Tajín Chico is a restaurant where you can find a mix of singular taste and natural beauty, it keeps the traditional charm of the mexican taste. Our gastronomy is influenced by the Totonacapan region where any kind of person will feel amazing to enjoy the main ingredient which is corn and the taste we provide with our service.
The base of the totonaca food is the corn, main ingredient from the prehispanic cultures which is mix with earth products such as pumpkins, black beans, pipian, edible leafs of quelite, malago, izote flower, aromatic herbs and a variety of chili. This created the typical food that we enjoy nowaday.
Our restaurant is a quiet, tropical and natural venue where you can rely on the charm of a nice surrounding and filled with the joy that El Tajín provides. Also, we are just steps away from the archaeological area of El Tajín.
Nowdays the way of cooking hasn’t changed much, speaking of the content and the making, because the local people keep ingesting the traditional atoles, quelites, tamales and the “meat of the mountain”.
Among the dishes that are common in the Totonacapan are the purple corn atole, the chili sweet atole, jobo’s atole, capulín’s, burn tortilla’s, beans and corn’s, pork and coriander’s tamal, beans in guatape or pozole, fried ortiga’s flower, izote’s flower pipian, fish and egg scone, mamey’s seed enchiladas and several deserts.
Before sitting at the table, the totonaca people wash their hands, for that they place a hand wash at the entrance gate of the house or kitchen, and sometimes, when the leader of the family arrives from the field, he must take a bath before eating, and the food must always be fresh and recently cooked.
