THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Mexique

THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Mexique Restaurant Review:

Chef and co-owner Carlos Gaytan is doing something different at Mexique, and it turns heads for good reason. French-trained and Mexico-born, he’s combining the two cooking styles with eye-popping results. The setting is simple and unadorned, but the food is anything but. If you can, begin with the innovative sopes trio of chimichurri-soused escargots, shrimp Provençal with creamy avocado mousse, and xico mole-accented plantains and coconut. Some entrées follow the straight and narrow; we find the cochinita pibil-stuffed pork tenderloin with orange habanero salsa more interesting. Treat that sweet tooth to something unusual, perhaps avocado pastry cream with strawberry compote in crisp phyllo.