If you can make it past the radioactive security guards on the judicial side of the Cameron County Courthouse, past District County Clerk Aurora De La Garza's minions trying to get you on jury duty, past the child support payment windows, and then through the gantlet of construction workers building the new court, maybe, just maybe, you might make it to the county coffee shop.
Amadeo Rodriguez's coffee shop (next to Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector Tony Yzaguirrez's office) used to be a straight shot to the right after you cleared the security screeners at the courthouse doors. But with the addition of another County Court-at-Law, county commissioners scrounged around for space to house the new court. They decided to squeeze it into the only empty space available there – the corridor next to Judge Gilbert Rosa's office.
Now to get to the coffee shop for a shot of Joe, you must traverse a zig-zag corridor that leads back toward the rear of the corridor and then west toward the sm
ell of coffee.It was helpful that they hung a big sign to put over the hallway pointing in the general direction of the restaurant. Once you get there, the Rodriguez family siblings are still there to serve up tortillas and other goodies that have become known for.
They "Trey" Garza Special breakfast flour tortilla taco still holds an allure for full-figure taquito aficionados and Trey's portly (but content) exuberance is testimony to its savory mixture of ingredients like potatoes, eggs, bacon, etc. that make it a crowd favorite.
But in our book, it is the tostadas heaped with a mix of seasoned beans and hamburger meat topped with a mountain of yellow cheese (no es del gobierno) and whipped up by la guerita who rules the grill that is the main attraction.
If it falls on your lot to be in the courthouse during a breakfast or lunch, it pays to enter the maze and follow your stomach to the cafe. There's a savory tostada with cheese at the end of it.
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