Dolores Taqueria

11.30.07

A California-style Taqueria in Germany.

It is hard for me to believe that we left San Francisco, travelled half way around the world and 2 blocks from our new apartment is a restaurant themed after our old neighborhood. Dolores was 2 blocks from our apartment on Valencia St. and if you do not remember where that is there is a map of the Mission District blown-up to the scale of wallpaper covering the walls of the entire restaurant. The map does not show our previous apartment on it, reminding me of the micro-provincialism even within the city of San Francisco itself. We were the 'North Mission'. However as we sat and ate our burrito and quesadilla, we could locate the apartment of our friends JC, S MF, the other JC and plenty of our favorite bars and restaurants.



This restaurant is kind of a placebo, yes I was eating a steak burrito and S had a cheese quesadilla but it did not taste like any of the food found near Delores street. Also, you cannot fake pico de gallo from the Mission, they forgot the roaming Mariachi bands, and you cannot have a Mexican restaurant without refried beans. But it will do for now.