Mexican comfort food shines at La Hacienda
COMMENTARY her parents as a child, “tacos, burritos, quesadillas with steak, chicken and pork.” They papered the apartment-heavy area with flyers at the outset — and of course, shoppers found them, too — and soon, weekends began to see long waits for limited seats.
“We began to add tables,” she says. “Five at first, then more, and eventually it wasn’t a buffet anymore. It turned into a taco stand, a little restaurant counter inside the market, and we expanded the menu.”
Meanwhile, the cavernous space next door — where Garcia says a brewery had made a brief go at business — sat empty. Their landlord suggested they move in.
“We’d think of the expense. We were busy on the weekends but wondered if we could fill it up during the week. We were nervGrowth