![]() Lopez Patrykus can be found pushing a cart stacked with takeout meals from La Tilma around the neighborhood, giving food to migrants, homeless people, abused women and men waiting for temporary work. Meals here are available to anyone who needs them, no questions asked. But, on Easter Sunday, the restaurant plans to open to the public once more. ![]() The pandemic forced La Tilma to shut down the restaurant entirely and pivot to strictly takeout. A while ago, an undocumented immigrant even delivered food to immigration officers on the Paso del Norte International Bridge that connects El Paso with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Parishioners sipped on menudo, a traditional Mexican soup, after Sunday Mass, and church staff delivered meals to older adults in the neighborhood. If La Tilma didn’t exist, her children would have to drive from a nearby Native American reservation to assist her, she said.īefore the pandemic, La Tilma served a full Mexican menu, including plates with huevos rancheros, burritos and aguas frescas, for under $5 to the public on the weekends. ![]() “If it’s not good, I don’t eat it,” said Dolores Dominguez, 88, who lives in public housing in the neighborhood. Fish or vegetarian specials, like lentil soup, enchiladas and capirotada - a type of Mexican bread pudding served only in the lead up to Easter - appear on Fridays during Lent, when many Christians forgo red meat.
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