Name: Progresso’s Tamale Parlor
Address: 230 Third St., Hollister
Owner: Margaret and Gilbert Zu
ñiga
Contact: 637-3279
There’s a fourth generation making tamales on Third Street the right way. “We grind our own corn for the masa, and hardly anyone does that,” said Margaret Zuñiga, who, with her brother Gilbert Zuñiga, owns Progresso’s Tamale Parlor in Hollister.
Progresso’s hand makes up to 20,000 tamales every year, Zuñiga said.
Since 1939, Progresso’s has been making tamales and cooking up traditional Mexican dishes. The restaurant has been passed down generation to generation.
Zuñiga said she runs into people throughout the Bay Area who remember eating at the restaurant as children.
The Zuñigas’ great-grandparents started the restaurant after coming to the country from the state of Zacatecas in central Mexico.
Tamales are $5 each, and specialty dinner plates range up to $12.
The restaurant is open 11am to 2pm Tuesday through Saturday for lunch. Dinner hours are 5pm to 8:30pm Tuesday through Friday and 4pm to 8:30pm Saturday and Sunday.
