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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a part of our outdoor dining guide for the Chicago suburbs and Northwest Indiana, where we fill you in on where to dine alfresco. So leave the picnic basket at home and check back here to see ...

Sliced pork hisses on the flat top. Mario Moya emerges from the kitchen in his own restaurant’s uniform: a firetruck-red cap, the letter “M” surrounded by a white circle on the crown and a ...