LA VECINDAD®
Mexican restaurant · Winchester ·
Mexican restaurant with colorful decor, lively atmosphere, and homestyle cooking
Mexican restaurant with colorful decor, lively atmosphere, and homestyle cooking
"Mexico City-style tacos await at La Vecindad or “the neighborhood.” The tacos campechanos — a popular street food in Mexico City — are served with steak, homemade longaniza, nopales, grilled onions, and potatoes. Most tacos are under $6 and range from grilled fish, shrimp, vegetable, carne asada, and cochinita pibil to rolled tacos. More unique renditions include the Costa Azul taco with bacon-wrapped shrimp, red cabbage, avocado, chipotle aioli, and queso fresco. Located on 5th, this taqueria is a popular destination come night time, since diners like coming here to pregame with tacos and cocktails like margaritas and micheladas." - Roxana Becerril
"This Mexican restaurant feels like a Mexico City block party come to life and dropped into the Hisotric Commercial Center. Beneath a painted sky ceiling and vibrant papel picado paper banners, order platters of chorizo, carnitas, and cabeza tacos. Wednesdays mean all-you-can-eat asada, pastor-pineapple, chorizo, chicken, cabeza, or carnitas tacos for $24.99." - Janna Karel
"Located in the Historic Commercial Center, La Vecindad — Spanish for neighborhood — feels like stepping into a block party. Beneath a sky mural on the ceiling, twinkling string lights, and colorful papel picado paper banners, this restaurant serves up a veritable fiesta of food — best served in ample portions to large groups. Standouts include a platter of 50 street tacos with cilantro and diced onions, molcajete enchilados that sizzle on hot stone, and an impossibly stacked torta on telera bread with refried beans, tomato, onions, avocado, crispy bacon, ham, chicken, sausage, chorizo, beef, eggs, cheese." - Janna Karel
"A visit to La Vecindad is transportative — with flavors, sights, and music meant to evoke a neighborhood restaurant in Mexico. Owners Raúl Martínez and Vanessa Barreat started their restaurant at a swap meet, serving a concise menu of comfort food before opening a brick-and-mortar that cooks up home-style tacos, chilaquiles, and enchiladas. The menudo is a standout: the deeply flavored menudo (tripe stew) with spicy chili pepper broth, generous additions of dried spices, and onions and herbs. It comes with handmade corn tortillas and is best ordered alongside a cinnamon-spiced café de olla coffee." - Janna Karel
"Brightly painted walls with colorful papel picado draped from the ceiling makes you feel like you’re in a Mexican cantina. The food confirms it. With anytime breakfast specials, a long list of tortas, overstuffed burritos and enchiladas drenched in tasty sauces, you’re in for a treat. La Vecindad was even featured on the Cooking Channel’s Food Paradise with a focus on their enormous super torta cubana (free if finished in 23 minutes)." - Ryan Slattery