Critic Reviews on Angela's Cafe

Holy mole, Angela's serves real Mexican, The Boston Globe

Take Angela's Cafe. If you don't know your way around East Boston, it's quite a bit harder to find. But once you home in, you won't forget how to get there. Angela's is memorable....

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Angela’s Café: Rediscover your foodie religion, The Phoenix

Feeling blasé about the latest trendy French “bistro” serving $25 steak frites? Then get your jaded palette to Angela’s Café, an unprepossessing Eastie outpost of Cocina Poblana, a regional cuisine revered by Mexicans but little-known by Anglos...

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Mondo Meatball, Stuff@Night

Bolstering the meatball/family connection, Eastie storefront Angela's Cafe features chef Angela Atenco Lopez in the kitchen, her son Luis managing the dining room, and her other children and grandchildren waiting and bussing tables. Angela’s sensational Mexican food...

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Across the water, new wave breaking, The Boston Globe

Though it has been open only about five months, Angela's Cafe in East Boston is packed every day at breakfast, lunch, and dinner with people from each of the neighborhood's main demographic groups...

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