Guild of San Marcos Forum

This makeshift walk-up dessert shop is just one of many Latino-owned food ventures in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood that skirt conventional business practices. On certain days of the week, the "Tamale Lady" works her way up and down Clark Avenue with her insulated cooler filled with warm banana leaf-wrapped tamales and plump, steamy gorditas. Other scrappy entrepreneurs accept orders for homemade empanadas, arepas or pan de queso.