Second Helpings
Fri., Aug. 18, 2000
El Azteca
2600 E. Seventh, 477-4701
Mon-Thu, 11am-9pm; Fri & Sat, 11am-midnight
El Azteca's placemat menu is a Tex-Mex restaurant history lesson in itself. We begin with numbered combination dinners prepared with textbook perfection, but El Azteca was also one of the first Mexican eateries to add a large section "for our vegetarian customers and friends," in the early Seventies. As local restaurant patrons became more sophisticated, the Guerras added a few Interior Mexican dishes to the basic Tex-Mex fare. However, each dinner still includes a small, comforting scoop of sherbet or cinnamon-scented polvorone cookie, the traditional finale to any spicy Tex-Mex meal.
