Review: Ballard Jazz Festival: Moutin Reuinion Band, Carl Allen Trio, Multi-High School Jazz Band

[juanal]

and La Carta de Oaxaca in Ballard.

I have been meaning to do this for two weeks so here goes.

Comments

[llachglin]

Mmm, that restaurant sounds good. From your description and your online menu, it sounds like the food is a lot more like actual Mexican food you'd get in Mexico, rather than just really good Tex-Mex. I've never been to Oaxaca but when I went to Zihuatanejo in nearby Guerrero the food was great. Anyway, how close to authentic Oaxaca food is it?

[juanal]

I am not sure because I haven't been to Oaxaca either, but the mole sauce rich in chocolate and the banana leaf rather than corn husk tamale wrap are very authentic variations, and the sauce for the Berria tasted very Mexican to me, I am just used to fattier lamb roast which is probably the only reason it seemed a little dry to me. I'll tell you this, when my dad comes up to visit next time (he was born and raised in Cadareta, Mexico just outside of Monterey) this place is tops on my list of places to take him to eat.

The restaurant is wall to wall with pitures of thier town back in thier homeland, too. I am pretty sure it is very authentic, and I wouldn't at all compare it with good tex-mex the same way you don't compare authentic Itallian with the Olive Garden.