Although the decor is similar to most of the city’s other wannabe Mexican restaurants—orange walls, green, red, white and gold flags, earthenware sunbursts—the food at this cozy spot on St. Clair’s Latino strip is deliciously authentic. The menu lists such favourites as guacamole, sizzling fajitas and menudo (not the boy band but a tripe soup topped with onions and oregano). An appetizer of frijoles charros brings a piping hot plate of smoky brown beans and bits of savoury chorizo to be scooped up with tortilla chips. A main dish of ceviche comes in a traditional molcajete, a lava stone mortar; bold, spicy and satisfying, it’s a generous portion of shrimp, squid rings, big New Zealand mussels, tomatoes, fresh sliced chilies and onion, all doused in plenty of lime juice. Daily specials tour the country; from the southern Guerrero province comes wonderful tacos ahogado—a clear, tangy soup floating bits of corn, scented with coriander and served with three crispy cigar-rolled tacos for dipping. The drinks list presents a rare offering: Michelada, a combo of beer, lime, Tabasco and a mysterious “English sauce.” Friendly servers are well versed in the cuisine.