Review: El Potrero Carnes in Tijuana, a restaurant that is also a large sombrero

And a look at Southern California's peculiar nostalgia for big hat restaurants

What can I say here? The restaurant is a giant sombrero, and I am who I am. Sometimes knowing yourself too well is a curse.

As soon as I spotted El Potrero Carnes (“the corral”) on a recent drive around Tijuana, I knew I would try to write as many words about it as I could justify.

Would those words have any real point? Would they be interesting, or faili…