MXO - Wes Avila’s New Place

Mentioned here:

And here is the same article, sans paywall:

Also written up here:

And here:

Website:

Menu:

Edited to add:
Text at bottom of menu reads:
“For your convenience, a suggested 20% gratuity will be added for parties of 6 or more. A 5% wellness fee is added to all checks in support of health benefits & workers comp premiums for our staff, which includes non-managerial and managerial staff alike, but it is not a fee or service. If you’d like this fee removed, please Iet us know.”

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97 write ups, who will be first to report back?

And is 5% a new surcharge record?

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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Restaurant surcharges & service charges: threat or menace?

This is going to be a wait and see for me. I’ve had a lot of ‘okay’ food at his places in the past 3-4 years

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Same here on both fronts.

I was major champion for Wes in the early days. I genuinely felt he was at the vanguard of a burgeoning American/Internationally-inflected style of cooking with solid Mexican roots, but each venture since Guerilla Tacos hasn’t quite resonated with me. Still very much like the guy and wish him nothing but success.

Those early GT days were something special though…

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