We needed a special meal for our final night in the city; with Lindsay gushing that La Biznaga had the best cheese soup she'd ever EVER tasted, it was an easy choice.

Fancy night out! Well, backpacker-y fancy.

The space was beautifully-designed, and if not for its VERY large size, would easily fit into the New York restaurant scene. Very romantic atmosphere with an artistically-written menu (check the website...it's hard to read!) and a exceptionally attentive and polite staff. Truly classy joint, and priced accordingly of course...not expensive, but hardly street food!

The cheese soup was everything we'd heard, basically a tortilla soup with sweet onions and 4 luscious cheeses—not overly creamy and thick, just delicious robust flavor. After chips & salsa (incredible flavor) and this soup, our creatively unique mole dishes were almost too big. Almost.

Beautiful, creative dishes.

I ordered the mestiza rellena based purely on seeing zaramoras in the description, thinking mmm...berry mole! Unfortunately I didn't realize hongos was another word for mushrooms and I hate mushrooms. It was pretty easy to eat around them, though. Rubina had the absolutely delectable zandunga, which was a guava mole presented with rounds of plantains and drizzles of cream. Jasmine had a moist delicious fish filet with salsa.

With a couple beers, dinner ended up being about $15 each. The food runner was a boy about 12 years old, who surveyed tables with a very professional air, hands clasped behind his back. The waiter was quite friendly; he hovered a bit when taking our dishes away but not in a bothersome way. On the way out he asked us to come to his party on Saturday, but we'd be in Mexico City by then.

Great place, very interesting take on the usual moles—which in Oaxaca, are already quite varied as is. I'll admit it...I would return for that cheese soup alone.

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