Viva Zapata's Mexican Restaurant & Cantina

This friendly joint lures locals with homestyle Mexican dishes, margaritas & live guitar music.

Emiliano Zapata was born in the village of San Miguel Anenecuilco in the state of Morelos on the 8th of August 1879. The son of a strong farmer, Zapata grew up to become the most famous leader of the Mexican Revolution. A gifted organizer, Zapata also spoke Náhuatl, his local indigenous language. Elected leader of his village in 1909, Zapata began recruiting an insurgent army even before the Revolution beginning in 1910 which overthrew the dictator Porfirio Diaz. Zapata’s Liberation Army of the South did not accept the new reformist government under Francisco I. Madero.