MAIZ Mexican Food

best Mexican in Newtown, and you can't change my mind. highly recommend an alcohol-free marg to get ya started!! we started off with a hug in a mug Esquites $10, slow-cooked corn in epazote broth, chili mayonnaise, cheese, piquin chili & lime. punchy, zesty yet comforting all in one. for a little side we nabbed the Papas a la Diabla $14, fried chat potatoes, served with fermented chillies sauce, jocoque & dill. soft and filling! we shared a couple Taquito Al Pastor $10 each, char pork tenderloin "al pastor", with fresh tortillas, tepache glaze, morita & pineapple salsa. that pineapple salsa had a kick but was full of flavour. we also shared the Tostada de Callo y Camarón $16 each, a scallop & prawn tostada, with fennel, cucumber, jalapeño, avocado, coriander & lime dressing which was a great refreshing bite. another cold dish, the Aguachile de Temporada $26 with cured market fish, basil and chilli verde aguachile, cucumber & watermelon was lovely to cleanse the palate with its fresh and bright profile. for mains, we had to order the Volcan de Pulpo $38. A Grilled Fremantle octopus served on a crispy tostada, with pasilla chilli adobo, Oaxaca cheese, char pineapple salsa, avocado purée, cherry tomatoes & Octopus consomé on the side. Just wow, this dish was mind-blowingly satisfying, and that consome was just unreal in flavour. recommend to drink a sip after each bite of the octopus! a sweet treat was definitely needed, we ordered the Tamal $18, sweet corn tamal, seasonal fruit, vanilla bean Chantilly which was not only unique but delicate and warm. you should absolutely order this one!

Definitely a top spot for me in this area! Whilst I can’t speak on the authenticity of the place I went with some Mexican friends and they enjoyed it plenty! The food is spicy so be careful if you can’t handle spice but it was amazing! Atmosphere was very nice as well! However I will say that the bathrooms are a little janky, but they all function so I can’t complain! I also highly recommend the horchata for a drink because it was so good it’s got me wanting to go back just to get another sip!

Delicious food — every dish bursts with flavor; dining here is truly an experience. The place is cozy, and the staff are very friendly. It was great to explore traditional Mexican food and I really wasn’t sure what to expect, but flavours were heavenly. volcan de pulpo with octopus - this was also perfect to share. The octopus was incredibly tender, but the small unassuming cup of consome was the star - slightly spicy yet refreshing with every little sip.

My photos don’t do the food justice, it was hands down one of the best food experiences I’ve ever had. It was great to explore traditional Mexican food and I really wasn’t sure what to expect, but flavours were heavenly. We ordered: 2 x prawn and scallop tostadas - they’re quite a generous size as a starter for each person. 1 x totopos to share - great if you like guacamole plus a nice kick of grilled onions 1 x volcan de pulpo with octopus - this was also perfect to share. The octopus was incredibly tender, but the small unassuming cup of consome was the star - slightly spicy yet refreshing with every little sip. As a non-drinker, I also loved the Horchata drink - I could down a litre of that easily and still want more. Great vibes for a Saturday night. Wonderful service, everyone was super lovely and took the time to give us recos. Really can’t wait to come back and try more from the menu.

We had lunch here The food is not Tex mex, it is very authentic Mexican food. I highly recommend this place. They also really put effort into their drinks menu - we had a coconut and panda margarita and two horchatas (simply amazing). We got the chicken mole - it was spectacular however there was an issue with the dish. Sadly we weren’t able to finish it. But props to the handling by the staff of this. I was so impressed by the food I recommended it to family and decided they deserved a review

LOVED THIS!! we tried one of the set menus and it was the perfect amount of food and a great intro to the menu for us as we hadn’t been before and were unsure what to order. Great drinks and we had a lovely waitress also

We were pleasantly surprised with the food here. We’ve had authentic Mexican before and we didn’t really like it - we expected to not like this place either but we thought we’d give it a go. We actually ended up enjoying the food! The service was also good. The only thing I can fault them on is that I left feeling quite sick because of how dry the food is (due to everything having corn chips as a base) I feel they should incorporate some softer foods, although I guess that wouldn’t be very Mexican.

Not sure what upside-down realm iteration of this place I went to but a very different experience to what was expected. $70pp set menu where the only mildly enjoyable element was a soup in a huskee cup…. But you can’t keep the cup. Cevicé tostada was inedible - and I’ll eat some awkward stuff. Just so fishy and sort of par-cooked and confusing with the appearance of boiled chicken. Maybe it was old fish so they figured they should heat it up to be safe? Duck for the main was as if it was chucked in the slow cooker….. alone…. For hours…. Then covered In a grease soaked corn pancake. Great looking mole sauce that tasted of nothing whatsoever. A woman who walked past pointed at the restaurant and said ‘crazy good authentic Mexican’….. and it all hurt even more. I couldn’t make the maths work on how this little spread was charged at $140 for two… unless the chips and guac were $98 (also quite good to be fair) Oh and please nobody ask me about the horchata icy pole. It’s a nice spot to sit and the service was fine but I can’t get the smell of old fish out of my hands so it’s a thumbs down.