5 of Brooklyn’s Best Mexican Restaurants, Just In Time for Cinco de Mayo!
Zona Rosa: If you’re looking for top notch Mexican food in Williamsburg, the only restaurant that rivals Mesa Coyoacan (in our estimation) is it’s year-old sibling, Zona Rosa, built around a converted Spartan trailer. All of the tortillas and salsas are made in house, but the multi-tiered restaurant is more than just a tricked-out taqueria. We love the fortifying pozole, the tender tamales and the gleefully gloppy Torta Ahogada; a braised berkshire pork-stuffed sandwich drowned in salsa.
571 Lorimer St., (917) 324-7423
La Slowteria: Sourcing locally may have been easier for Hugo Orozco when his restaurant was situated along the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Mexican resort town of Tulum, but he’s nonetheless done an admirable job in urban Carroll Gardens. And sitting in his lush backyard with a cold Michelada (made with hand-squeezed tomato juice), and a sizzling tureen of El Cavo (seafood soup prepared tableside with a lava rock) is as close as it gets to paradise around these parts.
548 Court St., (718) 858-2222