Salsa Verdi

At first it seemed like a normal neighborhood restaurant. The Mexican Festival on 102nd and Broadway in Manhattan is colorful, crowded and noisy. It was Friday about 10:45pm and the customers who were finishing up their dinners were talking - even yelling - over the live mariachi band. I took a seat at the bar, which was a little quieter and darker than the main dining room. At around 11, the mariachi stopped. I wondered why the bar seemed to be getting more crowded instead of less. A man sat do...