Gerardo Santillan has got to be the hardest working restaurateur in Oklahoma City.
Santillan owns and operates La Queretana Bakery in the morning, delivering fresh-out-the-oven pan dulce, among other sweet (and some not so sweet) treats, to the Southside; then, sometime around lunch, he heads on over to the Northside to his restaurant El Tejano, 2131 W. Hefner Rd., to cook up homemade Mexican food late into the evening. (He’s also in the middle of building a new Latin grocery store next-door, but we’ll talk about that some other time.)