Cocina Consuelo
Mexican restaurant · Hamilton Heights
130 Hamilton Pl, New York, NY 10031
Highlights
Masa pancakes, birria, mole, and spontaneous piano music
Masa pancakes, birria, mole, and spontaneous piano music
"I feel like I’m hanging out in a friend’s kitchen at this blue storefront in Hamilton Heights, where Garcia and Rodriguez refuse to rush diners and where homemade, crisped tortillas impressed with paper-thin hoja santa cradle just-set fried eggs; the massive pancake — adapted to be gluten-free with extra corn flour for a sweet, corn-forward lift — is a communal star, dripping honey butter and glistening like a glazed donut." - ByBon Appétit Staff & Contributors
"This little walk-in-only restaurant at 143rd grew out of a pandemic supper club run by couple Karina Garcia and Lalo Rodriguez. At night, their mostly Mexican meals still feel like dinner parties. Someone might spontaneously decide to play an upright piano after more than a few glasses of wine from Baja California. People sit at a handful of tables or at the bar, swiping earthy-sweet tortillas through the last bits of birria and marrow on the halved bones in front of them. As great as dinner is though, we love breakfast even more, when you can pair some eggs and fried tortillas with a refreshing café de olla or pineapple espresso. Get a fluffy, fruit-topped masa pancake for the table." - the curious uptowner, sonal shah
"Painted an unmissable, electric Frida Kahlo-blue, this little restaurant in Hamilton Heights grew out of a pandemic supper club run by couple Karina Garcia and Lalo Rodriguez. At night, it still feels like a dinner party, with spontaneous music from an upright piano, laughter, and the smells of great food cooking. Stop by with a date for an evening of fresh, earthy-sweet tortillas to go with your savory, birria-topped bone marrow, or a glass of Mexican wine with a juicy cornish hen stuffed with grains and quelites. We love breakfast here even more, when you can pair some eggs and fried tortillas with a refreshing café de olla or pineapple espresso." - willa moore, bryan kim, will hartman, neha talreja, carlo mantuano, sonal shah
"At Cocina Consuelo in Hamilton Heights, you’ll feast on brunchy Mexican food—a torta stacked with juicy pork, earthy tortillas folded over stewed-down hibiscus flowers and held together with stretchy oaxaca cheese—all in a pleasant blue-and-yellow room with a piano in one corner. The food (and cocktails) are so good, and the couple that runs this place are so welcoming, that you might consider coming back for dinner." - willa moore, bryan kim, molly fitzpatrick, will hartman, sonal shah
"Happy coincidences abound in NYC. Maybe you found a loaded subway card or ran into that now-single ex-coworker. But if life has been feeling a little less serendipitous lately, head to Cocina Consuelo. The Hamilton Heights restaurant grew out of a Dominican and Mexican couple’s pandemic supper club, and it feels DIY in the best of ways. (You might even leave with a recommendation for a great local daycare or hear a performance from a jazz saxophonist who used to jam with Duke Ellington.) But the difference between Cocina Consuelo and a regular old apartment party is that the food and drinks—pineapple espresso and fluffy masa pancakes for brunch, birria-topped bone marrow and Mexican wine at dinner—are far more serious." - sonal shah, bryan kim, willa moore, will hartman, molly fitzpatrick, willa moore, molly fitzpatrick, sonal shah, will hartman, willa moore, bryan kim, will hartman, bryan kim, sonal shah, willa moore, sonal shah, will hartman, neha talreja, neha talreja, sonal shah
