El Sol y La Luna ★ 3.9
El Sol y La Luna on Pino Suarez is the Centro wood-fired pizza room with handmade pasta, a long-running Italian table at a quiet end of Cinco de Mayo.
Signature: Wood-fired pizza, Handmade pasta
El Asador Vasco is a spanish-basque grill restaurant in Centro Historico, Oaxaca.
El Asador Vasco on the Zocalo's upper Portal de Flores is Oaxaca's long-running Spanish-Basque grill with a balcony table over the plaza for nights out.
Signature dishes: Chuleton, Paella, Bacalao al pil-pil
Address: Portal de Flores 10 A, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca
El Sol y La Luna on Pino Suarez is the Centro wood-fired pizza room with handmade pasta, a long-running Italian table at a quiet end of Cinco de Mayo.
Signature: Wood-fired pizza, Handmade pasta
Mezcalogia on Garcia Vigil is the Casa Cortes family's El Jolgorio mezcaleria with a strong kitchen of Oaxacan plates and a 200-bottle mezcal cocktail bar.
Signature: Tlayuda, Tetelas, Mezcal cocktails
El Destilado on Cinco de Mayo runs share-plate a la carte beyond the tasting menu, with Mexican sake, natural wine and an in-house mezcal pairing flight.
Signature: A la carte share plates, Mezcal pairing
Zandunga on Garcia Vigil runs Tehuantepec-isthmus food in a corner-room courtyard, with garnachas and banana-leaf tamales since 2002 on the Andador strip.
Signature: Garnachas istmenas, Tamales tehuanos
El Sol y La Luna on Pino Suarez is the Centro wood-fired pizza room with handmade pasta, a long-running Italian table at a quiet end of Cinco de Mayo.
Signature: Wood-fired pizza, Handmade pasta
Mezcalogia on Garcia Vigil is the Casa Cortes family's El Jolgorio mezcaleria with a strong kitchen of Oaxacan plates and a 200-bottle mezcal cocktail bar.
Signature: Tlayuda, Tetelas, Mezcal cocktails
El Destilado on Cinco de Mayo runs share-plate a la carte beyond the tasting menu, with Mexican sake, natural wine and an in-house mezcal pairing flight.
Signature: A la carte share plates, Mezcal pairing
Itanoni on Belisario Dominguez is Amado Ramirez Leyva and Gabriela Fernandez Orantes's criollo-corn tortilleria since 2001, where rainbow maize lands.
Signature: Memelas, Tetelas, Tlayudas
Zandunga on Garcia Vigil runs Tehuantepec-isthmus food in a corner-room courtyard, with garnachas and banana-leaf tamales since 2002 on the Andador strip.
Signature: Garnachas istmenas, Tamales tehuanos
La Teca in Reforma is Deyanira Aquino Pineda's 30-year Istmo institution, a five-table room where banana-leaf tamales and garnachas arrive on enamel plates.
Signature: Garnachas istmenas, Tamales de mole tehuano