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For seven straight hours Barragan served up scores of tacos Gobernador (cheesy shrimp taco), ceviche, and cóctel de camarón (shrimp cocktail) to hundreds of customers, occupying each available spot of outdoor seating in the parking lot at Los Postros restaurant and nightclub.
Those who could find seating scarfed mariscos to the celebratory tunes of a live banda and watched the one-two prance of caballos bailadores (dancing horses).
“I really could not believe my eyes,” Elsa Barragan said. “I had no idea how many people [would come to] support my family and me.”
But to the 20,000 and counting who follow the 37-year-old chef and her Michoacán-meets-Sinaloa dishes on Instagram, this new chapter of Mariscos el Garage is a welcome page on a story 25 years in the making.