Mexican Restaurant is made around a friend’s family restaurant and the families immigration from Mexico to the United States in the 1960’s. Shortly upon arrival to New Jersey, the family started several restaurants of which only one remains. The project is built around an interview and mines how the family began cooking dishes for a clientele unfamiliar with Mexican cuisine out of necessity, satisfying a craving for exotic food. The cockroach figure references the well known child’s lullaby “La Cucaracha”. A lullaby our mothers sang, and the focus of the first live action technicolor film in Hollywood. The pictures speak to how Latinx people are framed within US history and contemporary culture as undesirable - yet the demand for Mexican food is insatiable, revealing a deep and perverse paradox.