Mexican

• Pretty Decent Beer Co are opening a taproom by Victoria Park (with Mexican food)

  

  If you're looking for a quick beer after walking around Victoria Park, this upcoming taproom sounds like it'll be well worth a look.

  It comes from Pretty Decent Beer Co who already have taprooms in Walthamstow and Forest Gate. Their latest is taking over a canal-side building near the park (it used to be a distillery for East London Liquor Co). They'll have

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• Santo Remedio's latest authentic Mexican restaurant is in Marylebone

  

  23/10/24 - updated with the opening date

  It would have been hard to believe it could happen less than a decade ago, but these days London has some really great Mexican restaurants.

  One of the restaurants that really helped to kick all this off is Santo Remedio, which first opened back in 2016 in Shoreditch. Run by Edson and Natalie Diaz-Fuentes it

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• Test Driving Fonda - home cooked Mexican food (if your home cook also happens to be a Michelin-starred chef)

  

  On top of having one of the World's 50 Best restaurants with Kol, chef Santiago Lastra has branched out with a new more informal offering in Fonda. We nipped over to Heddon Street to check it out.

• Velvet Taco are bringing fish & chip and shepherd's pie tacos to London

  

  If you've never thought about putting shepherd's pie or fish and chips in a taco, then you just aren't thinking out of the box enough. Because that's what's going to be on offer when US taco chain Velvet Tacos comes to London. They've picked the UK as the first country to open outside of America.

  If, like us, you hadn't heard of the company before, their USP is making tacos with "globally inspired flavours". That

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• The best tacos in London

  

  The Mexican food scene has never been better in London - which means there are some amazing tacos out there. We've rounded up the best places for you.

• Kol's Santiago Lastra to open Mexican restaurant Fonda in Mayfair

  

  25/9/24 - updated with opening date. 

  With the Michelin-starred Kol getting praise from all quarters (not to mention a place on the World's 50 Best list), it was only a matter of time before chef Santiago Lastra got ready to open another place. For that second restaurant, he's chosen Heddon Street, where he'll be launching Fonda. 

  Not actually named after

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• Conchita's Mexican Kitchen will serve up breakfast burritos and tacos in Selfridges Food Hall

  

  A Mexican salsa business, founded on a grandmother's amazing recipes, is gearing up for its first big London opening. Conchita's Mexican Kitchen has been popping up in food halls and residencies around London and Brighton for the past year or so. But now it's entering the big league with a restaurant in Selfridges Food Hall.

  The man behind it is New Yorker Javier Vera-Abbassi whose grandmother Conchita

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• Bar crawl: mezcal martinis and top-tier tostadas at No.23, the new bar at Carousel

  

  Bringing a taste of Mexico to Fitzrovia the new permanent bar at Carousel, No.23, feels like a sure-fire hit.

• Test Driving Los Mochis City - sushi and tacos against a high rise backdrop

  

  It's already one of the buzziest new openings in the City. We took the lift up to the rooftop at Los Mochis City to check out the scene for ourselves. 

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  Santiago Lastra's Mexican restaurant in Marylebone

• CDMX tacos sees Soho getting a Mexico City-style taqueria

  

  Remember last year when Supernova opened its doors in Soho with a seriously pared-back aesthetic and menu, and was an immediate hit? Well, a new place with similar vibes has just opened in the next street to them and are hoping to be an equally runaway success. CDMX Tacos is the name and it's

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• Cavita is taking over the menu at Shoreditch's Seed Library for tacos and tostadas

  

  Ryan Chetiyawardana's Seed Library bar in Shoredirch has had some notably great residencies since it opened, with recent takeovers including My Neighbours The Dumplings and Norman's Café. Their next team-up looks just as good, with Cavita the next place to take over the food menu for three months. 

  Chef Adriana Cavita's restaurant in Marylebone, celebrating

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• El Cenote aims to give Camden folk an authentic Mexican experience with top tacos and margaritas

  

  The idea of opening a Mexican margarita and tacos joint somewhere like Camden definitely seems like it makes good business sense. But what makes the arrival of El Cenote interesting is that rather than being one of those chain restaurants, this is an bar devised and run by two Mexicans.

  Owner Aima Indigo is a Mexican model turned restaurateur who used to work at La Bodega Negra and Mexcalito.

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• Aguamiel are bringing Mexican churros to Covent Garden

  

  25/3/24 - Updated with the opening date

  Billed as a London 'first' the arrival of Mexican churreria Aguamiel aims to introduce Londoners to the joys of Mexican churros. If, like us, you weren't sure what the difference was between Spanish and Mexican doughnuts, then let owner Bernardo enlighten you.

  "The main difference between Mexican churros and Spanish is the way they are eaten and presented,"

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• El Pastor brings tacos and mezcal to Battersea Power Station

  

  13/3/24 - Updated with the opening date and new dishes

  The openings at Battersea Power Station are still coming thick and fast. The latest to join an ever-growing number of impressive places to eat and drink there is El Pastor. 

  This will be the fourth incarnation of El Pastor, which is already in Borough, Soho and King's Cross. If you've yet to come

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