the painted burro menu
SOMERVILLE – Flavorful. Fragrant. Fun. The artery aliment of Mexico City has accustomed on Elm Artery in Davis Square, Somerville at The Painted Burro.
It’s a loud and active place, accent by bright murals, rustic board furniture, affluence of activity at the bar and affluence of adroitness advancing out the kitchen. Sure, you can get your standards here: thick-cut tortilla chips and salsa, a huge array of tacos, and a ample margarita; but you can additionally acquisition a beginning kale bloom with broiled blah nuts, three styles of just-mashed guacamole, alike a colossal agglomeration backtalk tostada with cucumber and lime.
In the words of Executive Chef Danny Bua, it’s a new booty on a Mexican restaurant.
“Something that’s added than rice and beans on everything. We’ve absitively that we appetite to focus on fresh, local, affection ingredients. We appetite to booty dishes that are actual authentic, put it actuality in Davis Square and accomplish our own circuit on it. Aloof fun, fast, quick aliment that tastes delicious.”
The Cholo Blah Cob is a absolute example: aloof candied artlessness kicked up with aroma and authenticity.
Cholo Blah Cob at The Painted Burro (Image: Phantom Gourmet)
“This is absolutely what they would eat bottomward in Mexico in the streets,” Danny said. “In Mexico City it’s very, actual popular. It’s actual delicious. It’s got mayo, it’s got lime, it’s got cheese, it’s got spice, and it aloof goes absolute with the acidity of the corn. It’s adhesive on your fingers but cipher cares. It’s authentic and simple blah and it’s the best adorable blah you’ve anytime had.”
Deliciously blowzy feel foods boss abundant of the Painted Burro menu. The signature Artery Tacos are served over fresh-grilled blah tortillas, with toppings like Gulf Shrimp and mango salsa, and the Abbreviate Rib Barbacoa “Double Stack”.
Short Rib Barbacoa Bifold Assemblage at The Painted Burro (Image: Phantom Gourmet)
“The abbreviate rib taco is boring braised abbreviate ribs, a bendable blah tortilla with broiled cheese, and again it gets a adamantine taco carapace on top on that. That’s why we alarm it a bifold stack,” explained Danny. “Then it gets a bail abounding of our appropriate atramentous mole. It’s crunchy, it’s sweet, it’s peppery, savory. It’s like heaven.”
For article alike added heavenly, alpha your meal with the Pork Belly and Watermelon Salad. It’s sweet, salty, rich, and antic tasty, served with Serrano chiles and a tamarind glaze. If you’re attractive for added of a knife-and-fork affectionate of meal, you gotta go for the absolute accord Mexican Artery Cart Craven served over sautéed kale & absurd plantains, with buttery poblano rice.
Mexican Artery Cart Craven at The Painted Burro (Image: Phantom Gourmet)
“A lot of bodies don’t adjustment craven back they go to a restaurant. The air-conditioned affair about our chicken, it’s apathetic broiled for two and a bisected hours. It’s aloof broiled and caramelized on the outside. Whole broiled birds, and we marinate them in achiote paste, bullwork them additionally overnight. So that affair is affirmed dank back you get it,” said Danny.
An alike added abundant meal is the Yucatan Meatloaf, served accessible faced with two absurd eggs on top, red birthmark and thick-cut acknowledgment on the bottom.
Yucatan Meatloaf at The Painted Burro (Image: Phantom Gourmet)
“The meatloaf is bigger than your family’s meatloaf growing up. My mom didn’t use alkali and pepper. But all of a abrupt I put alkali and pepper on things and things aloof aftertaste amazingly delicious. But with all these added capacity in the meatloaf, it tastes alike ten times that. So we’ve got arena beef and chorizo, deviled ham, chopped ham, bacon, onions, garlic. It’s a account of like 25 ingredients.”
On Sundays, the Painted Burro serves one of the best brunches in Greater Boston, featuring dishes like the Burro Benedict, arranged with two poached eggs, broken ham, and a smoked-chile hollandaise. For dessert, there are the cinnamony candied Burro Churros with broiled chocolate, or the appetizing Tres Leches cake, with fire-torched, housemade fluff.
Tres Leche Block at The Painted Burro (Image: Phantom Gourmet)
“It’s a adorable alloy of a close chicken blot cake, that’s assimilation in a admixture of abridged milk, evaporated milk, abundant cream, and of advance rum,” Danny described. “Because Boner was invented actuality in Somerville, we’ve absitively that we appetite to accomplish our own fluff. You gotta accept it.”
In the end, this ability not be the affectionate of Mexican aliment you’re acclimated to, but that’s absolutely why you should accord the Painted Burro a try. You can acquisition it at 219 Elm Artery in Somerville, and online at thepaintedburro.com.
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