GUYANESE here will now be able to indulge in another ethnic cuisine with the opening yesterday of Mexican Taco at the Giftland OfficeMax Mega Mall, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, through the financial backing of Mexican and Guyanese investors.Located on the second floor, the food outlet provides a wide range of Mexican cuisine, and of course the popular taco. Taco is a traditional Mexican dish composed of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling.

Insidro Espinosa, Rajkumar Singh, Prakash Singh, Juan Espinosa and Pedro Espinosa are the four investors who have established the $5.5M food outlet.

According to Espinosa, the establishment of Mexican Taco in Greater Georgetown is the first of its kind in the Caribbean, and there are two other franchises in Mexico that would have made a name for themselves in the restaurant industry.

“With my little experience here in Guyana, we decided to establish a Mexican fast food restaurant here. This is the first one in the Caribbean for us,” he told the Guyana Chronicle, minutes before the restaurant was commissioned.

He said the restaurant will bring a combination of Mexican flavours to the Guyanese populace. “We tend to mix when we are eating, so if you put together all of the elements, you will truly experience the Mexican taste,” he added. Mexican Taco will be opened every day from 11:00h to 23:00h with eight staffers operating on a shift system.

Mexican food plays a critical role in the culture, social structure and popular traditions of Mexico. The most important example of this connection is the use of mole (the generic name for a number of sauces originally used in Mexican cuisine, as well as for dishes based on these sauces) for special occasions and holidays, particularly in the south and central regions of the country. For this reason, Mexican cuisine was inscribed in 2010 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

By Svetlana Marshall