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Jake LindemanGrand Morelos on Grand Avenue in East Williamsburg is a 24-hour Mexican diner that specializes in quinceaera cakes and never-ending cups of 90 cent coffee. The restaurant does more...
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LindemanChicharron preparado, a popular Mexican snack, has many guises. All start with a crispy chip of chicharron (fried pork skin), which serves as a blank canvas for various toppings and...
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Scarlett Lindeman
It took full, active engagement of the servers' biceps to lower the cochinita pibil onto the table. The pibil, an entire pork shoulder slow-roasted and burnished with achiote, the...
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Brisket taco drenched with toppings
Many people have been comparing the Flatiron's new Tres Carnes to the fast-casual model of Chipotle, with its assembly-line and infinitely customizable tacos and burritos. But...
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Scarlett Lindeman
Among the cans of Sprite and bottles of Jarritos at Mexican bodegas, restaurants, and grocery-with-a-taqueria-in-back hybrids throughout the city, there may be the occasional can of pulque ($2-$2.50) on...
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Ericka Martins
Of the coterie of taco trucks that line Roosevelt Avenue from Woodside to Corona, El Gallo Giro is one of the most popular. It's a cart that only comes...
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Scarlett LindemanSipping pechuga at Cario
Recently, tequila has been sharing shelf space with more interesting agave-based alcohols. At bars around the city, artisanal mezcal, bacanora, and pulque are catching the eye...
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Scarlett LindemanEl Tenampa's tacos (left to right): panza negra, carne enchilada, panza blanca
Out on 21st Street in Brooklyn, in the neighborhood that real-estate agents like to call the South Slope...
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Scarlett Lindeman
While seasonal foodie rapture over ramps and fiddlehead ferns is starting up, there's another vegetable that's also having a moment--and is even harder to find. Huazontle, a sturdy edible...
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The press has been fawning over Salvation Taco, April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman's Mexican-inspired bar in Murray Hill, ever since it opened two months ago, and for good reason--the...
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Scarlett Lindeman
Those who have tasted a good bowl of birria, the Mexican soup from Jalisco made from toasted chiles and roasted goat, know it's a soup that inspires a rapture...