By 1994 after some years in the USA, we felt (with all due respect) that good and authentic
Mexican food was missing from most Mexican restaurants at the time. If we wanted to eat
good Mexican food, we had to travel far from the Huntington area, so we decided to open a
very small restaurant in East Northport, The lil Caboose.

In 1995, The lil Caboose, was awarded as one of "The Top Ten Restaurants Of Long
Island", by Newsday. By the end of 1996, with the support of our clientele, we opened the
Oaxaca restaurant in Huntington village, where we once again found ourselves the happy
recipients of an award, this time as one of Newsday's "The Best Top Ten List Of 1997."

We settled in Huntington with Oaxaca for ten years, enjoying customers from all over Long
Island. Our local Huntington clientele was growing in great numbers, so we felt it was time
to expand. During this time, school teachers invited us to give important lectures in their
schools on Mexican food and culture. We really enjoyed sharing our  knowledge
with the community. For these main reasons, we decided to open Quetzalcoatl, our full
scale restaurant, where we offer a richer variety of Mexican dishes and a full bar to allow
guests to sample delicious Mexican cocktails prepared the proper way.

The name Quetzalcoatl was chosen with much thought to its meaning and philosophy.
Taken from pre-Hispanic history and culture, the idea of "serving food for spirit" is at the soul
of our business. The native Mexican philosophy of respect for food/body combined with
gratitude in all activities is part of our daily life. Since "we are what we think and what we eat"
we serve food for the soul, from the heart of Mexico!

Buen apetito and muchas gracias!

Alex & Maria

Among the pre-Columbian cultures, there existed the idea of three different levels of
human consciousness: the first was represented by the reptile which sought only to
satisfy its basic material needs. The second was a mammal in which concepts are generated; this was a process which separated humans from the rest of nature.
These included art, religion, war, ego satisfaction and science. The third was
symbolized by birds: on this level, human consciousness finds its real destiny
following a path that leads to merging itself with the universe. In Mesoamerican
cultures these three different levels of consciousness have been represented by the
serpent, the jaguar and the quetzal or eagle. From its origins in all of the great
Mesoamerican civilizations the acquisition of this third level of consciousness has
been represented by a human emerging from a serpent. Today with the help of
anthropology, psychology and quantum physics, we can interpret the true
significance of QUETZALCOATL, the serpent with quetzal feathers. It shows the
transformation from the reptile to the higher consciousness. To reach this third level
one must first go through the mythical death to the first two levels of the serpent and
the jaguar; only then can one emerge to finally avoid separateness and feel merged
with every single thing in universe, symbolized by the bird perception from where we came and where we will return.