Melody's Mexican Kitchen

Cooked from-the-heart Mexican food is one of my favorite cuisines - having grown up in the Valley, the restaurants I find myself returning to have been culinary local landmarks for decades, like the trio owned and run by Alejandro and Norma Morales. Their triumvirate of easy and delicious restaurants -- Las Fuentes (1982), Melody's Mexican Kitchen (1993), and Sol y Luna (2004) -- is the food I crave when I visit my parents, and Melody’s happens to be the most convenient to swing by on a whim from their house. Its whimsically bright walls covered in Mexican folk art provide the perfect locale for this no-fuss dining room – I love ordering at the counter, snagging an often hard-to-get table, and savoring a cold Negra Modelo while awaiting the speedy arrival of my Salpicon Tostada Salad and the restaurant’s utterly perfect taquitos!

Sweater: Target (old)
Top: Loft (old)
Lips: Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipstick in Carina
Brows: Anastasia Beverly Hills DIPBROW® Pomade in Soft Brown
Glasses: Bonlook Bonnie & Clyde

Salpicon Tostada with cold shredded beef, beans, lettuce, cotija cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream, and avocado on two corn tortilla shells.

Chicken Taquito Bites with guacamole and sour cream.