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What do repairing cars and making tacos have in common?

In Mexico City, the answer is actually a garage.

This workshop is a mechanics' workplace by day, and a taco restaurant - a taqueria - by night.

The place has become a very common stop on the city's food tours and it attracts hundreds and hundreds of tourists each year.

Tonalli Palomino's job is to take foreign visitors around different taquerias.

The manager of El Vilsito finds it amazing that people come from so far away.

And they simply want to try the restaurant's famous tacos!

There's no doubt that the customers absolutely love the unusual set-up here at the garage.

It makes it different from the other 2,800 taquerias around the city.

Preparations start to build up in the afternoon.

Only a metal curtain divides the two busy workplaces, but don't worry if your car's being repaired as the chefs and mechanics are different.

There's no danger they'll replace cooking oil with motor oil!

There's a whole team working in the restaurant kitchen.

Food tours are now big business in Mexico City, and if you visit this busy little stop, you can see why.

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