“People have been making and eating tamales for more than 7,000 years. They are the original comfort food.”

–Richard Lambert

Fun to Eat

Since our opening in 2012, we have attracted a loyal and growing group of Santa Barbara area customers, mostly by word of mouth. Every tamale we make is seventy percent filling, so they are always plump and moist. We use just enough masa to hold all that filling inside and make them fun to eat.

Mexico’s Tamale Queen

Our tamales combine family recipes along with traditional techniques I learned from Beatriz Ramirez, Mexico’s celebrated “Tamale Queen.” I traveled to her tamaleria in Mexico City where she taught me her ways of creating authentic tamales. I have blended her methods with my own to develop our distinctive looking and colorful tamales.