The Historian · Bruno · Mexico City
Cantina La Ópera
Villa rode into the center in 1914 and, the story goes, put a bullet in this ceiling. The waiters will show you the hole. I let them — the myth is half the history.
A gilded 1890s cantina of carved cedar and mirrors where, legend holds, Pancho Villa fired a shot into the ceiling that is still up there.
— Bruno, The Historian
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