El Huarache Azteca is a slice of Mexico City. It’s enlightening to know what a city of more than twenty-five million souls considers everyday food. El Huarache delivers in this regard by offering ...

Really good Mexican food can turn up in unpretentious places like El Huarache Azteca 1, one of the string of small Mexican restaurants and taco trucks along York Boulevard in Highland Park. Its main ...

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When in Highland Park, do as the locals do… Jonathan Gold visits El Huarache Azteca #1. This friendly, neighborhood Mexican restaurant is known for its huaraches – a massive slab of fried masa, piled ...

At a window table looking out onto Oakland’s bustling International Boulevard, two patrons sit drinking bright green cocktails. The drink? El Huarache Azteca’s top seller — the cactus and pineapple ...

Jonathan Gold visits El Huarache Azteca #1. This friendly, neighborhood Mexican restaurant is known for its huaraches – a massive slab of fried masa, piled high with beans and thin pieces of grilled ...

Hats off once again to Barry Popick’s food history Web site. It was while reading the “huarache” etymology on Popick’s blog that I discovered that the restaurant I was reviewing this week, Stafford’s ...

In a time when cold-press juiceries are relentlessly on trend, and often relentlessly expensive, Jugos Azteca in Highland Park is keeping juices old-school. For the last 21 years, the tiny juice shop ...

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