El Molino Central

 

 

I live across the street from one awesome little restaurant in Boyes Hot Springs. It's a small little place that serves organic mexican food and pours Blue Bottle Coffee.  The food started as a wholesale kitchen primavera years ago.  We always called to order tamales for our parties. They were very customer friendly, and if you didn't know what you were going to cook for dinner you could knock on their kitchen door and buy a family-sized order for a buck a tamale, whip up a salad and have dinner in a few minutes.  And then someone (some crazy person) reported them to the licensing board for selling retail and that had to stop.  But you could continue to put in special wholesale orders as well and buy them from the refrigerator section of the local market.  Their goods are also sold at Bay Area Farmers' Markets.  So Karen is the owner, and not quite a year ago (Memorial Day Weekend 2010) she rented a little storefront on the corner of Sonoma Highway and Central Avenue.  And it is amazing!

 

 

 

 

Many a morning I head over for a cup of Blue Bottle Coffee which they make by pouring it through Melita drips, a dozen hand-made, warm, organic corn tortillas (wrapped in brown paper) to eat buttered and served with fruit for breakfast. 

 

 

This little restaurant has fast become a family favorite!

 

 

Comments

[Stephanie]

Yes! El Molino has become our fall back, too, ever since I tried their food a few months ago. I love going there, the place is so cute and friendly - the tile floor alone and all those colors... the food could be lousy, I'd still want to *stand* there... And luckily the food is fantastic, too - just much more hmm, "vibrant"? than the classic mexican food you find elsewhere... We're still working on increasing our tolerance for chilies (ouch, ouch, ouch!) but their food is worth the challenge...
Cheers, and welcome back, Marianne!
It's lovely just to know you are back in our town!

[jaykaym]

I wish I could come for breakfast with you! And I use the old Melita drip carafe everyday, too. Makes great coffee and doesn't require counter space or taste like plastic like it does when you use a 'Mr. Coffee' style maker.

[Rebekah]

OMG, warm buttery tortillas and Blue Bottle coffee?! YES PLEASE.