"This Mexico City-style spot in Montrose is best known for its lively brunches, usually replete with cocktails and mariachis. The colorful restaurant, filled with floor-to-ceiling illustrated murals, also serves a fantastic lunch and dinner menu nearly every day of the week, featuring some of Mexico City’s greatest hits. You can dive into crispy chicken flautas with salsa verde and earthy and nutty fried huitlacoche quesadillas. We can’t get enough of the empanadas de ate con queso for dessert. Those little guava and cheese pastries are so fluffy, rich, and sweet—imagine if a funnel cake and cream cheese danish had a little guava baby, and then topped it with powdered sugar. We’ll have another one, and some café de olla, please. And if you want to extend your Cuchara experience, cross the street and visit their sister restaurant Cucharita, an all-day-breakfast café." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene
