Mexican
- Test Driving Nine Lives and Tigre Tacos - a bit of London Bridge bar life at home
Tacos, cocktails, a play list and even incense for the atmosphere - we get Nine Lives bar delivered to our home.
- Test Driving Kol - Santiago Lastra's winning fine-dining Mexican restaurant hits Marylebone
Santiago Lastra has brought a fine-dining edge to his new Mexican restaurant Kol. We head down to Marylebone to check it out.
- Los Mochis brings a Mexican/Japanese mash-up to Notting Hill
This new Notting hill restaurant from a Middle East restaurateur is something of a mash-up between Mexican and Japanese cuisines with plenty of added mezcal and tequila.
- Sonora Taqueria is the new Netil Market place from the Pollo Feliz folk
Over lockdown, Netil Market's Pollo Feliz did a roaring trade in deliveries with East Londoners becoming more than slightly obsessed by their tortillas. So much so, that they've been able to expand with a bigger stall and a new direction. As first reported by Eater, they've become Sonora
... - Kol is the London restaurant from Noma Mexico's Santiago Lastra
He was the man behind the launch of Noma Mexico and now Santiago Lastra is opening his own restaurant in London called Kol. It'll feature Mexican cuisine with UK ingredients.
- Santo Remedio launch meal kits with short-rib tacos, duck carnitas and more
We've said this before, but one of the good things to come out of the lockdown has been the growth of the make at home meal-kits. There are some cracking options out there - and this latest from excellent Mexican restaurant Santo Remedio looks like another winner.
They're launching the Remedy Kits - with the three kits
... - Hotbox opens Chingon, a Mexican restaurant in Hatch End
The people behind Hotbox have changed their Hatch End Chuck Burgers site into a Mexican taqueria called Chingon, with tacos, tostadas and more on the menu.
- Test Driving Decimo - classy high-rise dining in King's Cross
He already has a Michelin star in Bristol and now Peter Sanchez-Iglesias has arrived in London, with the flagship restaurant Decimo at the top of The Standard hotel in King's Cross. We went down to check it out.
- El Pastor have opened a second Pastorcito, at Mercato Metropolitano
Having only recently launched its first Pastorcito at the newly opened Arcade Food Theatre, the team behind El Pastor have already opened a second, this time at Mercato Metropolitano in Elephant and Castle. The El Pastor spin off from the Hart Brothers and Crispin Somerville is inspired by the market taquerias of Mexico, and offers a short menu of tacos, ’Super Gringa’ wheat wraps, frozen margaritas, Mexican beers, tequila and
... - Wahaca weighs up PR cost of forcing a waiter to pay for 'eat and run' diners' bill
It's been a bad weekend for Mexican restaurant group Wahaca who spent the weekend dealing with the fallout from a Twitterstorm which blew up on Saturday night.
It all began when the former Labour Leader of Camden Council, Sarah Hayward, tweeted this:
...Hi @wahaca just eaten in your Kentish Town restaurant
- Corazon is bringing their tacos (and frozen margaritas) to Westfield London
Following up on their popular Soho restaurant, next for Corazon is a taco bar in Westfield London. They'll have some new tacos - as well as plenty of margaritas.
- Test Driving Santo Remedio's bottomless Mexican brunch
London restarants serve up countless bottomless brunches every weekend, but some of those stand out more than others. Santo Remedio's bottomless Mexican brunch is one of them.
- Santo Remedio
A proper authentic Mexican restaurant at London Bridge.
- Hacha in Dalston is a tequila and mezcal bar with Mexican sharing plates
This Dalston tequila and mezcal bar features margaritas on tap, all the agave spirits you could need and is backed up by a Mexican sharing menu.
- Top Mexican chef Enrique Olvera is coming to London for a cookbook tour
Now this IS a big deal. If you've never made it across the pond to try Enrique Olvera's amazing Cosme restaurant in NYC (or for that matter Pujol in Mexico City) - 25 and 13 respectively in the World's 50 Best Restaurants list - then you are in for a treat. Olvera is coming to London for a food tour to coincide with the publication of his ‘Tu Casa Mi Casa' with Phaidon and there will be opportunities to try his food.
First he's cooking a supper at Casa
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