Taqueria La Mestiza Expands Menu to Offer Dessert

A tipster shared the news that Taqueria La Mestiza, a Mexican restaurant in the Madison South neighborhood known for its Yucatecan offerings like panuchos, salbutes, cochinita pibil, and Relleno Negro, has expanded its menu to include desserts, AKA postres.

The La Mestiza Postres counter will offer ice cream and ice cream desserts, natural juices, and a separate section of broader antojitos, or snacks. Ice cream comes by the scoop and can also be places in various cones (sugar, cupcake, waffle). You can also have it in a banana split, a sundae, and a milkshake.

Also look for ice cream in a few more elaborate options, strawberry shortcake (with a vanilla cake base) being the most familiar, as well as a couple of things that involve fried flour tortillas and ice cream:

Buñuelo Sundae. Buñuelos (fried flour tortillas with cinnamon and sugar) with three scoops of ice cream, topped with honey, chocolate, strawberries, whipped cream, and cherries.
Ice Cream Nachos. Three scoops of ice cream, honey, chocolate, strawberries, whipped cream, coconut flakes, nuts, cherries, all atop cinnamon sugar flour tortilla strips.

They’ll offer orange, melon, watermelon, and pineapple juices, too. However, I’m particularly intrigued by the section of the menu called “Other specials”:

Mangonada. A kind of frozen mango drink, flavored with chamoy (a salty, sweet, sour condiment), Tajín, and lime. They’ll usually give you a tamarind candy straw with it. It has the capacity of being a flavor explosion.
Chicharron. Fried pork rinds or pork belly, essentially—not to be confused with chicharron preparado, a street snack from Mexico that starts with a base of a large rectangular fried chicharrón de harina. What I wouldn’t give to find that in Portland.
Tostilocos. This “crazy” snack has a base of Tostitos tortilla chips topped with any combination of tasty things—cueritos, cucumbers, mango, jicama, hot sauce, chamoy, Tajín, lime juice, and Japanese peanuts.
Bionicos. A kind of fruit salad topped with a sweet crema (often sweetened with lechera) and topped with granola and coconut.
Fresas crema. Strawberries and a dairy sauce made from sour cream (or Mexican crema), sweetened condensed milk (like lechera), evaporated milk, and vanilla extract.

So stop on by and have some great Yucatecan food, an interesting snack, and some ice cream. Despite what it feels like today (it’s 36F as I write this), warmer weather is coming it will be nice to have ice cream so easily accessible.

Taqueria La Mestiza – postres and antojitos
8525 NE Fremont Street, Portland
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