Restaurant
El Fogón
Open-air, smoky taqueria famed for tacos al pastor carved from a spinning spit late into the night.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to El Fogón in Playa del Carmen starts at the spinning spit behind the counter and asks a question Mexicans still argue over: who actually invented the taco al pastor. It travels back to a widow's shawarma stand in Mexico City in nineteen sixty-six, and further to the Lebanese immigrants who settled in Puebla. Best heard with a view of the trompo while the taquero is carving.
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