No idea how authentic it is, I'm just another tourist, but it's really good. Everything seems high quality and well prepared and nicely presented. Just the right balance between a little fancy but not high end or too touristy. Just well made food with good ingredients and a few unique touches. We had five dishes and all of them were five star, including the simple but really tasty sauces they brought out. Can recommend chilaquiles with carnitas shredded pork.
It was a good antidote to the kind of touristy resort food I've had before. Everything here is so flavorful. The chilaquiles were messy, with lots of fresh herbal green stuff on top, mixed with the salty cheese and pulled pork on bottom. Sort of like if you mixed nachos with vietnamese food. I had the fatality dessert which is a really good coffee ice cream with chocolate covered coffee beans mixed in.
The main drag is very touristy, but this is on a side street. The street atmosphere is not sketchy or anything, but it seemed surprising to find a place with such high quality food here. There's people constantly coming and going up the little staircase to a bar/apartments upstairs. We got visits from random people's dogs passing by (and a cat). The interior is a bit cramped, the table by the entrance was best, it's not as hot there.
My only complaint is that near the end of the meal they brought out bucket of burning citronella (or something like that, I assume this was to keep away mosquitoes). There was no mosquito problem while we were eating, and it was like someone started a campfire four feet from our table. Luckily we were done and waiting on the check at that point.
Otherwise no complaints, and the service was pretty good, they spoke English well and got the food out pretty quick, though there was a little delay for dessert. read more