Bay Area Edition | October 2022

DINING FEATURE

BY DANIEL WEEKS

COURTESY BARCENAS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

3 DISHES TO TRY

2 Barcenas Special Breakfast - $22.50 This breakfast menu item includes chilaquiles con huevos and fajita steak served with beans. 3 Tacos al Carbon - $16.50 This lunch menu item includes two chicken or beef fajita tacos served with rice, beans and guacamole. 1 Tacos Al Pastor - $16.50 In this dinner menu item, three tacos are lled with special marinated pork and served with charros and rice. Barcenas Mexican Kitchen 2508 S. Gulf Freeway, Ste. 102, League City 281-967-7142 www.barcenasmexicanrestaurant.com Hours: Mon.-Wed. 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Thu.-Sun. 8 a.m.-10 p.m.

General Manager Pepe Barcenas (right) poses with his son, Adan Barcenas.

COURTESY BARCENAS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

DANIEL WEEKSCOMMUNITY IMPACT

Barcenas Mexican Kitchen Family-owned Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants serve Bay Area since 1998 A fter being in business for 24 years, family-owned Bar- cenas Mexican Restaurant founder, Homero Barcenas, who owns the family chain with his wife, Josie Barcenas. The other two

three sons helping out on sta. “The chain has a lot of young people, and there are no com- plaints; everyone is happy with them. They know communication is very important,” Pepe said. Like its fellow locations, Barce- nas Mexican Kitchen has breakfast, lunch and dinner menus featuring a variety of classic Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes as well as seafood and cocktails. Lunch specials are served Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and locations occasionally host happy hours with $3.99 margaritas. “Three locations and 24 years—that says something. [Many people] know about the service that we have,” Pepe said.

opened its third location May 26, bringing its Mexican and traditional Tex-Mex food to League City at 2508 S. Gulf Freeway. Pepe Barcenas, general manager of the new location and part of the family that owns the business, said the restaurant and bar is o to a “great start” and that he expects the store to see further success in the winter months. “We try to give it the best quality to the people. If you give good quality, people don’t care [about] the price. That is important to the family,” he said. Pepe is the brother of the

locations are in Friendswood at 2200 W. Bay Area Blvd. and in La Marque at 11013 Delany St. Pepe said the family is from Guerrero, Mexico. He said his brother started working at an uncle’s restaurant when he was 14 years old in Mexico, and Pepe started working in the food indus- try at a Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen when he was 17. Before moving to work as the general manager of the new League City location, Pepe originally worked at the La Marque store for about seven years, he said. He now manages the new location with his

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