Bobby Salazar's Restaurant & Cantina

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1129 E. Champlain Dr.

(559) 433-9980

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You will find displayed throughout the restaurant a collection of Mexican folk art.  I am honored to have papier-mache skeletons made by the world famous Linares Family and Cesar Duranton from Mexico City.  In addition, I have a wonderful collection of papier-mache alebrijes.  These pieces are the animals that have strange wings and long curling tongues that emerge from the open mouth if imagination.  These are fantastic figures.  Some have tails like dragons, though not really being dragons.  They are painted in a multitude of colors that attenuate their shocking appearance, and inject them with a bit of humor and tenderness.  These pieces are also the fruit of the imagination of the Linares Family, the indisputable masters of the art of alebrijes, creations of sculptures from layers of paper.  The clay plates adorning the arched walls were designed and made by Javier Ramos of Tonala, Mexico.  The following artist from Oaxaca hand-carved and painted the wooded animal figurines: Enrique Ramirez, Catrino Carillo, Martin Fabian, Antonio Carrillo, Armondo Jimenez and Edilberto Cortes.  The wooden hand-carved and painted animal masks on the walls are also from Oaxaca.  In the present day Mexico, more than fifty distinct indigenous groups use masks in the performance of dances and pageants.  The painting, which adorns the kitchen wall, was by an artist from Mexico City, Breceda, his work is available in the Polanco art gallery in the Hayes District of San Francisco.  A local artist, Skip Thornbury from Kingsburg, hand-painted the colorful murals, which depict the artwork of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

I hope you enjoy and appreciate this wonderful collection of Mexican folk art!