Restaurant Preview: The Mercantile
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Amaranta is on the ground floor of a mall but it manages to distract you from that fact with its comfortable, candle-lit environment, giant blond-wood bar and rows of cheerful, cloth pink booths. The restaurant is owned by a couple who spends most of the year in the charming Mexican city of Cuernavaca and the food is prepared to their exacting standards. You won't find Americanized versions of Mexican cuisine at Amaranta; instead you'll find a variety of regional specialties, including ceviche de pescado, cochinita pibil and just-sweet-enough mole. The restaurant's manager boasts that Amaranta carries the most extensive list of tequilas in the L.A. area (they have more than 400 varieties) and a glance at the dozens of colorful boutique bottles displayed on the bar's well-lit back-wall shelves is enough to make you believe that he just might be right.
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This restaurant has sunk to a ZERO in my opinion. How does a restaurant that serves good food and great drinks rate a ZERO? It's simple. All they have to do is say the magic words, "We don't care." I don't know about the rest of you, but I like...
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Wow! Pretty good! I define the quality of restaurants I try by: the chips/salsa or bread before the meal, and by the iced tea (or other drinks)! This...
yum! excellent food...not your typical mexican restaurant. from the homemade chips, tortillas, to the yummy salsas. lighter mexican food...fresh ingredients...
I love this place.... been there twice and will be back again. For starters, the 3 salsas and fresh warm chips were delicious. Watch out for the green one...
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