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Mexican food from a car repair shop - 4th August 2023

This place in Mexico City is special. During the day, it's a garage. But at night, it changes. The car mechanics leave. Then it becomes a restaurant for tacos.

And it's a busy place for tourists. Thousands eat here every year. Tonalli Palomino is a tourist guide. She takes people to taco restaurants.

Tonalli Palomino: "Suddenly the tourists stumble upon this really authentic and unique place, afterwards they leave having discovered something completely different."

The manager of the El Vilsito restaurant is surprised. The tourists come from across the world.

Isidro Hernandez Trejo: "They come from all over the world; from the United States, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, from everywhere."

One thing's certain – the visitors love the place. It's different from all the other taco restaurants in the city.

Rebecca Avila: "I’ve never experienced anything like this before, it is totally unique here."

Christian Avila: "It is a place that you would never have imagined to be something completely different in the daytime, from what it is at night."

The restaurant's inside the garage. In the afternoon, the kitchen starts preparing. Luckily, the mechanics and chefs are different. A big team works in the restaurant. They're careful – they don't want to mix motor oil and cooking oil!

There are lots of food tours in Mexico. It's big business. Now, more and more tourists visit here.