Xiquita
Perks
- Complimentary chef's choice appetizer any time you dine at the restaurant
About
Opened roughly one year ago, this Uptown eatery that celebrates ancestral Mexican cuisine has been showered with accolades, appearing on Bon Appetit’s “7 Must-Visit New Restaurants” List and being named a Westword “Best New Restaurant” Award Winner IN 2025. Chef Erasmo (Ras) Casiano, whose Lucina restaurant in Park Hill has become a destination since our last visit, was a James Beard “Best Chef: Mountain” Semi-Finalist. At Xiquita, his brilliant masa is the backbone to a range of dishes, from taco de mercado (duck fat cured ribeye) to sope (barbacoa de lengua, or bbq tongue) to tamal Oaxaqueno. Still, there’s so much more here: sikil pak (grilled beets over Yucatan tomato and pepita spread with goat cheese), tuetano (beef marrow with mushroom chile arbol), and carne asada. Fabulous desserts too, like pan de elote (sweet corn cake with ice cream and lavender) and prickly pear sorbet. 5280 hails Xiquita as “a deliciously ambitious ode to Mexico City…the masa dishes wow…exceptional.”
Category
- Restaurants
