Dolores

A 2025 arrival on Tompkins Avenue that nails being a restaurant and a bar at once. The food runs from Mexico City-style small plates to Tex-Mex comfort, and the best way to eat it is in one of the dark green booths, with the bar loud behind you.

Order the guacamole with chips that look fresh from the fryer, the shrimp, squid and octopus aguachile, the refried beans so cheesy they could pass for queso, and a short rib asada taco on a thin flour tortilla — one each. To drink: a strawberry michelada, a margarita, or the Mata Dolores frozen.