California Groundbreakers

We're running a monthly series called "Food for Thought," in-depth conversations with groundbreakers who run farms, restaurants, wineries, breweries and bars around California and are shaking up the way we eat and drink. Our third talk is with "Los Autenticos," four well-known restaurateurs known for their Mexican cuisine. All of them have opened up new hotspots in Sacramento during the past year, and they're intent on serving authentic food and drink the way it should be prepared -- and serving it up in settings that reinforce the fact you are indeed eating the "real" thing. To get an early start on celebrating Mexico's Independence Day, we talked with the four señores at Casa de Español, a great place to celebrate Latin American culture, to hear how their cultural roots and backgrounds led them to their present roles as Sacramento's ambassadors of Mexican cuisine. PANELISTS * Art Aguilar and Max Archuleta - this dynamic duo teamed up to open the open-air Midtown's Cantina Alley in February, an immediat