Palermo Holdups

The swanky Palermo Viejo/Soho nabe (where yours truly does live) has become a bit of a free-fire zone, if you follow the news reports. In the last three weeks, there have been at least three "restaurant invasions", in which gun wielding folks hit a restaurant at dinner in order to--efficiently, we note--rob both the restaurant and all the eating patrons. First, there was Mex joint Xalapa in late June, then bar Navata in early July, then last Sunday night it was Un Gallo para Esculapio. All occurred between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m.