When fire shut down El Pueblo Market on Broadway in Eureka, it left a sweet roll-sized hole in our hearts and stomachs. While we wait for the market and its wall of baked goods to reopen — soon, we hear, though there’s no firm date — we’re feeding our pan dulce cravings at its Redwood […]
Mexican cuisine
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Hum Plate Round-up
Sea Change The stretch of Eureka’s Fourth Street between T and R streets is broad-daylight sketchy. And yet two restaurants have built cult followings there: Tandoori Bites, with its lunch buffet of curries, and La Patria Mariscos and Grill (1718 Fourth St.), just a samosa’s throw across the street. A couple of years ago, Adrian and […]
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Sea Change
The stretch of Eureka’s Fourth Street between T and R streets is broad-daylight sketchy. And yet two restaurants have built cult followings there: Tandoori Bites, with its lunch buffet of curries, and La Patria Mariscos and Grill (1718 Fourth St.), just a samosa’s throw across the street. A couple of years ago, Adrian and Cici Ayala […]
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Mole Feelings
There are those who roll their eyes at the mention of another Mexican restaurant opening in Humboldt. And fine, I just did a quick count of around 60. Whatever. The cuisine of Mexico contains multitudes and we have merely scraped its surface here. The vibe at Tuyas (553 Main St., Ferndale) is modern and a […]
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Hum Plate Round-up
Hotsy totsy School cafeteria lunches don’t have their bad reputation for nothing. Those of a certain age remember when ketchup was declared a vegetable and meatless Fridays meant frozen fish sticks or pale, Styrofoam-y squares of pizza. Still, did you secretly revel in those fish sticks and their accompanying tartar sauce packets? Was there shameful […]
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Don’t Drive Hangry
You wouldn’t think a slick, black truck edged with flames and emblazoned with a majestic rooster in profile would be hard to find. And yet, there I was, circling the Broadway Cinema parking lot, cursing the person who’d recommended the Tacos El Gallo truck (a film reviewer who shall remain nameless and who, it turns […]