Otaez Mexicatessen
by tanabutler
a while ago
3872 International Boulevard, Oakland, CA, 94601
Description:
Otaez Mexicatessen
3872 International Blvd. (at 39th Avenue); (510) 536-0909. Open 6 a.m.-10 p.m. daily.
From the SF Chronicle: "Waiting for a weekend table at Otaez, out on Oakland's International Boulevard, can be exquisite torture. Steaming bowls of caldo de pollo rush by, trailing a heady chicken-chipotle cloud. It's a sheer act of will not to follow along and make quick friends with the people who ordered it."
"Every seat is full for lunch on a typical Saturday or Sunday at Otaez, one of the oldest and best-known Mexican restaurants on International Boulevard in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. It's down-home Mexican cooking, saucy and good."