La Mexicana

About

Street tacos and the chorizo are the reasons to find La Mexicana, a grocery, carnicería and taquería on Dunraven Street. The counter also turns out breakfast burritos, chilaquiles verdes or rojos, menudo, pozole, quesadillas, barbacoa and tortas, with the carnitas torta coming up again and again. There is a bacon-wrapped hot dog for anyone who won't be talked out of it.

It sits about seven-tenths of a mile from downtown, next to Bob's Towing and Alpine Self Storage, and the setting is all business. Order at the counter, eat at a quiet table or take it back to the cabin, and grab chiles or fresh cuts from the meat case on the way out. It opens early enough for a breakfast burrito before a hike, prices stay low, and online ordering saves a wait on busy summer mornings.