Taco Time: Guisados @ La Güera de los Estudios Churubusco
This taquería, literally a hole-in-the-wall of the capital’s Estudios Churubusco, is a legend within a legend. The location, Estudios Churubusco, is Mexico’s premier movie studio, the ”MGM” of our country, where great films have been produced since the Golden Era of Mexican Cinema, i.e. the 1940’s - 1960’s.
The original “güera”, Doña Natividad Soriano, grandmother of the current proprietor, Maria Guadalupe Palacios, started selling tacos out of a basket to movie stars and lesser mortals who worked within these hallowed walls – John Wayne and Pedro Infante amongst them—in 1942.
15 exquisite guisados, several vegetarian— are on offer. Bistec en a dusky chile pasilla sauce and longaniza sautéed in a salsa of fiery chile de arból are knockouts.
La Güera de los Estudios Churubusco
Calle Atletas 2, Country Club Churubusco (Coyoacán)
Open 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Monday – Friday, until 3 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday