Posted on 05/17/2024 4:48:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Note to self: Go to Mexico City immediately.
Need one more reason to book a trip to Mexico City? Easy. You need to go taste the food at El Califa de León, the very first Mexican taco stand to earn a Michelin star.
In May, a Michelin representative presented chef Arturo Rivera Martínez with the award, including the coveted white chef's jacket, which the Associated Press noted he didn't even bother putting on. He was just too busy searing his daily meats.
The taco stand, located in the San Rafael neighborhood, only serves four tacos, but those four tacos, Michelin explained, are done to absolute perfection.
"The Gaonera taco is exceptional. Thinly sliced beef filet is expertly cooked to order, seasoned with only salt and a squeeze of lime," the guide wrote in its new entry. "At the same time, a second cook prepares the excellent corn tortillas alongside. The resulting combination is elemental and pure. Other options are few but excellent, and include bistec (beef steak), chuleta (pork chop), and costilla (beef rib). With meat and tortillas of this caliber, the duo of house-made salsas is hardly even necessary."
This Chef's Restaurants Have Collected 21 Michelin Stars, More Than Any Other Chef on Earth And really, at least according to Rivera Martínez, that's the magic in his meals: Simplicity.
"The secret is the simplicity of our taco. It has only a tortilla, red or green sauce, and that's it. That, and the quality of the meat," Rivera Martínez told the AP, adding that "Coke" is the perfect pairing to his Michelin meals.
There are a few things you need to know if you plan to visit and order a taco. First, it's a tiny place where only about 10 people can fit inside at once, so you may have to wait outside, which people seem to happily do as they chow down on their orders. Next is it's firmly cash only. But that's also OK because the prices are all relatively affordable. According to El Sol de Mexico, the steak taco is 53 pesos (about $3.17), the rib is 82 pesos (about $4.90), the Gaonera runs at 70 pesos (about $4.19, and the Chop is another 82 pesos (again, just under $5). That Coke to wash it down with will cost you a little extra.
I just go for the coke. They really know how to process the gluten free free trade sustainable coca leaves.
I think they still make totally excellent tires.
Not a simple thing to do.
Michelin put out a travel guide to promote their tires when
ordinary folks started buying cars in the 20’s and 30’s. It was a promotion that gave a reason to travel by car, when that was new and no-one really had done it before. “Go to such and such town, try out so and so’s roast beef.” It started the “road trip” phenom and evolved from there to what we see today.
Do they have a tequila agave option?
Why do I think Michelin is about as honest as our elections.
Tortillas made from lye-bleached corn meal, salt, lime, and four choices of feral cat. Yum!
Down it with a cup of tap water. You’ll get to see that meal again. No charge.
Why is “Coke” in quotes? Does that word have more than one meaning?
Interesting. I had no idea.
I am a polymath not a specialist, but I appreciate them and their ability to excel and do what boils down to K.I.S.S.
I just drooled on myself.
I’ll bet they’re pretty good.
But not worthy of my bucket list.
How about a good Mexican beer...for those of us who can’t/won’t ever drink tequila again.
First, it's a tiny place where only about 10 people can fit inside at once, so you may have to wait outside, which people seem to happily do as they chow down on their orders.
Wow.
After they sell all four tacos, do the other six people just hang around until the next day when they have four more tacos ready?
These are indeed truly dedicated customers!
DIE expands…
How do?
Michelin’s motivation to begin the rating system was people weren’t driving enough so they didn’t need to buy new tires. Michelin started to review restaurants in the countryside to get people to drive more in order to try the restaurants and wear out the tires.
Egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam.
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