El Pavo Real New Orleans

What’s Tuesday like at a Mexican restaurant without a taco Tuesday special?

At @elpavorealnola it’s just low-key family-style vibes with distinctive Mexican food that has me coming back any day of the week.

This was last Tuesday at the restaurant, and plenty of people were having the regular menu tacos. We went a different direction with the seafood cocktail, coconut shrimp that gives me a subtle Mexican-Indian flex, black bean soup (pretty and still just five dollars), and the crab meat and avocado quesadillas with a crispy outer shell of cheese.

Look for blackboard specials like these mushroom molotes (first photo), crisp masa empanada shapes with a creamy filling.

And I really like the tequila and beet cocktail.

Popcorn to start, of course.

It’s one idea from this week’s column on restaurants you should check out aronnd town, both new and not-so-new.

Link in my bio has the full read

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