Cuchara, the Mexico City-style bistro in Montrose, is probably best known for its lively brunches, usually replete with cocktails and mariachis. The bright and colorful restaurant also serves a fantastic lunch and dinner menu nearly every day of the week, featuring some of Mexico City’s greatest hits. You can dive into crispy chicken flautas with salsa verde, earthy and nutty fried huitlacoche quesadillas, or deeply aromatic and savory mole negro. We can’t get enough of the creamy chilatole masa soup with serranos, or the truly other-worldy empanadas de ate con queso for dessert. Those little guava and cheese pastries are so fluffy, rich, and sweet—imagine if a funnel cake and cream cheese danish had a little guava baby, and then topped it with powdered sugar. We’ll have another one, and some café de olla, please. Stroll into Cuchara for a casual weeknight dinner, a second or third date, or dinner with the fam. Or brave a margarita-fueled Sunday brunch with your besties. If you want to extend your brunch experience to every day of week, the folks behind Cuchara have opened Cucharita just one block up expressly to fulfill that desire. The breakfast and lunch cafe is open everyday and has a boatload of Mexican pastries you can snack on there or take home.