New York

This comfortably dive bar-ish eatery's plating up Mexican street/diner food like tacos (carnitas, pollo, hongos, etc), Torta Ahogada (sourdough stuffed w/ pork confit and beans), and Pollo Encacahuatado (chicken in mole peanut sauce). For the next few months they're BYOB, but they are serving Mexican Aguas made-to-order: cantaloupe, watermelon, even prickly pear -- wouldn't you be standoffish if everybody called you "pear-shaped"?