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Return to the courtly dining of the Old World

At Ajijic’s Hacienda del Lago you enter a spectacular centuries-old world of Spanish mission and colonial architecture – broad arched entrances, an arcade running the length of one wing while an elegant rectangular dining room complete with fine 19th Century furnishings and elaborately sculpted fireplaces makes up the other wing, both flanking a courtyard-like central garden with its working well from the 1800s. Heavy carved wooden doors, ornamental  moldings, decorative iron work, tower-like chimneys all complete the trip back into Mexico’s past. 


Top Ten Tacos

Back in 2007, national TV network Televisa came up with the idea of declaring March 31 as the Día del Taco Mexicano. The new culinary “holiday” never gained much traction because, after all, every day is a taco day in this country.

Popular city restaurant draws on Lebanese roots

A quiet, vest-pocket park just off Avenida Vallarta near the Minerva glorieta, crowned by a bronze statue that some think is Genghis Khan, is the backdrop for a restaurant, Trivoli, that is thronged by customers attracted to its Mexican menu highlighted by a Mediterranean touch.