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Iztaccihuatl is a South Philadelphia BYO that serves as a regular Mexican restaurant during the day and a "glorified hall party" for twerking teens at night.

Itza hot mess

By Dan Spinelli · Oct. 21, 2015

It’s Saturday: 5:20 p.m. There are three hours until a party of 60 Penn students is set to arrive at Iztaccihuatl, and John Lewis, the one-man show behind the popular BYO restaurant in South Philadelphia, is giving me an earful.