Evelia's Tamales
Mexican restaurant · East Elmhurst ·
Tamales are the specialty, served with diverse fillings and flavorful atole.
Tamales are the specialty, served with diverse fillings and flavorful atole.
"For two decades, Evelia Coyotzi has sold tamales on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens. She opened a storefront in East Elmhurst last year with menudo, barbacoa, and more. Tamales are still the star. They cost $1.50 each and come with a range of fillings, like pork, cheese, pineapple, and raisin. Oaxaqueños, wrapped in banana leaves, are sold with chicharron and bone-in pork rib for $3." - Luke Fortney
"A Jackson Heights favorite that recently expanded to the High Line, Evelia’s Tamales will be serving tamales and tacos at MoMA PS1’s Warm Up series through August 25." - Emma Orlow
"At her new East Elmhurst shop, Evelia Coyotzi’s tamales are as spectacular as ever: the coarse masa is gently fragrant of maize and delivers calibrated doses of powerful flavors, with adobo pork that pops with warming spices, chicharron that bursts with slippery skin and tart salsa verde, and mole that tastes like the cooling embers of a magical fire made from chocolate and nuts." - Ryan Sutton
"After selling some of the city’s best tamales from a street cart for two decades, Evelia Coyotzi now runs a permanent outpost on Northern Boulevard serving tortas, very good tacos, and nourishing Mexican breakfast platters." - Ryan Sutton
"After years selling tamales and atole from the corner of Junction Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Evelia Coyotzi opened a standalone restaurant in East Elmhurst to expand her menu to menudo, weekend barbacoa, and other dishes that weren’t practical from a cart. The tamales remain the star—sold at $1.50 each, they’re some of the absolute best in the city—and her story includes frequent fines and arrests as she’s long rallied in support of street vendors." - Eater Staff
