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Voted Best Breakfast, Best Mexican & Best Waitstaff: MartAnne's Burrito Palace celebrates its journey

When you have been serving breakfast since 2001, you can forget you are also a Mexican restaurant, confessed Tina Martinez, owner of MartAnne’s Burrito Palace. After winning Best Breakfast multiple times, though the humble and happy crew doesn’t tack up their successes on the wall, they claimed the top Mexican spot. “We’re honored. It wasn’t on our radar. It took us 10 years to change our customers� perspectives to consider us a Mexican restaurant,� she said. So, it feels pretty good.

MartAnne’s, “The House that Chilaquiles Built,� was founded on chips, sauce and eggs—Mexican comfort food leftovers served as breakfast. The institution on Route 66 in downtown flaunts fiesta fun in raspberry, ochre and cotton candy blue walls with whimsical palace décor in a riot of feathers, flowers and Emma Gardner’s skeleton art. Still, behind every institution, there is a history, and Tina reminisced.





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