porkwah Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 going to DF / oaxaca for a week or so. any recs? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
guajolote Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 DF -La Opera. it's right by the palacio de bellas artes. At lunch there's a lot of workers from the financial district, so dress up a little. I remember having chicken livers in a pasilla chile and garlic sauce. Oaxaca - take a cab to the rug weaving town of teotitlan de valle and go to Tlamanalli, a small restaurant run by a family of Zapotec sisters. i think their father is a weaver. they're only open for lunch. they only offer a menu del dia. i remember having a mole coloradito (red mole w/ chicken, the chickens come from the back yard), squash blossom soup, and a sorbet of 'fruta azteca', whatever that is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
porkwah Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 We ate at Tlamanalli when we were there in February. I think of this as one of my favorite restaurant meals ever. Had some sort of chicken stew with a spice I hadn't had before (Hierba Santa? kind of minty). We might just chill in teotitlan del valle for a day or two and get some rugs, and we really want to go back to this place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
guajolote Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 it was also one of my favorite. so much so that i went back twice the same week. are you flying between DF and oaxaca or driving? if you're driving las mananitas in cuernavaca is worth a stop too. there is another place in oaxaca, north of town and the pan-american highway where the specialize in grilled meats. they bring you out a little grill full of different cuts of meat, onions, peppers, and queso de oaxaca. it was excellent. much more of a place for locals than tourists. it may not be there anymore because the place had a thatch roof Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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