Just down the street in Sunnyslope is a restaurant that has captured my heart (both in terms of love and high cholesterol). It’s a small unassuming Mexican restaurant called “Los Reyes de la Torta” and they serve enormous and delicious sandwiches on soft Mexican bread. At only $8 for a meal, this place is easy on the checkbook for a Jesuit Volunteer on a $100 per month stipend.
Check out the video below from the Travel Channel show “Man vs. Food.” If you skip ahead to the 6-minute mark, you’ll see a segment on this restaurant. The sandwich that the chef prepares in the video is the exact same sandwich I ate yesterday– complete with breaded beef, chorizo omelet, etc. It’s seriously a LOT of food for one sandwich. And spicy.
The last two weekends have also been filled with adventure. I recently went south with four of the Phoenix JVs to visit the Jesuit Volunteer casa in Tucson, affectionately named “Casa Nacho” after Spanish Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuria There, we celebrated the birthdays of two of their casa-mates and went to the city’s fall “Club Crawl” which closed several blocks of downtown for a large party with lots of live music.
Last weekend, a few of us hiked up Squaw Peak on the north side of Phoenix– a beautiful and long hike into and around the mountains. Below is a short slideshow of our trek into the mountains and our dinner in Tucson.
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peace,
glenn
