Profile Mexican Restaurant Zocalo Midtown's sexiest cantina spices things up with sizzling chiles, top-shelf tequilas. In spite of some concessions to modern tastes, the style of cooking, the use of chiles and most of the ingredients here are authentic.
Meals arrive on thick wooden boards, or in the pocked volcanic rock of a molcajete.
Drinks come in thick, irregular blue-rimmed glasses. Weathered photographs of cantinas hang about like storied relations. That's not the wine list. Some nights Zocalo can be quite busy. Not to worry, the front bar makes for a great hangout, looking out onto the always interesting Midtown foot- and street traffic.