Irma Leal

by | Oct 17, 2019 | Bright Lights

In 2015 Foodways Texas honored Irma Leal with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions in preserving and celebrating the culture of Mexican food in Texas. And when you enter Leal’s Mexican Food Restaurant in Muleshoe, you are greeted by a picture of her...

Jesse Leal 1930-2009

by | Mar 11, 2010 | Bright Lights

Leal’s Mexican Restaurant is one of  Muleshoe’s main claims to fame, a busy little place that started out as a convenient stop on the east end of American Boulevard in the 50s for green-card holding braceros to grab lunch, became a meeting place for the...