Mexican

• Taqueria's second restaurant in sixteen years is in Exmouth Market

  

  They've been a hit in Notting Hill for years, but now Taqueria is heading to the east to open its second restaurant. Expect tacos, tostadas, quesadillas, margaritas and more.

• Test Driving Tacos Padre - where Mexico meets the beating heart of Borough Market

   

  Taqueria by day, this Borough Market Kitchen restaurant transforms into a fully-fledged restaurant in the evening, celebrating Mexico's food culture in the heart of London.

• Tigre Tacos is kicking off a residency at The Gunmakers in Clerkenwell

   

  As pubs return, we're starting to see a lot more pub residencies being announced and the latest of these is Tigre Tacos. 

  Up until now, they've been popping up with their food truck at the alfresco Nine Lives Alley in Bermondsey, which is where we first tried

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• El Pastor is opening a new Taqueria in Soho (taking over the Hix location)

  

  Taking over the old Hix space, El Pastor's latest Mexican restaurant is landing in Soho. Alongside tacos and tostadas, they'll have a bar with a "house party vibe" in the basement too. 

• Tacos El Rey sees Breddos launch a delivery-only restaurant

  

  If you haven't been able to make it to Breddos either pre or post lockdown but still crave their tacos - then this is for you. The Breddos founders, Nud Dudhia and Chris Whitney, have just teamed up with Kitchen Venture to launch Tacos El Rey - a delivery-only tacos restaurant. 

  Currently serving East and West from Bethnal Green and Hammersmith (with Shoreditch on the way), there's a

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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