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La Morada
A table worth the trip · New York, United States
4.6★Rating
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The experience
One plain purple room with about ten tables on Willis Avenue in Mott Haven, opened in 2009 by the Saavedra-Mendez family from Oaxaca with Natalia Mendez cooking. Its reason for existing is mole: seven of them, including the rare mole blanco built from chicken broth, garlic, onion, chiles and four kinds of nuts, alongside Oaxaqueño, poblano and negro, each served over chicken, pork or a chile relleno. Meatballs stuffed with olives, al pastor tacos on house tortillas and vegan enchiladas fill out the menu, and the room doubles as an immigrant-rights organising space. Closed Sundays.
Seven Oaxacan moles, one of them a white mole almost nobody else makes, from the family that turned a Bronx dining room into an immigrant-rights hub.
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Where it is
New York, United States · Mott Haven, The Bronx. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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