{"id":10317,"date":"2019-05-31T20:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2019-05-31T20:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:07:16","slug":"antojitos-and-taqueria-mario-gets-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10317","title":{"rendered":"Antojitos and Taqueria Mario Gets Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10319\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10319\" class=\"wp-image-10319\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/003-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/003-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/003-2-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/003-2-405x593.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Vargas shows an order of bistek tacos at Taqueria Antojitos Mario. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Going out to eat is getting better in Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n<p>The city has a good number of restaurants whether these be franchise or locally-owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Taqueria y Antojitos Mario belongs to the second group.<\/p>\n<p>The eatery, which has been here since 2005, was recently remodeled thanks to a grant $5,000 grant it received from the Community Development Corp. of Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Hernandez and Sofia Cortez own the business.<\/p>\n<p>He said the money was used to facelift the building and to add additional space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe needed more room to accommodate our clients,\u201d Hernandez said, \u201cespecially for special occasions like during graduation and the annual rodeo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he has many years of experience as a cook working for several restaurants on South Padre Island.<\/p>\n<p>The taqueria, which the Hernandez named after their son Mario, started out of a trailer 14 years ago and relocated to its existing location at 116 E. Ocean Blvd. in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the typical tacos, the eatery has tortas, hamburgers and features seafood each Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness has been going well for us.\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cOne of our best sellers is a thirteen inch flour tortilla stuffed with whatever food item a client wants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Going out to eat is getting better in Los Fresnos. The city has a good number of restaurants whether these be franchise or locally-owned businesses. Taqueria y Antojitos Mario belongs to the second group. The eatery, which has been here since 2005, was recently remodeled thanks to a grant $5,000 grant it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10328,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions\/10328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}