Mole. Oaxaca. Rinse. Repeat. If you stop me on the street corner and tell me that there is a more perfect sauce than mole, you are either lying or wrong. La Carta's mole and tender slow-cooked puerco is bliss -- don't even talk to me about Cactus and that place in Fremont, they can't hang. And they charge 3 times as much as La Carta. And their salsa isn't as good. And La Carta's decor kicks -- and all the photos of ruddy-yet-attractive Oaxacans and their surroundings are by local artist Spike Mafford. Did I mention the mole? Plus they are open past 10. Yahtzee.
more