New York’s best restaurants are among the most expensive in the world, but Casa Enrique remains friendly to the budget.
It’s the shorts I notice first. I was expecting Casa Enrique, New York’s cheapest Michelin-star restaurant, to be more relaxed than some of the city’s other fine diners but when I arrive on a warm summer evening, I’m a little surprised at the complete absence of long trousers among the guests seated at the restaurant’s outdoor tables.That includes the table of young women workshopping their friends’ relationship updates, and several families who have brought their kids for an early dinner.
The specialty of the house is mole di Paixtla, chicken enveloped in velvety sauce made with almonds, raisins, sesame, chocolate and seven different chillies that is simultaneously nutty, sweet, bitter and tongue-numbingly hot, and costs $US27 .Mariana Pelaez And he hasn’t. Keeping the prices affordable has let him keep a loyal local clientele even as he regularly gets bookings from overseas visitors. The fit-out – from the whitewashed interiors to the curbside tables – has stayed simple, and the drinks list matches the Latin flavours on the menu with Mexican beers, Spanish wines and cocktails such as mezcal martinis and mezcal negronis alongside pisco sours.
Aguilar is an accidental chef. Originally, trained as a mechanic but couldn’t find work when he migrated to the United States in 1998. One of his brothers was working in a French restaurant and got him a job as a porter. Soon after he moved into the kitchen.
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