Hands down to this business, the best part it's super close to my home so we can basically go…read morewhenever we feel like! Quesadillas without tortilla? Awesome, their best invention, if you wanna call it that way, although I believe it probably has been done before. The tlayudas & tacos with chorizo, costilla or arrachera are the best, and for me, who loves atole, the one they sell its delicious!! How we found this place? Really good friends live a few meters away and were taking care of our dog, we were waiting, and waiting and waiting, til we got hungry and thought why not? it looks clean, smells amazing and they have atole!

Mustekala is a pleasant restaurant located in the San Felipe neighborhood of Oaxaca. It had been on…read moreour list for some time and we were not disappointed. The restaurant has both indoor and outdoor seating. We chose outdoor. Indoors has about 10 tables of varying size (we did not explore the inside). Outside is a very large area mostly dedicated to children activities. We saw a number of shaded/tented areas with a large number of tables. Since it was mid afternoon, we decided to have a late lunch rather than a dinner. My wife had Baja style fish tacos (3) and I ordered the Rib eye tacos (4). Both were excellent, but the Baja style won. Easily a 5, while the Rib eyes were 4.5. We don't often see Baja style tacos here. We also had a Dorado ceviche. Ceviche was very good as well. It included black olives, but they were easy to remove and did not overpower the fish. A basket of breads and tostadas with cranberry butter, caramelized and pickled onions, rounded it all out. They have a nice selection of mescal based cocktails and a standard list of tried and trues. They also have a modest selection of wines. Service was professional. Covid precautions were in place. If we could change anything, we would suggest an updated cocktail selection and a scaled back menu. We are looking forward to going back for dinner and more tacos.

As we walked in, a patron who was leaving gave us the thumbs up and said "order everything" and so…read morewe did. Balthazar was our attentive server this evening. I think I had the best tortilla soup of my life here, cooked in a clay pot that's likely been stewing for years and that I'll never be able to recreate at home. Also, delighted to find huitlacoche quesadillas on the menu. These are the types of places that keep me coming back to Mexico.

What a find! We wanted to try chapulines(grasshoppers) but the mole negro con pollo was so tasty!…read moreEverything was amazing. The tortilla soup didn't taste like we expected (as dumb Americans) but it was delicious! We will return!