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El Cholulas Mexican Grill

El Cholulas Mexican Grill

Breakfast from six. Drive-thru. The same corner it has always been.

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The board

Two plates
every day

Monday to Friday, eleven in the morning until close, with tea. The board is painted on the same wall it always has been — this page only reads it, and knows what day it is.

The menu

Sixty-odd plates

Breakfast all day from six, seafood, grills to share and meat by the pound. Everything arrives in clay.

A clay plate of carnitas tacos, chunks of pork, onion, a wedge of lime and a bowl of consommé with its spoon, on a dark wooden table.

Carnitas in clay, with its consommé. The plate is theirs, photographed in the dining room; the table and the light are retouched.

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The plates

One hundred and four
photographs of their kitchen

Plates the kitchen serves. The table and the light are retouched; what is on the plate is theirs. Dish names are confirmed by the restaurant.

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The room

Someone painted
these chairs

Hand-painted chair backs at the bar: the agave field, the jimador, and the piñas in the brick oven
An embossed tin sun on the dining-room wall

The chair backs at the bar tell the whole story of tequila in three pictures: the agave field, the jimador in white with his red sash, and the piñas stacked in the brick oven. Nobody ordered these out of a catalogue.

Above the dining room hangs a tin sun with a face. This site’s status dot comes from it, and it is why the section marks are arcs and not boxes. Every shape here came from something inside that building.

Extraction, not decoration

The corner

10124 Broadway

Between Bitters and Loop 410, on the oak-tree side. Its own parking lot and a drive-thru window.