Mexican Restaurants
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Empellon Cocina
105 1st Ave., East Village, NYWe are pretty tough on Mexican food in this city. Only two restaurants have a rating of over 8.0 on Immaculate Infatuation, one being La Esquina, which is probably more about the experience than it is the food. To us, putting a couple of fancy tacos on a menu and charging twenty bucks doesn’t make [...]
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Rockaway Taco
95-19 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Queens, NYAny Infatuation follower knows that we bitch like broken records about the lack of quality taco joints in Manhattan. The truth is, for the best tacos in the five boroughs, you need to get the f*ck out of Manhattan and take a trip to Rockaway Beach before the summer is over. Rockaway Taco and their [...]
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Gran Electrica
5 Front St., Brooklyn, NYWe’ve done plenty of complaining about the lack of good Mexican food in New York, and to be honest, we’re sick of talking about it. Saying there’s no good Mexican in this city is the tantamount to saying that Times Square sucks. Not exactly breaking news. But today might be the day that we can [...]
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La Esquina Brasserie
114 Kenmare St., Nolita, NYIf you read our review of the cafe and taqueria, you know that we’re fans of the food at La Esquina. It’s easy to like fresh Mexican favorites in a casual environment. But what happens when you put a guy with a clipboard and some very dangerous stairs in between us and dinner? In most [...]
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Toloache
251 W. 50th St, Midtown, NYFinding a good restaurant in Times Square is harder than getting Rex Ryan to lay off the GODDAMN SNACKS. But people – there’s hope. Deep in the heart of this culinary dead-zone and in close proximity to Radio City, Roseland and Nokia Theatre sits Toloache; an upscale Mexican restaurant in the same family as Infatuation [...]
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La Esquina Cafe & Taqueria
114 Kenmare St., Nolita, NYThis moment has been a long time coming. All three La Esquinas (cafe, taqueria and brasserie) have been in our heavy rotation since the days when the bridge and tunnel crowd rocked Von Dutch instead of Ed Hardy. It’s about time we got around to actually writing about them. This review is specifically for the [...]
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Barrio Chino
253 Broome St., Lower East Side, NYA little expensive and extremely cramped, but Barrio Chino is worth the wait.
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La Lucha
147 Avenue A, East Village, NYA different kind of taco than East Village favorites like Mercadito Cantina and Mercadito, this is down and dirty, south of the border style with more flair, wrestling paraphernalia and toys. It’s kind of like eating Mexican street food at Kid Robot.
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Café De La Esquina
225 Wythe Ave., Williamsburg, NYThe folks at La Esquina were smart to tone it down when they made the venture across the East River to Williamsburg. An exclusive dungeon dining room guarded by a guy with a clipboard and a ponytail might work just fine in Nolita, but that stuff ain’t gonna play in Brooklyn. Instead, management took their [...]
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Los Feliz
109 Ludlow St., Lower East Side, NYLa Esquina for the common folk, where the vibe and the drinks are the stars but with stellar food to boot. This cozy taqueria upstairs opens up into a raucous fiesta downstairs.
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