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“Have your pick of some of the best street food in the western hemisphere—also available through the taco-truck-style opening in the front—and a Brazilian jui...” UrbanDaddy

Cuisine:  Latin American, Latin Street Food
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Tom Tom and I stopped into Macondo the other evening for a drink or three. Though it would be cruel to subject a place to an official review just a couple of days after it opened, Macondo is already showing some winning traits. The decor verges on the kitschy, with rope baskets slung above the bar ... Read More
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Macondo, the new Latin American "upscale street food" restaurant from the owners of Rayuela, opened just two weeks ago on the LES, and already there are user reviews, planted shills, and write ups about everything from the cocktail list to the stools on various food sites. It sounds like t... Read More
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Macondo is a spot in the lower-east side that I would describe as island-hip. Filled with finished-unfinished wood tables, concrete floors, transparent-filament bulbs enclosed in large glass globes, and open to the street, the pan-Latin upscale eatery evokes a feeling of staying at an island resort... Read More
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New York City's streets offer more than their share of miscellaneous food. But somehow, when used in a restaurant context, the words "street food" remain evocative. They conjure not boiled beef dogs and hot roasted nuts but a world of exotic, bargain-priced, authentic treats. Macondo is th... Read More
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It's time for another edition of Adventures in Shilling, in which we fight shilling the best way we can, by shaming tasteless, unscrupulous shills into submission. Well, that's the plan, at least. Fight shills yourself by dropping offensive links to tips@eater.com Welcome back to Adventures in Shil... Read More
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It appears that the space vacated by Lo-Side two years ago has a new occupant. Macondo, a new Brazilian food restaurant according to an exclusive, EVP interview with a man on a ladder, will open tonight on Houston Street between Allen and Eldridge. Macondo Appears on Houston The ma... Read More
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This “street-food,” spot by the owners of upscale Rayuela, recently opened on a bustling corner of East Houston. The location fits the menu, a mélange of borrowings from allover the Spanish speaking world featuring anything from Cuban plantain balls with pork to shrimp empanadas and Venezuelan... Read More
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Since I wrote about "real" Latin street food in Sunset Park last week, this week I thought it would be interesting to review Macondo, a new, upscale, pan-Latin street food spot on the LES. Obviously, there's no comparison, and I'll always prefer the curbside taco trucks to a slick ... Read More
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Had a very tasty brunch here. The huevos rancheros were not only very good but the presentation was totally unique. Service was great as well. Read More
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Macondo: Named after the fictional Colombian village in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, this new Lower East Side restaurant gives Latin street food a gourmet twist. We stopped in for dinner Thursday night, and though they're still working out the kinks (the frozen d... Read More
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