"Last November, the Original Lindo Michoacan on Desert Inn was already only permitted 25 percent occupancy as the state tried to contain COVID-19 from spreading when a sinkhole opened in the floor of the dining room. Leaking pipes caused the sinkhole and forced the 31-year-old restaurant to close to make repairs. Now nearly nine months later, the restaurant reopened with lines out the door and renovations to refresh the space that turn a negative into a positive. The restaurant’s famous carnitas, slow cooked with oranges, return, as does the steak al cognac with its mushrooms, onions, sour cream, and cognac sauce, influenced by the French occupation of Mexico, and a dish Barajas’ grandmother used to make." - Susan Stapleton