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Chef Alex Stupak’s Mexican food dreams.

can’t find a decent place to eat tostadas in the northeast. I’m tired of taco hell, and other pseudo mexican food dives. In desperate need of a “los catrines” in the northeast. suggestions?

Seriously, is this the perfect food? it’s a varitable canvas for minimalist stroke of nutmeg or a jackson pollock style barrage of colorful flavors from a curry. fabulous!

to check on the steaks. Ordered dessert – the usual dreadful Jackson Pollock routine with the caramel and chocolate sauce. I chose not to bother with a cappucino – I can’t imagine they do enough. So, dinner for...

Had brunch at Balonpie this past Sunday and for the first time something clicked with me about popusas. Had been to Panchitas #3 where they pile them and drizzle crema and salsa over them like a Jackson Pollock painting. The masa...

—she got the Jackson Pollock, a gin and basil oil concoction that was quite tasty, and I, for some reason, got the bacon manhattan, with house-made cherry liqueur (not sure if I believe this was house-made, although...

veal Parmesan to smoked salmon, jumbo shrimp to fettuccine Alfredo. Entrées arrive looking like they were plated by Jackson Pollock. Sauces are splattered in zigzags and nuts are pulverized to a dust to give the sauce some...

in some sweet-funky nuoc mam, egg roll-burrito nirvana is achieved.   I get Bun Bo Hue, a fiery stew of pork blood, ham hock, marinated beef and rice stick. It’s a wild looking bowl of food, a noodle-soup Jackson Pollock...

The chef must be trigger happy with his ingrediants. Covered on the quesadilla were two sour cream based (?) sauces that would have scared Jackson Pollock. The goat cheese was dusted all over it and added nothing but saltiness to...

with the talented sommelier, who provided a terrific pinot noir. Exquisite and delicious – my plate of sorbets looked like an over-the-top Jackson Pollock, with every sort of fruit dribbled, scattered and painted across the...

and a pinch of sugar (mine needed it to balance the acidity from limes and heat from cayenne). I garnished w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, diced red onion, and the Jackson Pollock like drops that you see are a chimichurri-style...

you’d see in a salad. Stunning. Luscious, rich, light, amazing. Heaven. The third course is hard to describe. Inspired by a Jackson Pollock painting called No. 14 [grey] (see...

Cenaduría La Casita Mexicana in Bell, where they serve a little basket of excellent chips drip-covered with complex mole sauce — too bad Jackson Pollock didn’t work in moles — just before the fine to outstanding...

with the regulars. Some people run a tab till payday it seems. The interior is very homey with a mix of art and old-time kitchen gadgets. The back wall looks like something by Jackson Pollock, but the rest of the shop has antique...