- 114 Kenmare Street, Soho
- Taqueria at street level
- Brasserie downstairs via the kitchen
- Dinner only for the brasserie
La Esquina opened in 2005 — the taco counter on the corner, the brasserie one floor below entered through the kitchen, the format that did the speakeasy register before the city had the vocabulary. The downstairs room remains among the most theatrical Mexican dining rooms in the city and the booking pressure has not in any meaningful sense slackened in two decades.
Book the brasserie downstairs for the late seating, enter through the cook line, take the corner banquette. Take the elote, the carne asada, the mezcal flight. The address is the right answer for the dinner that wants Mexican with the speakeasy entry intact.
The dinner through the kitchen.
