Amado Mexican Restaurant Opens March
Amado, a new Mexican restaurant in Burlingame, is set to open in March featuring regional specialties like cochinita pibil—Yucatán's slow-roasted pork. The menu will showcase dishes from across Mexico's culinary regions, including the north, Jalisco, and Nayarit. The opening continues the Bay Area's trend toward chef-driven, regionally focused Mexican dining.
- The restaurant is a family-run establishment, led by chef Gloria Dominguez, whose family has been in the Bay Area restaurant business for almost 40 years. Her son, Alfonso, designed the interior and beverage program, while her daughter, Erika, will help manage the kitchen. - Amado is located at 1100 Burlingame Ave., in the former location of the aircraft-themed restaurant, Flights; the seven-month renovation included removing a small airplane that was hanging from the ceiling. - To research the menu, Chef Dominguez traveled throughout Mexico, learning from traditional cooks in small villages as well as chefs in cities like Toluca and Puebla. - The menu will feature uncommon moles, such as a pink mole from Guerrero made with white chocolate, nuts, and beets, and a guava mole from Aguascalientes. - Beyond the highlighted cochinita pibil, the restaurant will offer other regional specialties like scallop aguachiles from Baja California, Puebla's chiles en nogada, and Jalisco's goat birria and tortas ahogadas. - The restaurant's interior was designed to feel like a contemporary Mexico City restaurant and has a seating capacity of about 126 people. - The family's previous restaurants include Taqueria Salsa, which opened in 1988, Tamarindo Antojeria, which closed in 2019, and Mia Comida Casera, which closed in the summer of 2024. - The project is a collaboration with Francisco Perez, a longtime family friend who operates the Burlingame location of the Peruvian restaurant Limón across the street.
