Best Southwest American Restaurants in Van Ness

Good place for good food and relaxing. Josip was an excellent server - attentive and friendly!

Great restaurant! Will be back! I had the green tamale and it was delicious. We had guacamole for the table and I had to fight to get any! We shared the upside down flan cake and the coffee flavored ice cream/pudding dessert and they were both amazing.

Amazing service, excellent hospitality and flavorful food!

This is our favorite restaurant , simply because the lamb chops are always incredibly delicious. A simple, well prepared meal. What's nice about it is it has never varied; over the last 5 or so years the marinated lamb chops have always been incredibly tasty. We go to a lot of restaurants in the DMV and with a few exceptions we've had good to superb, and few horrendous experiences. The most amazing so far has been Minibar; the horrendous I will not mention...! I rank Malinche high not because it is a Michelin star place but rather it has NEVER failed us. A Simple neighborhood restaurant with really good, and always good, food, and with great service. A couple of times we have called ahead to have the lamb chops ready, and everything is set up for us on our arrival. The food is called "Mexican" on some sites but it is really focused on Mexican/Spanish tapas. Truthfully there are a few other restaurants that are like this - and fancier and with more choices, but we always come back, in between going to some of the gems in the DMV. Because, unlike some of those "gems" which can disappoint, this place so far never has. La Malinche is an interesting, somewhat controversial name. Comes from the name of Cortes' translator, a remarkable woman who accomplished a lot. in very very tough circumstances.

A great food find with delicious food, drinks and ambiance. Will definitely be back soon