Mi Mexico Lindo is no beauty itself, but it offers towering wheeled racks and expansive windowside shelves filled with pastries like these bready puffs, plumped with stiff vanilla custard ($1).
Do like the locals do: Pick up a tray and tongs by the register, and help yourself. None of my other selections, including a cruller threaded with a seam of chocolate (shown below), an orange-flavored cookie topped with toasted coconut, and a custard-lined, walnut-topped pastry square, has ever run more than two dollars, and under a dollar is not uncommon.
If you pull up a stool at one of the wallside counters, consider pairing your pastry with a hot cornmeal-based beverage called an atole (ah-Toll-ay). Mi Mexico Lindo's atole de champurrado (small; $1.25) has a delicate corn undertone to the chocolate; the atole de arroz (in a featured role below; $1.25) resembles a drinkable rice pudding, with lots of liquid and a scattering of grain at the bottom.
Mi Mexico Lindo
2267 Second Ave. (116th-117th Sts.)
212-996-5223
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Posted by: Linda | May 31, 2007 at 04:30 PM