Fonda Santa Fe: A Market Stall Made Fancy and Imported to
Avenida Revolución  Categories: Tijuana Sí!  Dave Lieberman I'd
always known that food in Mexico was both fantastic and cheap,
but I'd never really thought about it until I added up all the
costs for food that my friend Weston and I ate during a week in
Jalisco last year, so we could square up before heading back to
our respective cities. We spent more on one glorious, absolutely
worth every penny meal at Misión 19 in Tijuana the night before
Volaris carried us away than we spent for the week that
followed.  The secret to eating cheaply in Mexican cities is to
go to the markets. Markets throughout the country feature home-
cooking, mom-and-pop restaurants called fondas. They're nearly
always presided over by jovial women, and there's nearly always
a line of cazuelas, earthenware dishes, filled with the stews of
the day. You order your main dish, which is scooped into a pan
and heated to steaming, and it comes with soup, rice or noodles,
and tortillas he