5 best things our food writers ate in the Twin Cities this week Food writers Sharyn Jackson and Rick Nelson highlight the favorites of their weekly dining experiences. December 11, 2020 11:38am Text size Copy shortlink:
Since opening Nico s Taco & Tequila Bar in Minneapolis about seven years ago, Alejandro Victoria has had a dream. His food always emphasized the Indigenous ingredients and flavors of his Michoacan culture, but the tortillas he used, while made by small businesses in Minneapolis, were not the ones he remembered so fondly from his childhood in Mexico, where his father was a corn farmer. When I would sit at grandma s clay oven, she would give me breakfast of just a tortilla with rock salt, and when she rolled it the salt would melt right into the tortilla, he recalled. The No. 1 thing I want to do when I go back to Mexico is have a tortilla with salt. (No. 2 is tequila, he added.)