El Milenario — Restaurant in Oaxaca

Authentic and traditional oaxacan cuisine at a great price, quality, and great portions just a few feet away from Tule's tree landmark and main square. The ambiance is amazing: full of art and craft decorations along with the traditional "hacienda" style of architecture. They have cooks making tortillas and some other dishes right in the middle of the restaurant in a traditional open fire kitchen. Some cons: it is always busy since it is a popular place. Try to reserve a table or plan ahead of time to avoid long waiting lines. They take cash only, and they don't split bills as most of the restaurants in Mexico. They don't have rxclusive.parking lot, so you may need to park in some of the alleys and streets around the restaurant. With all of that, I highly recommend it for...

Maybe I just ordered the wrong thing but I ordered the Barbacoa tacos - one of them had a huge chunk of bone in it that hurt my tooth. The taste was sub-par. The tacos were $150 pesos which is expensive for the area. I wouldn’t have posted the review just based on that though. Today I have food poisoning and this was the only place we ate at while visiting so I think it was from here. I am American but I’ve been in Mexico for 5 months and only had one other incident of food sickness during that period. We went because of all the great reviews - it must have been an off day for them. Service was good and they gave me a frosted mug with my beer which got them...

Amazing and authentic local restaurant just across the street from the famous tree in Santa Maria del Tulle, we came back here twice during our five day stay in Oaxaca because the food was so good. Try the Huitlacoche quesadilla a type of mushroom that grows on corn cobs, amazing! Also love that the tortillas are fresh cooked outside on a wood fired plancha by the happy abuelas. They also roast the tomatoes for the fresh salsas on the coals. Try a ‘tuna’ drink it’s a local drink made from a type of cactus, delicious and don’t worry, does not contain any fish! Would definitely come here again, it’s about a 20 min drive from Oaxaca...