Latin Restaurant Weeks seeks to celebrate Atlanta's Hispanic and Latino-owned food businesses

A culinary worker at La Bodega, a metro Atlanta Latin restaurant, prepares the restaurant's specialty dish, Salvadoran pupusas. It’s made with corn flour dough and stuffed with different fillings. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Latin American restaurants around metro Atlanta are welcoming new and old customers during this year’s Latin Restaurant Weeks (LRW).

The event, which runs through Nov. 17, seeks to support Hispanic and Latino-owned small businesses with a two-week-long celebration filled with special festivities and offers.

At La Bodega in the Southwest corner of Metro Atlanta, owner Jeannette Flores-Katz washes her hands and grabs some masa — a corn flour dough. She stuffs the ball of dough with cheese and black beans before slapping it on a freshly oiled grill.