“Mama’s has been at the corner of Second Avenue and Bell Street

Published 8:00 am Monday, November 26, 2012

“Mama’s has been at the corner of Second Avenue and Bell Street since 1974, and is beloved by many. But sometimes people turn up their noses at Mama’s because of its staunch refusal to behave like a Mexican restaurant of the sort that lock-jawed foodies respectaE”to go all traditional and peasant-simple with the hog-face tacos and huitlacoche and strange moles with 10 generations’ worth of backstory. What the snobs are incapable of realizing, though, is that the food that Mama’s does is traditional and historic in its own right. It’s just a different kind of tradition, coming from a very different history.From Jason Sheehan’s review of Mama’s Mexican Kitchen.Photos by Peter Mumford.Published on August 5, 2010