Mike Barrows, our general manager, recently got back from a trip to the Tequila region of Mexico. It was there that he learned something I’ve always found to be true: Everything tastes better when you learn to love the people that make it.
Mike came to us initially as our bar…
Let’s face the facts: A Mexican restaurant without a good margarita is like a day without sunshine. So when Patricia Unterman, the city’s very respected Examiner restaurant critic, came into Tacolicious and ended what was otherwise a very positive review with this …
“Your biggest investment will be in booze, and…
Friday morning, we opened our doors for the first World Cup game which started at 7 am. It was amazing to see the restaurant packed to standing room only, windows wide open, people even sitting outside and peering in.
Telmo was working his butt off, serving up the scrambled egg and…
For our last day in Guadalajara, Eric Rubin came down from San Francisco to show us the ropes. Eric, the man behind Tres Agaves tequila, is down in Mexico five or six times a year checking in on his agave. He might be from Tennessee, but he knows his stuff.
For…
We headed out to Tequila on Saturday. Hiring a driver for the day cost us about $80 (with tip)—not bad for a roundtrip drive of three hours, plus a very kind man named Nicasio who drove us out to Herradura, waited patiently for us while we had a tour of…