Puebla

The Best Torta in New York?

Pix from La Superior

This week's Counter Culture covers La Superior, a Williamsburger Mexican restaurant that adapts a pan-national menu for New York tastes, a feat we dub "Goth-Mex," short for "Gothamite-Mexican." Despite a general dearth of chiles, the food is very Mexican, expertly juggling cacti, masa, and bean ... More >>

Mexico Invades Italy in the Bronx's Belmont

This week's Counter Culture covers La Superior, a Williamsburger Mexican restaurant that adapts a pan-national menu for New York tastes, a feat we dub "Goth-Mex," short for "Gothamite-Mexican." Despite a general dearth of chiles, the food is very Mexican, expertly juggling cacti, masa, and bean ... More >>

Who Stole the Chiles?

A Brooklyn Institution Now Resurfaces on Houston Street

Holy Pozole!

Obscurely located Mexican links Red Hook and Guerrero

Plotzing for Masa (Not Matzo)

Red Hook soccer matches induce foodie hysteria

How Green Was My Mole?

A New Mexican café in Williamsburg excels at Pre-Columbian fare

Sunset Park Mexican: Where to Eat when the Ball Fields are Empty

A New Mexican café in Williamsburg excels at Pre-Columbian fare

Part 1: Mexico City or Bust

The Zapatistas Hit the Road on a March for Indigenous Rights

Rebel Dignity

Dispatches From the Zapatista Trek to Mexico City

A Link in the Chain

Bound for The Bronx, A Mexican Teenager Says Farewell to His Family and Culture

Deadly Game

Crazed Coyotes, Car Crashes, Cocaine Deals: One Mexican’s Illegal Journey Into the United States

Toil and Temptation

From the Car Wash to the Chicano Club, a Mexican Teenager Learns to Survive in the Bronx

Letters

From the Car Wash to the Chicano Club, a Mexican Teenager Learns to Survive in the Bronx

Dining Out on Cheap Labor

Worker Slam-Down at Brooklyn Plant

Global Witness

Labor Presents Its Case to WEF

Doner Party

Labor Presents Its Case to WEF

Dutch Tacos

Labor Presents Its Case to WEF

From Guerrero

In Harlem, Mole Makes the Meal

Hometown Mole

Former delis bring Mexican country cooking to Clinton

Metalheads

Fill your shoe with beef tongue in East Harlem Mexican

My Lovely Lady 'Rita

The story of Cinco de Mayo and the Maligned Margarita

All Together Now

Our realtor said she was a vegetarian—everyone moved from park slope

Gangbanger as 'Terrorist'

A 9/11 anti-terror law turns out to be handy against small-time hoods

That New-Car Smell

Selling autos the same way on both sides of the border

Eating Kids at Cabrito

New Carmine cantina reverently replicates Mexican dishes

A Talented Guerreran Cook Climbs Down Off the Awning

Restaurante Taqueria Guerrero near the corner of 39th Street and Fourth Avenue

On the Taco Trail

Our restaurant critic goes hunting on Roosevelt Avenue

¡Ask a Mexican! Is That a Falafel in Your Genes?

And the Mexican government should lighten up

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

Photo by Esparta @ FlickrCelebrate the Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla with these Cinco de Mayo fiestas: Elizabeth in Nolita is hosting a Garden Party tonight from 5-7 pm featuring 50-cent shots of Tanteo tequila, 50-cent pulled pork, roasted chicken, grilled steak and veggie tacos, 50-cent ... More >>

Our Ten Best--Tacos

Rough-hewn corn tortillas constitute our connection with Mexico's remote past, when women slaked tiny ears of corn with lye procured from blackened seashells to make masa. To put in those tortillas, they made chile-rich sauces, while their husbands sojourned in search of wild boar, crunchy insects, ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Burritos in Space

And other signs of the know-nothing apocalypse

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Pueblan Pata Cemita from La Fiesta in the Bronx

​ ​The humongous cemita from La Fiesta in Mott Haven is surely one of the world's great gutbombs. Cemitas are the signature sandwiches of Puebla in southern Mexico, the state from which many New York immigrants come. The hubcab-size round sandwich is made with a special roll that often ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: Fish Tacos From Pinche Taqueria and Baja Fresh

Pinche's fish taco features a surfeit of crema and limes.​ Today is Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the Mexican army's victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. And although the holiday is celebrated predominately in Puebla (and, of course throughout the United States) ... More >>

Mexico-on-the-Hudson

Nueva York is more Mexican than ever—so where's the great food?

