{"id":5474,"date":"2011-09-18T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2011-09-18T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T03:00:12","slug":"should-mexican-restaurants-always-be-decorated-like-19th-century-ranch-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/09\/18\/should-mexican-restaurants-always-be-decorated-like-19th-century-ranch-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"should Mexican restaurants always be decorated like 19th century ranch homes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Near our home is a newish Mexican restaurant that bills itself as a “modern Mexican delicatessen.” <\/p>\n

Like many Mexican restaurants, it is decorated as if it were a 19th century Mexican ranch home. It has dark wood beams, stone and brick walls (they’re painted-on, like trompe l’oeil) and the shelves are lined with knickknacks resembling pre-Columbian icons and statues. <\/p>\n

When you order chips and salsa at this modern Mexican deli, the chips come in a plastic basket woven to resemble wicker and the salsa in a plastic cup styled like a black rock molcajete<\/a>. In sum, the interior is designed to create a feeling of a pre-modern life even if the ingredients are not.<\/p>\n

Would a restaurant that bills itself as a “modern American delicatessen” be decorated with a wagon wheel and bales of hay?<\/p>\n

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modern American deli<\/strike> Cracker Barrel<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Would a bright, airy decor, light materials and\/or photos of contemporary Mexicans and their homes make the food taste less authentically Mexican? <\/p>\n

When is Mexico?<\/p>\n

is it then?
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or now?
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