A world of Mexican delights at El Mundo
LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
You’ll find a lot of different kinds of Mexican eateries around town. “Mexican” dining experiences run the gamut from tacquerias so authentic that you’ll need to bring a Spanish-English dictionary (or at least a smile and a plan to point out what you want) to, well, Taco Bell, which barely qualifies as Mexican at all.The Metro is chock-a-block with Anglo-friendly real-Mexican places like Los Aztecas, El Tarasco and El Nopal; sit-down chain dining in a Tex-Mex style (Chuy’s), and fast-casual American eats with a light Mexican accent. We’ve got burrito shacks (Lolita’s, La Bamba), and so it goes. If you want Mexican, you can have it real or have it faux — or anywhere in between.
But one local Mexican favorite can best be described by the Latin (not Spanish) term sui generis, meaning “one of a kind,” in a good way.
El Mundo was one of the early arrivals in the Frankfort Avenue restaurant renaissance. It settled in to its tight quarters about 18 years ago, around the same time the Irish Rover popped up a block or two away, so both have been around long enough to become neighborhood landmarks.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/a-wor ... t-el-mundo
And in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/world-mexic ... s-el-mundo
El Mundo
2345 Frankfort Ave.
899-9930
http://www.502elmundo.com
Rating: 86