Maria's Cocina
Recipes passed down for generations

From my abuela's kitchen to yours.

Most of this menu comes from my grandmother's kitchen in Oaxaca. The birria comes from my husband's family in Jalisco. All of it is made from scratch every day, by people who still call this place "the family kitchen."

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come hungry, leave like family

Mole & fresh tortillas, table-side
Mole and fresh tortillas at Maria's Cocina

Sunday family table

Est.
2011

Dear neighbor, everything here is made the way my mom taught me, and the way her mom taught her. Nothing comes out of a freezer bag. If we run out of something, it's because we sold the last of today's batch.

Maria, in the kitchen most days

Maria in the kitchen, 2011 & today
Maria, founder

Fifteen years in, same recipe box

our story

A recipe box from Oaxaca, fifteen years of guests who became family.

Maria opened these doors with a handful of recipes written in her grandmother's handwriting and not much else. She didn't have investors or a test kitchen. Just the same mole recipe and the same tamale fold, made the same way every morning since. Regulars don't get a table here. They get "their" table.

15

years in this kitchen

3

generations of recipes

0

shortcuts taken

birthdays · quinceañeras · office parties

Let's cook for your whole fiesta.

Catering trays for 10 to 200, a full buyout, or just the big table in the back. Tell us the headcount and the occasion, and we'll get back to you within a day.

Plan your fiesta
for our regulars

Get La Familia Card.

Eight stamps and your next meal is on the house. There's no app. Just give us your name at the register and we'll keep track. And yes, Taco Tuesday is still the best night to come.

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La Familia Card

8 stamps = your next meal, on us

5 of 8. Three more visits to a free meal.

what folks say

Notes left on the table

★★★★★
"The mole alone is worth the drive. We've brought our whole extended family here for three birthdays now."
Priya N.
★★★★★
"You can taste that nothing here comes from a freezer bag. The tamales taste like someone's grandmother made them, because she did."
Daniel R.
★★★★★
"Got La Familia Card on visit one. We're on stamp six and already planning our quinceañera catering with them."
The Alvarez family

Reviews shown are illustrative samples written for this concept project.

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Tell us what you're craving and when you're coming. We'll have the chips and salsa ready either way.