Customers – including chefs from other restaurants – line up to buy the freshly made corn and flour tortillas, but also crowd the tiny space for items such as tacos and gorditas filled with homestyle guisados like pork with nopalitos in an earthy guajillo sauce. Speaking of sauce – make sure to take home one of their excellent salsas. – Claudia Alarcón

This article appears in February 14 • 2014.

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