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After doing a tour of duty of the city’s haute Mexican joints (Dos Caminos, Rosa Mexicano, Papatzul), Mexico City native Felipe Mendez has dropped anchor in Williamsburg with this “strictly Mexico” restaurant. “Everyone else has the same thing—mole, fajitas—which is not really Mexican,” he says. His trump cards: esquites (espazote-flavored roasted corn), tacos de rajas (with roasted poblano pepper, Mexican cream and onions) and salpicon (shredded flank steak). Save for the fish and meat, Mendez imports majority of his ingredients from Mexico, and the restaurant makes its own aguas frescas beverages, which come in varieties like watermelon, cantaloupe and prickly pear, depending on the season.

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