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Family-run Mexican restaurant Canelas Placita opens in Peoria

🌮 Canelas Placita, a small, family-owned Mexican restaurant, has opened next to PetSmart on the southwest corner of Peoria and 91st Avenue in Peoria.

The food: Street-style tacos, burritos, tortas, quesadillas, chilaquiles, and seven kinds of elote. Also: Menudo on weekends. (Pictured: Tacos de cabeza, left, and elote.)

The drinks: Mexican sodas, aguas frescas, cafecito, beer.

The hours: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Closed Monday.