The history of the torta ahogada in the Bay Area, like many of the region's finest food stories, revolves around bread.

With a multitude of fillings, such as pork and pineapple or tamales, the Mexican torta boasts nearly endless varieties. In the case of a typical torta, the bread is a crusty, oblong bolillo roll or ...

The torta ahogada, or “drunken sandwich”, is the king of Mexican sandwiches. Mightier than the torta Cubano, or even the Mexico City-style pambazo, this symbolic sandwich of Guadalajara is a mammoth ...

After years of offering hard-to-find homestyle dishes from Mexico's Jalisco state, one of the East Bay's most prominent home ...

OAKLAND, California -- Visit Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, and you won't find a single wet burrito anywhere, but you will find its distant cousin -- the torta ahogada. It is a sandwich ...

The first time I tasted a torta ahogada (drowned sandwich) was at Pony Up, a Denver restaurant that specializes in French dip sandwiches. It’s Mexico’s answer to a French dip and comes from the ...

Jorge Rojo, chef-owner of Ro-Ho Pork & Bread in San Antonio, left the practice of law behind for the crusty exterior and cushion-soft interior of the birote sourdough bread typical of his hometown, ...

My story begins at Panchito’s Mexican restaurant over dinner with a large group of friends. A man I’ll call Dr. Moreau, a successful local physician, challenged me to investigate what he called the ...

First in a series devoted to Chicago restaurants offering regional dishes West of Mexico City on the Pacific coast, Jalisco is sometimes called the most Mexican state in Mexico. It ranges from coastal ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Visit Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, and you won't find a single wet burrito anywhere, but you will find its distant cousin -- the torta ahogada. "It's sold in ...