Chef Daniel Vargas came from Mexico City and started the way so many great chefs do — as a dishwasher. He worked every station in the kitchen, learned the food from the ground up, and in 2010 built Las Cazuelas with his wife.
That's why it tastes like somebody's home cooking — because around here, it is. Fifteen years on, the Pembroke Pines dining room on Pines Blvd is where the neighborhood comes to eat like family.