Tycoon Carlos Slim is weighing bringing the iconic Mexican restaurant and retail store Sanborns to Manhattan, in what would be his latest foray into the US.

Sanborns, a unit of Slim’s holding company Grupo Carso, is a staple of Mexican life, with stores across the country where shoppers can buy anything from underwear to a plate of spicy chilaquiles, a traditional dish, or even pay a phone bill.

“What we are looking at is the possibility of opening a first Sanborns in Manhattan,” Arturo Elias Ayub, a spokesman and close aide of Slim. “There is nothing defined yet.”

Slim, who holds about 6.9 percent of the New York Times Class A shares, earlier this year bought, along with other investors, a Fifth Avenue mansion near Central Park for $44 million.