Restaurant Tantrum Exposes Mexican Class Divide
A tantrum in a restaurant in Mexico City made headlines this week - because it revealed so much about the country’s struggle with class hierarchy.
Sometimes the story lands right on your doorstep.
Over the road from the BBC office is a trendy-looking restaurant with black decor and wooden tables outside called Maximo Bistrot.
Occasionally we’d go for their set lunch menu, although it is a bit on the expensive side.
Good food, though. The menu includes rib eye of organic pork with porcini mushroom puree, sea bass with carrot and macadamia nut salad and seafood-and-toasted-garlic ravioli, with fresh broad beans.
You could often spy politicians and starlets of Mexican society lunching alongside you.
It was in the Maximo Bistrot that the country’s latest political scandal unfolded.
The place was packed, as it tends to be at the weekend.
In walks Andrea Benitez, a wealthy 20-something, looking for a table.
