El Pariente started in 1997 as a pioneer in Mexican Catering and Mexican Banquet in Minnesota. Generational recipes from my parents, grandparents, and great‑grandparents in Morelos and Veracruz, regions near Puebla and Oaxaca in Mexico. As the years went by our customers wanted more than just Catering and Banquets, so in 2014 we opened Saint Paul East Side’s first Mexican Food Truck. Three years later in 2017 we opend our first and only Restaurant in White Bear Lake, Minneosta that has been visited and food eaten by a few known notable people. Few more years later El Pariente Mexican Grill got voted as the 2026 best mexican restaurant in the state of Minnesota "Best of Minnesota by The Minnesota Star Tribune"