Mexican

• Santo Remedio

  A proper authentic Mexican restaurant at London Bridge.

• Hacha in Dalston is a tequila and mezcal bar with Mexican sharing plates

  This Dalston tequila and mezcal bar features margaritas on tap, all the agave spirits you could need and is backed up by a Mexican sharing menu. 

• Top Mexican chef Enrique Olvera is coming to London for a cookbook tour

  

  Now this IS a big deal. If you've never made it across the pond to try Enrique Olvera's amazing Cosme restaurant in NYC (or for that matter Pujol in Mexico City)  - 25 and 13 respectively in the World's 50 Best Restaurants list - then you are in for a treat. Olvera is coming to London for a food tour to coincide with the publication of his ‘Tu Casa Mi Casa' with Phaidon and there will be opportunities to try his food.

  First he's cooking a supper at Casa

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• Taco Bell are opening their first London restaurant for years in Hammersmith

  Love 'em or hate 'em, the return of Taco Bell to London is going to get a lot of people excited.

• Test Driving Casa and Plaza Pastor - outside or inside at Coal Drops Yard?

  The Harts Group bring their very popular Mexican restaurant to the impressive Coal Drops Yard area. And they've split it into two. We head to King's Cross to try it out.  

• Breddos revamp their Soho basement to create their new taco and margarita bar

  

  News reaches us of the transformation of Breddos' basement area into their brand new taco and margarita bar, Cocteleria. For all your Soho Margarita needs - this could be the place to be...

  The subterranean area has had something of a revamp and they're bringing in a new menu to go with that. Frozen margaritas will be on the menu, of course, and if you can tear yourselves away from those, other

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• Casa and Plaza Pastor are coming to King’s Cross Coal Drops Yard

  The Coal Drops Yard is increasingly looking like the place to be with Casa & Plaza Pastor arriving, courtesy of the ever-expanding Harts Group empire. Expect tacos and more Mexican food from the people who brought you El Pastor. 

• Licoreria Limantour, Latin America’s best bar, pops up at 34 Mayfair

  

  Top Mexican bar Licoreria Limantour is temporarily popping up in Mayfair this August. It'll be taking over 34 Mayfair's artsy Emin Room, turning it into 34 Mexico for five nights.

  As one of the World‘s 50 Best Bars, and the holder of the not-inconsiderable title of

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• Casa Bonita Mexican bar is popping up in Kingly Street

  

  Just a few weeks after Cinnamon Soho announced it was closing, the Inception Group (the folk behind Mr Foggs and Bunga Bunga and who also run Cahoots just around the corner in Kingly Court) have said they'll be popping up there with a new bar Casa Bonita.

  The Latin bar will open towards the end of June for a six-month period serving up various cocktails using Bacardi, Banks and Santa Teresa rums, Patron tequila and Leblon cachaca. As for the food - we're told

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• Bleeding burgers, boozy popsicles, the return of Rita's and more - your weekly news round-up

  

  From more bleeding burgers to the return of Rita's, we bring you all the news that was fit to print (but we just didn't get around to covering elsewhere this week)...

• Clapham's Counter Culture goes Mexican at the start of a world tour

  

  Changes are afoot at Counter Culture, the counter-and-stools restaurant from the people behind The Dairy (and right next-door to it). They're kicking off a new menu that will change every two months, circling the globe to concentrate on new cuisines each time, and giving them the Counter Culture twist, adding housemade pickles, ferments and cures.

  First up, they're looking at Mexican food. That menu

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• The Hart Bros are bringing Barrafina, El Pastor and a new wine bar The Drop to King's Cross at Coal Drops Yard

  

  Big news from the Hart Bros this morning (the family behind Barrafina, Quo Vadis and El Pastor) - seems they're planning on expanding their empire to King's Cross.

  In a release this morning, they reveal they're going to be bringing a huge new Barrafina to the next big section of the King's Cross development to open - Coal Drops Yard. There's already a load of big fashion and design names involved including

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• The El Pastor team are opening Tortilleria El Pastor on Druid Street

  The team behind Borough's El Pastor are opening their own tortilla factor and taco bar down the road beside Maltby Street Market

• Margaritas, tacos and lobster rolls - our Norwegian Caribbean cruise

  

  As our readers will know, we've done a few cruises in our time and - chosen carefully - they can be a really easy way to tour loads of interesting places, in comfort, with very little effort on your part. You just turn up, unpack, and for the next week wake up somewhere new each morning.

  For cruise companies, finding something that distinguishes them from their competitors, often travelling similar routes, is key. The quality of the food they offer has

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• Test Driving Santo Remedio Mk 2 - the authentic Mexican restaurant is resurrected in Bermondsey

  One of London's best Mexican restaurants has been revived at a new Bermondsey location. We head down to see what's new at Santo Remedio.