Giant Television Screen: Hungarian Immigrant

Legend In This Town Dept: The restaurant was officially closed during my first visit -to diners, anyway -because of some squabble between Mexican bureaucrats and the Hungarian-Canadian owner whom everybody in this tiny Pacific Coast village knows simply as Sandor. Two names seem so unnecessary in a small town where everybody knows everybody and tourists become part of the family in just a few days, according to Vancouver Sun. Sandor is a legend in this town. A Hungarian immigrant who had been living in Timmins, he hauled a small trailer onto a vacant lot on San Agustinillo's main street about 30 years ago and never left. The trailer is still there, but Sandor lives elsewhere in town with his Mexican wife and children and my first visit to the breezy Mexican seaside restaurant El Paraiso del Pescador was to watch Olympic hockey. Nine months later, I returned to the restaurant in the small fishing village of San Agustinillo for a delicious filete pescado la Veracruzana fish in a spicy tomato sauce . But first, the hockey. The fuss at the restaurant occurred during the Vancouver Winter Olympics, so Sandor, as a courtesy to his many Canadian customers, moved aside all the tables and set up chairs around a giant television screen. Diehard hockey fans with no access to television, let alone Canadian television, suddenly had a tropical environment to watch Canada take gold. You could bring your own beer and snacks, seeing as how the kitchen was locked up. As reported in the news.
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