The Red Cabbage
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
A small restaurant tucked away in a Mexican neighborhood on the Rio Cuale, the river that runs through Puerto Vallara. With great cooking and eclectically decorated.
It has great cooking from around Mexico. Their signature dish is Chilies en Nogada. Developed over a hundred years ago to celebrate Mexican Independence, it's colors match the Mexican flag: red, green and white. It consists of a green poblano chili stuffed with a picadillo mixture of: meat, dried fruits and nuts. It is covered with a white almond sauce and sprinkled with red pomegranate seeds. It is served cold. I can't go here and not get one. They are too good. It is best when you get a poblano chili that has some heat to it. Sometimes it has no heat and sometimes it's heavenly.
They also have great moles, mole Poblano, mole Oaxaceno and pipian mole, made from pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds.
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