One of the Bay Area’s best Mexican restaurants began in a home. After 5 years, it’s moving out

After years of offering hard-to-find homestyle dishes from Mexico’s Jalisco state, one of the East Bay’s most prominent home restaurants is making the move to a full restaurant space.

Cenaduria Elvira will soon serve its tortas ahogadas — recently declared by colleague Cesar Hernandez as the best in the Bay Area — and airy tostadas raspadas inside the historic Western Pacific Depot building at 468 Third St. in the Jack London Square area, chef-owner Elvira Varela told the Chronicle. If the final bits of permitting go through without a hitch, diners can look forward to stopping by the new location as early as the first week of December, she said.

East Bay Nosh first reported on the future opening…

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