| More than six decades of outstanding Mexican food have made today's Maz Mezcal the gourmet choice in New York. Your host, Eduardo Silva, has vivid memories of his grandmother's little El Triangulito, famous for | ||||||||||||||||
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Botany Bay and later on Sharon's became El Sombrero, opened in 1973 until1989 at 239 East 86th St | |||||||||||||||
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El Sombrero restaurant
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| excellence in the Mazatlan of the late 1930's. Immigrating in 1948, Sr. Pedro Silva began a great upper-east-side tradition with La Paloma, this restaurant offered the wonderful, traditional Mexican food to its distinguished clientele and some years later expanded the tradition with the inauguration of El Mirador, on 50th St at First Avenue, and yet | ||||||||||||||||
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| Don Pedro Silva and former NYC Mayor Abe Beame | ||||||||||||||||
| another restaurant, a little there after, bearing the very Mexican name El Azteca, and El Sombrero, in 1972, only a block away from today's location, 86th Street between First and Second Avenues. | ||||||||||||||||
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The interior of Dorie, to become El Sombrero II
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| This restaurant stayed in business for the following sixteen years. As its owner retired, Mr. Eduardo Silva rekindled the old family tradition of serving the best Mexican food on the upper east side of Manhattan, renaming the restaurant later on Maz Mezcal, that name soon became an icon of gastronomic excellence. | ||||||||||||||||
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Don Pedro and boxing promoter Don King
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| In 2001 Maz Mezcal was expanded, an a new bar was built in order to serve its customers with elegance and comfort. Sr. Silva will welcome you with their traditional warm hospitality in the best Mexican style. | ||||||||||||||||
| Come and enjoy! | ||||||||||||||||