Maria Medina Chaurand hears it often inside her restaurant.
Customers will sip spoonfuls of menudo, or scarf down steaming fajitas, and proclaim: “This reminds me of the food my mother used to make.”
The cumulative weight of those statements make closing the La Fonda El Taquito all the more difficult — it’s a nostalgic space for some, and a decades-long routine for many others…