Yu Ne Nisa ★ 4.3
Yu Ne Nisa (Land and Water in Zapotec) on Amapolas runs Istmo cooking in a quiet Reforma residential strip, with cocina de autor takes on Tehuano classics.
Signature: Totopos istmenos, Chile relleno de marlin
La Teca is an istmeno (tehuano) restaurant in Reforma, Oaxaca.
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 dishes: Garnachas istmenas, Tamales de mole tehuano
Address: Violetas 200-A, Colonia Reforma, 68050 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca
Yu Ne Nisa (Land and Water in Zapotec) on Amapolas runs Istmo cooking in a quiet Reforma residential strip, with cocina de autor takes on Tehuano classics.
Signature: Totopos istmenos, Chile relleno de marlin
Yu Ne Nisa (Land and Water in Zapotec) on Amapolas runs Istmo cooking in a quiet Reforma residential strip, with cocina de autor takes on Tehuano classics.
Signature: Totopos istmenos, Chile relleno de marlin
Restaurante Catedral one block from the cathedral runs a generous courtyard with live music nightly and a seven-moles platter on the standard menu.
Signature: Seven moles, Chile relleno, Sopa azteca
Las Quince Letras on Abasolo near Santo Domingo is Celia Florian's women-owned mole room since 1992, where the mole negro runs more than thirty ingredients.
Signature: Mole negro, Duo de moles
La Olla on Reforma is Pilar Cabrera's twenty-year converted-house room two blocks from Santo Domingo, the kitchen that built the Casa de los Sabores school.
Signature: Mole oaxaqueno, Chiles rellenos, Sopa de guias
Los Pacos on Abasolo with a rooftop terrace runs seven moles on one tasting board (negro, coloradito, amarillo, verde, chichilo, manchamanteles and rojo).
Signature: Seven moles tasting, Tlayuda
Cabuche near the Zocalo is an inviting Oaxacan room with a deep pulque, mezcal and craft-beer list and a 100-peso two-course comida corrida lunch daily.
Signature: Comida corrida, Mole oaxaqueno, Pulque mezcal flight