Quinones starts her day at 4 a.m., she said one recent morning as she swiftly moved from pot to pot to check the freshly made chicken soup, enchiladas and chile verde. “We have to decide whether it’s going to rain tomorrow,” joked Lee Fugate, a gray-haired Somis resident on his way to work at Point Mugu. Somis, as an unincorporated area of the county, has no such commission. His comment started off a morning ritual of jokes, insults and tall tales punctuated with loud and frequent laughter. A stocky man in overalls, Wilson runs a wind-machine business and is part of the first wave of customers. “That table there would be the Somis planning commission,” Chuck Wilson called out from one table, pointing at Lynch and his companions. ![]() People who prefer to pour his chokingly hot concoction on their morning burritos get it themselves from the kitchen refrigerator and then put it back. Quinones, a native of Mexico, makes her own salsa every morning, but Lynch brings a jar he prepares himself. ![]() It is the kind of place where people serve themselves the coffee and fill the empty cups of people at nearby tables without being asked. “Everybody sits, feels good, because it’s like in a house,” said Quinones, a short, dark-haired 47-year-old with large, bright brown eyes. ![]() A cabbage field is directly across the street from the cafe.īefore the lunch-time crowd showed up, the cafe was filled with small-town camaraderie. Somis has few other businesses-a hardware store, a beauty shop, Carlota’s Chic and Casuals clothing store and a dozen other small concerns.
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