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Mixtli

MEESH-LEE, MIX-TLI / has the variant form MEX-TLI: Aztec spoken word for cloud.


The Cloud

To define Mexican cuisine is impossible. Mexico is as diverse as it is vast. Within its borders lie rocky mountains, humid jungles, arid deserts, and endless coasts: a stark diversity that forced each region to develop uniquely rich cultural and culinary histories.

Like clouds, our menu travels from place to place offering a tour in Mexican gastronomy. If the state has a border with the ocean, we start our trek on the coast and work inland, bringing dishes specifically from that region or state. After each season, the cloud travels to other lands and we begin again.

It is our mission that you fall in love with Mexico.


Our current menu: Mexico: 1848

The Mexican Empire once stretched from Costa Rica all the way to Northern California. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2nd, 1848, by the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, Mexico lost the territories of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, parts of Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and all of California to the U.S. Years prior, the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas had declared their independence from Mexico as the Republic of the Rio Grande, which also included the eastern part of the state of Chihuahua.

However, the border with Texas was not clearly defined: the Republic of the Rio Grande claimed the Nueces River as its northern border, while Texas continued to claim the Rio Grande as its southern border.

During this time, a vast majority of northern Mexico was inhabited by local tribes, who tended to the land. Political turmoil and unrest added to the harshness of life in those regions.