"Camarones en Salsa Chipotle are shrimp cooked in a fiery chipotle pepper sauce. On the side, you have a choice of bread, tortillas, or crackers."
Michael Stern
"Regarded as a remedy for hangovers, menudo is available on Saturdays and Sundays only."
Cliff Strutz
"There are beers, wines, and drinks galore, but we chose to drink Topo Chico, which is Mexican club soda."
Michael Stern
"If you love coconut and chocolate, here is La Mexicana's vision of heaven. It's kind of like the ultimate Mounds Bar."
Michael Stern
"Chile Con Queso: chilies and cheese, here shown decorated with a spill of jalapeno pepper chips to heat it up. It's a big balance of dairy-smoothness and capsicum heat."
Michael Stern
"Here's how dinner begins: a basket of fragile tortilla chips, just barely salted, accompanied by hot red sauce and hotter green sauce."
Michael Stern
"A close view of a fish taco shows the quality of the mahi mahi of which it's made. This is no cloddish fried cod. It is elegant fish; and the whole package is zesty and bright-flavored."
Michael Stern
"The Fish Taco platter: three of them are accompanied by fiesta rice and refried black beans."
Michael Stern
"We find these simple, heart-shaped cinnamon-sugar cookies impossible to stop eating. We bought a bag full after dinner, and managed to take this photo of the last two remaining in our hotel room that night. After the shutter snapped, they were gone."
Michael Stern
"Among the many amazing bakery items available at the front counter is this chocolate cake topped with flan. Rich? Forget about it!"
Michael Stern
"The Mexican scrambled eggs dish known as migas is especially good at La Mexicana."
Cliff Strutz
"La Mexicana is a festive place; the decor is abetted by south-of-the-border party music."
Michael Stern
"La Mexicana first opened as a food market in 1968. The Trevino family turned it into a full-service restaurant in 1982; and it has since become a culinary destination for Houstonians in the know."
Michael Stern
Sometimes we feel sorry for our friend Jim Rains. He's got a beautiful wife, a great job, and a bucolic home; but he's a Texan and he lives in Connecticut. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Jim grew up eating excellent Mexican food whenever he wanted it. And in our neighborhood – virtually the entire northeast – it scarcely exists. Well, Jim's loss was our gain, at least on a recent trip to Houston, where he highly recommended we stop into a restaurant called La Mexicana. "It's nothing fancy," he warned. "It's plain and it's cheap … and it's goo-ood." We had it in our crosshairs as soon as we arrived in the Lone Star State.
