But Bell didn't create the hard-shelled taco: He was taught by the owners of a popular Mexican restaurant named Mitla Cafe. You'd never know it from looking, but an unassuming little restaurant in ...

Mike Montaño is the co-owner of Mitla Café, opened by his grandmother, Doña Lucia Rodriguez, in 1937. "I remember it almost as an extension of my grandmother's kitchen, or my grandmother's ...

In 1674, a priest named Francisco de Burgoa published his account of visiting the ruins of the Zapotec city of Mitla in what is now Oaxaca in southern Mexico. He described a vast underground ...

Despite Taco Bell's international fame, Mitla Cafe has a place in the history of Mexican American cuisine as the first eatery to serve hard-shell tacos in the United States. While there are 7,400 ...

On the west side of the city, where the Mexican families were allowed to live, that meeting point became Mitla Cafe on Mount Vernon Avenue. 1937 is the year that Lucia Rodriguez first threw open ...

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The Church of San Pablo now stands above the underground passageways in the ancient city of Mitla. Marco M. Vigato, ARX Project According to local legend, the ancient Zapotecs built an intricate ...

They sent out the hard-shell tacos on Thursday at Mitla Café the same way they have for 85 years — freshly fried, with a blizzard of cheddar cheese on top and a side of history. The diner off ...

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