Why: The restaurant serves flavorful, homey fare that tastes like it was made by a Mexican grandmother (even if it wasn’t).

By the beginning of the 19 th Century, Mexican recipe and literary books ... at the time also known as “miners' tacos.” Those were the first street tacos, which became popular among the ...

Perico translates directly as a parakeet or parrot, which is why the restaurant’s logo is a parrot. The cartoon-like logo ...