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1779 Lexington Ave. New York, NY 10029

212-427-4440 

 

1779 Lexington Ave. New York NY 10029

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  • Mexican
    Daily 9am-4am
    $ $
  • cash
    Delivery, Takeout
    Late Night
  • Accepted, Not Accepted
    No Parking
Description

Named after the Umbrian saint who loved birds and other small animals, this taquería might be East Harlem's best. You can't go wrong with the antojitos: the potato filled flautas, for example, which come heaped with greenery and crumbled cheese, or the sublime chilaquiles with green sauce-a toss of yesterday's tortilla chips with scrambled eggs. The bigger feeds keep pace, including the quarter-chicken lounging in the pumpkin seed sauce called pipian, and cemitas, big round sandwiches on seeded rolls that constitute a signature of Pueblan cooking.








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    LBJ was a devotee of an East Austin joint called Cisco's, which had a back room where pols would hang out over a breakfast of migas, a Tex-Mex staple of eggs scrambled with fried tortilla chips and salsa. Unfortunately, migas are rare in these parts, but I'm sure the banana-nosed president wouldn't mind if we substituted the chilaquiles at San Francisco De Asis: freshly fried tortilla chips tossed with green or red chile sauce, with a couple of fried eggs dumped on top, pouring their golden... More »

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    The glass refrigerator case glows mad bright in the front room, lit by a mercury-vapor bulb that makes the lined-up soft drinks phosphoresce, from the painfully orange Fanta to the grass-green, urine-yellow, and candy-apple-red Jarritos,... More »

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