Café de Tacuba
The Café de Tacuba is one of the most famous and most traditional restaurants of Mexico City . It offers high quality Mexican cuisine in rooms that are adorned with imposing murals, paintings and azulejos .
location
Café de Tacuba is located in an old 17th century building at number 28 on calle Tacuba in the historic center of Mexico City. It is in the immediate vicinity of the Allende metro station , which is served by line 2, and is about halfway between the Zócalo in the east and the Alameda Central in the west , which are only a few hundred meters away.
history
In 1912, Dionisio Mollinero came to Mexico City from Tabasco to open a restaurant that would offer high quality authentic and traditional Mexican dishes. He found what he was looking for in the historic calle Tacuba - the first street in Mexico City - and named the restaurant he opened after the street on which it is located. A dairy had previously been in the building.
The many personalities who have come here include the long-time Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the composer Agustín Lara as well as the American author Oscar Lewis . Lewis was inspired by a collaborator at Café de Tacuba to create a character that he incorporated into his novel The Children of Sanchez , published in 1961 . After Lewis' death in 1970, the novel was filmed in 1978 under the direction of Hall Bartlett with some of the greatest stars in Mexican film history . The main roles in the film, of which some sequences were filmed at the Café de Tacuba, playing Anthony Quinn , Dolores del Río and Katy Jurado .
On June 25, 1936, the then governor of the state of Veracruz , Manlio Fabio Altamirano Flores, was shot and killed by a killer while he was eating with his wife.
Web links and sources
- Datos que seguro no conocías del mítico café de Tacuba (Spanish; article from March 2017)
- En voz del Café de Tacuba (Spanish; accessed March 27, 2019)
- La calle Tacuba, la primera calle de la capital (Spanish)
Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 99 ° 8 ′ 15.4 ″ W.