This Old House is Filled With Moles and Margs
A real-deal neighborhood restaurant with addictive mole sauce
If I was too lazy to change the channel after Sesame Street, this show came on called “This Old House,” where a guy who looked way too clean cut to be fixing septic tanks taught me stuff I thought was just as valuable as what Elmo had to offer. You can imagine my disappointment when my first grade teacher never asked anyone if they knew how to caulk a bathtub.
I had this show in my head when I went to Casa MX in Coral Gables because it’s set in – you’ll never believe this – an old house. And I got to thinking how much cooler that show would have been if Bob Vila had been showing me how to make margaritas and strip steak mole. Because this old house – the one that houses Casa MX – puts out some A-grade Mexican food, and I’m crowning it the champion of this winter’s glut of Mexican eateries. Read on and you’ll learn all about it, and maybe how to rewire a dishwasher.
The space: Feels like a cozy, neighborhood restaurant carved out of a midcentury Coral Gables ranc…
