May 03, 2006 Food & Wine

Bring Out the Pinata 

Pancho's Mexican Restaurant celebrates 50 years.

by Bianca Phillips
It was a humble beginning. In 1956, when the first Pancho's Mexican Restaurant opened in West Memphis, Arkansas, the floors were packed dirt. The restaurant's centerpiece was a live tree salvaged during the building's construction. Fifty years later, the dirt has been…

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