Chef and owner Johnny Hernandez addresses me through the steam rising from arrachera en salsa de tomatillo, a central Mexican speciality cooked and served in a molcajete - a mortar hewn from volcanic basalt whose design dates back to Mesoamerican times.
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molcajete:
Borrowing from Spanish molcajete, from Classical Nahuatl mōlcaxitl.