At 2 p.m., the lunch rush begins at El Trapiche, a restaurant along Mexico City’s chaotic Avenida Revolución. Two women arrive from a nearby office and ask for the set lunch menu, comida corrida, that El Trapiche serves for 60 pesos (or around $3.30).
“Today we have baleadas,” says Lilian Mendoza Rivera, El Trapiche’s owner and manager.
“Is that like a sope?” one of the women asks, referring to a corn-based Mexican dish, also topped with beans.
“No, they’re better,” says Lilian, “Try it.”
I wrote about El Trapiche, Mexico City’s only Honduran restaurant, and how its founder Lilian Mendoza has created a home away from home for Central Americans in Mexico.
The full article is on Culinary Backstreets, where you will also find stellar recommendations for Mexico City eats.
Makes me hungry forMexico.