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| - This is not a restaurant, it is a latino grocery store. But what a store. They have a mavelous range of salsas, tortillas, beans, rice and everything else a latin kitchen needs. They also sell hot food, you order at the checkout, hand the ticket ot the lady cooking and then hope one of the stools against the high shelf or bench at the front of the shop stays vacant for when you food is ready.
This is very good food, not strictly Mexican, but very South of the Border, a little Salvadoran, a little Mexican, a little special. I started off with a Salvadoran style chicken tamal, basically chicken and pressed potato cooked in a broad leaf and a couple of flautitas, which for you gingos are flutes of fried corn tortilla filled with yumminess. They were very good, so good that I felt compelled to eat a pair of beef tostadas and two soft pork tacos. The food here is superb, not superb in a grand restaurant way, but superb in a seriously authentic Latin American way. Emporium Latino is now my second favourite Mexican (and El Salvadoran) restaurant in this fine city, Tacos El Asador, still hitting the number one spot.
I am also massively happy with the way that Kensington Market is turning into a little Mexico. Every time I'm here there seems to be another Latin American place open, which can only be a very good thing.
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