"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:29:11 -0700, Marcella Peek
> > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> sf > wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:40:17 -0600, casa contenta > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 8/28/2013 12:37 AM, sf wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > No restaurant makes their own tortillas around here. Chevy's had a
>> > > > mechanical tortilla maker and I don't care what anyone says about
>> > > > Chevy's - they made great tortillas.
>> > >
>> > > Darn it, you're being culturally deprived up that way, who knew? I've
>> > > found great Mexican in San Diego
>> >
>> > Honestly, I can't stand the Mexican food in San Diego. I prefer
>> > Northern California Mexican style. Labor is too expensive for a
>> > restaurant to employ anyone just to make tortillas to go in a tortilla
>> > warmer on the table. I can see them using one of these though.
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaK6xCCJH9c
>>
>> Picante in Berkeley has a lady standing there making corn tortillas.
>>
>> I hear there's another place in Oakland with a tortilla lady, but I've
>> only been told and haven't been there.
>>
> Nice to know they're somewhere. The only place I ever knew that did
> it on the premises (besides the factory where a group of ladies formed
> the hand made type), was a long gone restaurant on outer Geary, called
> El Sombrero - weekends only.

We used to have a place that made them on the weekends but they went out of
business. We tried them twice and didn't like the food either time. Or the
service. It was most likely the service that did them in. Then another
lady bought the building and tried to copy a successful place up the street
a few miles from her that is owned by the friends of the owner of the place
we often dine at. I had mentioned the place to him and he told me this
story. That new place was only open maybe a few months and now it sits
empty. We seem to be getting more and more Mexican places around here
although many are taco trucks or holes in the wall. Too many good places
for the crappy ones to make it.