60 pounds: The amount of habanero chiles that go into one batch of Chichen Itza’s habanero “table” sauce.

The habanero sauce has been on the menu at Chichen Itza, the Yucatecan restaurant at Mercado La Paloma in downtown Los Angeles since Gilberto Cetina and his son Gilberto Cetina, Jr. opened it in 2001. The sauce, says the younger Cetina, predated the restaurant, tracing back to his grandmother in Mexico and to his childhood home in Costa Mesa.