Mario Hernández, owner of El Califa de León: ‘They named my grill cook a chef, and he began thinking he was a rock star’

15 Puede 2025, 08:15

“Don’t fix what isn’t broken,” says Mario Hernández Alonso, 66, owner of El Califa de León, nearly a year after the taquería — and grill cook Arturo Rivera — were awarded a Michelin star. Rivera thought he’d won a set of tires when he first heard about the prize. Now he’s left the taquería.