Today I'm not feeling my best due to a particularly rowdy night out with friends last night. Thank you, friends, it was a lovely time and now I feel like poo.
However, it occurred to me that I have not yet mentioned my newest restaurant craze. I am eating tons of Mexcian food these days - I avoided it pretty much for the first three years after I moved back to NYC from the West Coast because, let's face it, Mexcian food in CA is WAYYYY better than in NYC. But you know what? I can't take it anymore. I want my burritos and moles and margaritas and enchiladas suizas and guacamole and salsa. Venga me.
So.
First of all, the best Mexican restaurant in NYC hands down is El Parador on E34th Street. It's so good that I hesitated to even put it on my blog because I don't want tons of people flooding it and making it impossible to go to. The ambience is without par. If you have read any of my entries on restaurants and bars you know that I hate corporate America and bright light and tons of people. I am a city girl who believes in the echoing streets of noir films, the click of good shoes on cement in the rain. So if you like dim and chill you're gonna love this place. If you are looking for a place to meet people, go somewhere else.
El Parador is somewhat upscale - i.e., it's not a burrito shack, it's a sit-down restaurant with excellent service and great food and fabulous margaritas and is completely reasonably priced.
Seeing as I live in Brooklyn and am not often willing to travel to Manhattan for Mexican I, and my Brooklyn-savvy friends, are doing research on where to go in the BK. So far (I've tried two places recently) my favorite is the newly remodeled Rachel's Taqueria on 5th Ave in Park Slope. There's another location, but I haven't checked that one out yet. Rachel's on 5th Ave has a bunch of yummy burritos. My favorite (and of course the name escapes me NOW) is a shrimp burrito with guacamole and a spicy sauce and no beans. It's really good. The food is good, not great, but good. It's a little overpriced but it's a little nicer than your average burrito shack - I mean, this is Park Slope after all.
Soon I will venture to Greenwood Heights where there seems to be a decent Mexican population and try more. And I'll let you know what I find. My friends recommend Taqueria DF and I'm anxious to try it.
1 comment:
"Good, not great."
It sounds like my life.
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