At La Plaza

​Machacada con huevo, the Northern Mexican dish of dried beef with scrambled eggs, makes a lovely Saturday morning breakfast. I ate a wonderful version last Saturday at of La Plaza restaurant on Bingle at Long Point. The interior of this place looks like an all-American diner.

I was confused when I first looked at the menu because, although La Plaza appears to be a Mexican restaurant, all the breakfasts were standard American fare like bacon and eggs and pancakes. When I asked the waitress about it, she looked at me like I was dolt, and turned the menu over. The Mexican breakfasts were on the other side.

​My original breakfast destination was Pancho's carniceria just down the block on Long Point. The signs out front advertised breakfast tacos and cheap tacos. I parked the car, walked in, took a look at the rock-hard scrambled eggs, the crusted-over barbacoa, and the nasty-looking steam table bins and walked out. I am not exactly picky when it comes to taquerias, but there is a limit.

La Plaza has a sign on the wall that says "Since 1964." I don't know how I have overlooked this gem until now.