Two Maryland restaurants received national attention this week after being highlighted by Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag in his “favorite dishes of February.”
Among the selections were Hijos del Maiz, a Mexican street food truck located at 12151 Rockville Pike in Rockville, and Mandalay Restaurant at 930 Bonifant St. in Silver Spring.
Hijos del Maiz operates out of a gas station parking lot along Rockville Pike, where the husband and wife team behind the concept focuses on traditional Mexican street food prepared with house-made masa. Sontag praised both the food and the unexpected setting. “There is novelty and thrill to eating such thoughtfully made food in a gas station parking lot,” Sontag wrote…