The restaurant sources its birotes from Duran’s to make the open-face, bean and cheese-smeared breakfast sandwiches popular throughout Mexico.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
By the end of the debate, about 150 men dressed in Indigenous costumes, their faces smeared with soot, stormed to a nearby wharf and dumped a literal boatload of tea into the water.
Large sections of the ceiling were destroyed, blackened and charred, while the floor and tables below, some still with beer bottles on them, were blanketed in ash and debris.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
13 July 2026
Pictures shared on social media after the fire was extinguished showed chairs and tables inside the pub completely charred and blackened, with parts of the ceiling peeling off.
Sacramento argued in court that most of her items were soiled and therefore garbage.
—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
8 July 2026
The establishment remained closed after a reinspection, during which health inspectors observed unresolved violations including food stored at unsafe temperatures, multiple flies in the kitchen, soiled flooring under cooking equipment among others.
—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 June 2026
But stars aren’t the only things that fail to show up when the sky is polluted with light; fireflies, those flashing, nostalgic symbols of summer, often skip the party too.
—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
1 July 2026
Midland, Texas, is still cleaning up groundwater polluted by a leaking injection well more than two decades ago.
This discovery really tainted the momentum of our relationship.
—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
13 July 2026
Attorneys for the owners of the landfill, which stopped accepting trash last year, claimed this spring in the litigation that the lawsuits may be tainted by fraud.
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