New Denton establishment offers variety and adventure with a Tex-Mex theme

So you’ve been wondering where to get some Mexican food in Denton. You don’t want to visit one of the ubiquitous taco casas? You say you want to sit down in a chic environment and have someone bring you something you can feel some serious anticipation about? You want honest, fresh authentic ingredients cooked with care and perhaps even passion? Look no further than South Denton, where a new restaurant called Mi Taza has been constructed with a chic bistro setting. And the price? Cheaper than Don Jose’s or South of the Border for sure.

This is a place where you can get fajitas in more or less the usual style–choose a plate of tacos, enchiladas, burritos tostadas or quesadillas if you want to play it safe–but the real stars of the menu show here are the  Latin and South American food items,the cachapa, the soups and the arepas. Let me sing the song of the arepas! This cross between a gordita and a corn muffin, stuffed with chicken, beef or gouda cheese, is delicioso without a precedent. You have to try the arepas to understand. I wake up nights and think about them.

The cachapa, a corn meal pancake folded around shredded beef and cheese, is as flavorful and succulent as anything I’ve ever had at a 50$ a plate restaurant, Mexican or otherwise.  The soups are truly superior and again range from the pedestrian — tortilla soup — to the exotic — sopa de apio, made from the casava root and I promise, a very very tasty bowl of comfort food it is. You can get fine coffee, granitas, agua frescas and flan and sopapillas as well. Truly this is a restaurant where the adventurous can sit down and break (corn) bread with the more meat and potatoes types (potatoes, by the way, come from the Andes of South America).  I encourage you to make the trip down Teasley lane, pull off into the Kroger parking lot, and look on the southeast side for the Mi Taza coffee mug sign.  If you’re anything like me, you’ll be glad you did.

Mi Taza Latin Cafe and Restaurant

5017 Teasley Lane Denton TX 76210 (940) 591-9999

Tuesday to Friday 11-2:30 and 5-9

Saturday 11-9           Sunday 9-2