Cantina El 40

Northeast Mexico


A swanky restaurant-bar with a colonial-meets-coyboy theme, Cantina El 40 serves up top-notch Mexican dishes with flair. Think gourmet street tacos and sizzling molcajete dishes (meals served in a stone mortar and pestle) paired with top-shelf cocktails and local wines. Seating is either indoors at thick wood tables with cow-patterned chairs or outdoors in a breezy courtyard.


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