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Critic Brad A. Johnson says San Juan Capistrano’s El Campeon deserves landmark status
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • July 30, 2019
El Campeon is as much a historical landmark in San Juan Capistrano as the old San Juan Mission just up the street.  This old Mexican butcher shop and bakery-turned-taqueria has been around forever, and for as long as it’s been around El Campeon...
The full article can be read on the Orange County Register website.

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