financed the building — a huge 120-seat restaurant with a big bar and a good size kitchen.
Restaurant Number Four, Ajijic’s fine-dining and entertainment venue, will close its doors for good on September 2.
An absorbing episode of BBC Radio Four’s “Food Programme” featuring British-born Mexican food guru Diana Kennedy, which aired on June 29, is available as a podcast.
