{"id":174,"date":"2008-05-03T02:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/tequila-kitchen-mexican-restaurant-in-downtown-vancouver"},"modified":"2008-05-03T17:59:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T01:59:23","slug":"tequila-kitchen-mexican-restaurant-in-downtown-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/tequila-kitchen-mexican-restaurant-in-downtown-vancouver","title":{"rendered":"Tequila Kitchen (Mexican Restaurant in Downtown Vancouver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tequila Kitchen<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tequilakitchen.ca\/\">web site<\/a>, 1043 Mainland St. Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone: 604-681-2120) is a new restaurant in the Yaletown neighborhood of downtown Vancouver, offering authentic and fresh Mexican cuisine in a simple and almost austere atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The minimalistic decor evokes some great restaurants and hotels I experienced while visiting the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, which catered mainly to Mexicans on vacation rather than American tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Hollis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martiniboys.com\/Vancouver\/Tequila-Kitchen-review.html\">writes<\/a>, &#8220;Tequila Kitchen encourages diners to taste the soul food of Mexico&#8221;, and I agree &#8211; the fresh guocamole, home-made salsa, and corn tortillas stuffed with scrumptious goodness brought me back to the streets of the towns I visited in Mexico. CityFood Magazine has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityfood.com\/EN\/previews\/tequila_kitchen_-_a_preview\/\">photos<\/a> and reveals that owner <strong>Laura Enriquez <\/strong>spent over twenty years running successful restaurants in Playa Del Carmen.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured below are items from Tequila Kitchen&#8217;s signature Lunch Platter ($13) which is an affordable way to try a variety of tasty temptations, including: guacamole, salsa, 1 <em>Tostada de Pollo<\/em> (shredded chicken on an oven baked tortilla topped with lettuce, avocado, green salsa, onion cream and cheese), 2 <em>Tacos de Cochinita<\/em> (pulled pork slowly cooked in juicy annatto sauce in soft corn tortillas with marinated red onions), 2 <em>Tacos de Rajas<\/em> (Poblano rajas, sauted chicken and onions with cheese in a creamy sauce served in soft corn tortillas), rice, beans &amp; salad.  Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tequilakitchen.ca\/\">restaurant&#8217;s web site<\/a> for their current dinner menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tequila-kitchen-03.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican Tacos at Tequila Kitchen in Vancouver\" height=\"460\" width=\"690\" \/><br \/>\nMexican <strong>Tacos <\/strong>at Tequila Kitchen in Vancouver  (included with the Lunch Platter)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tequila-kitchen-02.jpg\" alt=\"Salsa and guocamole.\" height=\"460\" width=\"690\" \/><br \/>\nSalsa and guocamole.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tequila-kitchen-01.jpg\" alt=\"Tostada de Pollo (included in the Lunch Platter)\" \/>Tostada de Pollo (included in the Lunch Platter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tequila Kitchen (web site, 1043 Mainland St. Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone: 604-681-2120) is a new restaurant in the Yaletown neighborhood of downtown Vancouver, offering authentic and fresh Mexican cuisine in a simple and almost austere atmosphere. The minimalistic decor evokes some great restaurants and hotels I experienced while visiting the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,104,77,69,22,58,13,94,101,75,25,178,49,26,14,62,177,135,61,11,17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable","category-casual","category-chicken","category-comfort-food","category-creative-dishes","category-downtown","category-favorites","category-food-photos","category-healthy-food","category-home-cooked-style","category-lunch","category-lunch-specials","category-mexican","category-new-restaurants","category-reasonably-priced","category-restaurant","category-small-plates","category-soul-food","category-soup","category-tapas","category-vancouver","category-vancouver-restaurants","category-yaletown"],"views":19634,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}