Tequila's Town Mexican Restaurant

Tequila's Town, a Mexican restaurant on Whitaker Street downtown, answers cold weather with sopa azteca, a traditional chicken soup that is not to be mistaken for tortilla soup. Its broth simmers for hours with chicken and vegetables, and each bowl comes with Mexican rice, avocado slices, pico de gallo and lime to squeeze over the top. It is the kind of soup that brings people back weekly, even once the weather warms. Order the sopa azteca.

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Tequila's Town serves the cooking of south and central Mexico from a Whitaker Street dining room run by the Ortiz family, who come from Morelia. Connect Savannah's review says the tacos taste like they came from the street vendors of that city, and that the food is genuine enough to need none of the usual decoration. Marinated Oaxacan fajitas and a Veracruz seafood soup round out the menu. Order the tacos.

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Tequila's Town runs a Whitaker Street dining room the Ortiz family built around the cooking of south and central Mexico. Connect Savannah's review found no mariachi soundtrack and no sombreros on the ceiling, just food genuine enough to need none of it: marinated fajitas the way they make them in Oaxaca, a seafood soup from Veracruz, and mole poblano of chicken bathed in a sauce of chocolate, chilis and sesame seeds. Order the mole poblano.

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