When Mario Mendez decided to open a restaurant 19 years ago, he wanted it to be a place where families could come for a good home-cooked meal at a reasonable price. Today, that same philosophy ...

Taco trucks are the street drugs of the taquería world. More edgy, mostly sold on the corner at night, addictive as hell. At Mario’s, they take the taco truck high and cut it with the more ...

PICO RIVERA >> Even while Mario Jimenez, co-owner of Mario’s Tacos with his wife, Celia, was lying in a hospital bed in the final stages of his fight against cancer, he was thinking of others. He ...

PICO RIVERA – For the 28th year in a row, Mario and Celia Jimenez spent their Thanksgiving serving hundreds a full-blown meal. As owners of Mario’s Tacos, 9247 E. Whittier Blvd., the couple, their ...

I started off Day 2 wondering if any al pastor in Chicago measured up to the version served at Taqueria Los Barrilitos. Now I have my answer. Actually, I have two answers. Both Mario’s Tacos and Xoco ...

For more than 30 years, Celia Jimenez and her late husband would welcome everyone who walked through the doors of Mario’s Tacos in Pico Rivera on Thanksgiving Day. “We didn’t ask questions, we just ...

PICO RIVERA – For 24 years Mario’s Tacos, 9247 E. Whittier Blvd., has served free turkey dinners on Thanksgiving to the community. It’s a way for owners Mario and Celia Jimenez to give back to the ...