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Home » Mexican restaurants

Tag: Mexican restaurants

Posted inFood & Drink

Lonesome Rose joins Logan Square’s crowded modern Mexican field

by Mike Sula January 4, 2018August 18, 2021

But its food inspired by the “borderlands” is no ordinary Tex-Mex—or, really, Tex-Mex at all.

Posted inBlogs

Four former cops turned aldermen push for police access to assault rifles, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd May 5, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Heineken acquires the rest of Lagunitas Brewing Co.

Posted inFood & Drink

Mi Tocaya is all Diana Dávila’s own

by Mike Sula April 21, 2017August 18, 2021

The former Cantina 1910 chef returns with her progressive, personal, and provocative Mexican food.

The pastor taco is swamped by an avalanche of pineapple relish.
Posted inFood & Drink

Más makes Mexican with more and more and more . . .

by Mike Sula July 22, 2014August 18, 2021

At Más, a new Mexican spot in West Loop, more isn’t better.

Crispy redfish cradled in purple-tinted hibiscus tortillas.
Posted inFood & Drink

Takito Kitchen steers the taqueria into new territory

by Mike Sula April 29, 2013August 19, 2021

Takito Kitchen steers the taqueria into new territory.

Chicken torta (with bread that's less hamburger bun than baguette—crisp and chewy and fantastic), Gomez shrimp (a dish not as intriguing as it sounds), and Billy's Beerita (perfectly inoffensive).
Posted inFood & Drink

¡Ay Chiwowa!? Oy vey.

by Sam Worley April 1, 2013August 19, 2021

A visit to ¡Ay Chiwowa!, Billy Dec’s Mexican-themed nightclub, is a deflating experience.

Posted inBlogs

Ravenswood’s El Maya and the plight of the midscale Mexican restaurant

by Kate Schmidt February 22, 2013August 19, 2021

On Chicago’s dog-eat-dog midscale Mexican restaurant scene

Fish tacos at Mixteco Grill
Posted inFood & Drink

More Upscale Mex

by Mike Sula, David Hammond, Kate Schmidt and Laura Levy Shatkin October 22, 2009August 19, 2021

Eleven contenders in Chicago’s burgeoning upscale Mexican scene.

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