El Destilado ★ 4.5
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
Mezcalogia (kitchen) is a mezcaleria with food restaurant in Centro Historico, Oaxaca.
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 dishes: Tlayuda, Tetelas, Mezcal cocktails
Address: C. de Manuel Garcia Vigil 509, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca
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
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
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
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