Eating Goat Eyeball Tacos in Staten Island

​The eyeball-popping parking lot mural was a harbinger of what was to follow. It was a gothic conclusion to a very gothic day. It started out with a trip on the Staten Island Ferry to New Brighton, to a neighborhood overlooking New York's Upper Bay that was once the site of a Revolutionary Wa ... More >>

Chicken Enchiladas With Guajillo Chile Sauce: Downtown Bakery vs. Puebla Mexican Food in the East Village

​Downtown Bakery on the left, Puebla Mexican Food on the right! Nearly two decades ago, as the first big wave of southern Mexican immigration was making itself felt in NYC, two old and not particularly good Italian bakeries on First Avenue in the East Village were transformed into Mexican-It ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Mexican Restaurants in NYC

​The tortilla soup at La Esquina is indeed exceptional, but will that be enough to catapult the café into our top 10? Our catalog of Mexican restaurants has increased tenfold in the last 15 years, offering several regional cuisines, with two southern states most prominent: Puebla and ... More >>

Our 10 Best Mexican Restaurants in NYC

​The inviting dining room of Tortilleria Nixtamal in Corona, Queens. Mexican cooking has been coming of age in the city lately, and even champions of such regional variations as Cal-Mex now have lots to be thankful for. We have our upscale places, too, showcasing the gastronomic stylings of ... More >>

Stealing Immigrants' Wages in New York

Fleecing the immigrants is a big, safe business in New York

Tacos Arabes: The Inside Story

​A taco arabes from the El Idolo truck, seen by the greenish glow of the street lamp. "Arab's Tacos" were invented in the city of Puebla in the 1930s, the result of Lebanese businesspeople who set up shop selling a lamb-based version of schwarma roasted on a vertical rotating spit using charc ... More >>

In Defense of Brooklyn — As If It Needed Defending

​Brooklyn has - and has always had - a treasure trove of undeniable culinary delights, ever since the first Canarsie Indian sat cracking oyster shells on the lip of Jamaica Bay. It's where Italian-American cuisine was invented, with its glorious meatballs, Sunday gravy, and hero sandwiches, an ... More >>

Cholulita Sells Smut Under the J Tracks

Corn smut, that is. A Bed-Stuy bodega's authentic Pueblan food.

Pix From Cholulita Bella Deli in Brooklyn

​The well-stuffed carne enchilada cemita -- reeking of papalo leaves -- at Cholulita Deli. This week, Counter Culture slides into Cholulita Bella Deli, under the J and M tracks on the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. The food is fabulous, and cheap, too, mostly representing an unreconstructe ... More >>

No. 18: Cemita Milanesa Res at Tulcingo del Valle

​A cemita from Tulcingo del Valle is one hell of a meal. Cemitas are the signature sandwiches of Puebla, a region of Mexico south and east of the capital. These sandwiches are made on round seeded rolls traditionally made with cactus pulp.

Tacos Morelos Truck Brings Tacos Placeros to Williamsburg. Double Yum!

​Now you don't have to go to East Elmhurst to enjoy a taco placeros, just take the L to the Bedford stop. Four years ago on an extreme taco run from Corona to Woodside on Roosevelt Avenue - intent on sampling every at least two tacos from every store, truck, and cart - my gang and I stumbled ... More >>

The Cinco de Mayo Charade

Its organizer sits in jail for raping his daughter. And the parade of his sympathizers marches on.

Culinary Report From Cinco de Mayo Street Festival in East Harlem

​Go ahead, take a bite of this delicious chile-soaked pambazo. Cecomex, the community organization that figured largely in this week's Voice cover story, sponsored this year's East Harlem Cinco de Mayo festivities. The street fair filled two city blocks, from Lexington Avenue to Second Aven ... More >>

All This Week: Fork in the Road Cinco de Mayo Coverage

​An Aztec deity visits the Cinco de Mayo festivities in East Harlem on Sunday (click on picture to enlarge). This week, Fork in the Road will be running extra stories in honor of Cinco de Mayo ("Fifth of May"), a principally Mexican-American holiday celebrating the immigrant group's Mexican ... More >>

Five Great Cheap Mexican Dishes To Eat Now

​Don't get the delicious red guajillo chile sauce on your sleeve. It will never wash out. Ever since immigration from southern Mexico began in the 1980s due to prolonged drought, Mexican food around here has been getting better and better, as more fresh ingredients have been imported, and ma ... More >>