The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
Diana Kennedy
Armando Garcia Castro has been preparing flambéed pepper steak tableside in Ajijic restaurants for nearly 40 years.
The three authors of La Tacopedia, an encyclopedia which offers a the history, culture and recipes of that most universal Mexican comfort food, presented their book during the 2014 Worlds Fair of Cookbooks in Beijing, China Wednesday. Deborah Holtz, Juan Carlos Mena and Alejandro Escalante were awarded a Gourmand prize for gastronomic literature at the event.
Measuring by chronological age, Tony Bishop of Ajijic’s Hacienda del Lago Boutique Hotel and Restaurant may be one of lakeside’s youngest expats.
