Don't expect the elegant inventions of a place like Ciudad. This is true Mexican home cooking. The owner's sister just moved here from Mexico City to run the kitchen. The ambience, though, doesn't quite rise to the level of homey. Things can really get noisy when the jukebox and the TV are competing in volume.
Service is willing, although most of the servers aren' t very comfortable with English.
Partner Hamid Mollabagher, though, tries hard to be helpful. The restaurant has been very efficient in its early days, when business sometimes has been slow. But it's hard to predict how the staff will react when the place has the clientele the food deserves. The rich sauce, originally from the city of Puebla, smacks of toasted dried chiles, sesame seeds and myriad spices. Plus, of course, that small touch of chocolate that gives the sauce its international notoriety.