A wood-fire neighborhood table

You are coming to dinner, not to a restaurant.

Two seatings, forty chairs, one fire. The menu is short and it changes when the farm tells it to. Reservation recommended; the bar is always walk-in.

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Wednesday–Sunday · seatings 18:00 & 20:30 · English y español

The menu, spoken

Read it the way we say it at the pass.

Most tables do well with two things to start, one from the garden, and one from the fire between every two people. Last read aloud June 28 · demo prices.

To start · para empezar

Dish	Price	At the pass
Wood-oven bread, cultured butter, smoked salt	9	Order it first; everything that follows assumes you did.
Gildas — anchovy, manzanilla olive, guindilla	8	One bite, three arguments.
Chicharrones, lime, chile de árbol salt	10	Dos Hermanas Ranch · nothing wasted

Raw · crudo

Dish	Price	At the pass
Gulf oysters, smoked mignonette	21 the half dozen	Texas Gulf · day-boat
Snapper crudo, green apple, serrano, lime	18	Ask for extra tortillas.

From the garden · de la huerta

Dish	Price	At the pass
Coal-roasted Zapotec tomatoes, whipped requesón, ash oil	14	Cerro Alto Farm · dry-farmed · picked at dawn
Ember carrots, whipped requesón, chile crisp, mint	15	Cerro Alto Farm
Grilled oyster mushrooms, tarragon butter, grilled bread	16	The plate that converts the skeptics.

From the fire · del fuego

Dish	Price	At the pass
Whole sea bream in fig leaves, salsa macha, charred lemon	38	Unwrapped at your table so the steam is yours.
Half chicken al carbón, salsa verde, charred lemon	34	Brined a day, finished over open coals.
Dos Hermanas pork chop, burnt peach, mostaza	44	Dos Hermanas Ranch · pasture-raised

For the table · para la mesa

Dish	Price	At the pass
Dos Hermanas lamb shoulder, twelve hours over oak, tortillas made at 17:00	46, feeds two	The dish the room is built around.
32 oz ribeye a la leña, chimichurri, salsa verde	124, feeds two or three	Dry-aged forty days, carved at the table.

Alongside · para acompañar

Dish	Price	At the pass
Tortillas made at 17:00	5	—
Frijoles de la olla	8	Order the beans even if you think you won't finish them.
Ember potatoes, garlic aioli	9	—

To finish · para terminar

Dish	Price	At the pass
Burnt-honey flan, smoked salt	11	Honey from the Cerro Alto hives
Wood-oven chocolate, ash cream, olive oil	13	Comes out just before you think you're done.

The wine list is forty bottles long and mostly Spanish. Corkage is 40 a bottle, two bottles at most, one waived for every bottle bought from the list.

Centera installs · Front desk

How the front desk answers a reservation call.

A regular calls to book a birthday dinner. The desk knows the room, the counter and the back table.

Takes reservations at any hour, in English y en español
Knows both seatings, the counter and the back table
Passes allergies and occasions to the kitchen

One of our people checks every call.

Language of this call:

Example call

La Mesa

Front desk · EN/ES

Incoming call · Tue 11:40 PM

Hi, a table for four this Saturday?

Happy to check. We have two seatings, 18:00 and 20:30. Which would you like?

20:30. It's my mom's birthday.

Lovely. I'll note the birthday for the kitchen. Any allergies I should pass along?

None, thank you.

Request: 4 at 20:30 Sat · birthday noted · host confirms

Centera installs · Reservations

Put your name in the book.

Two to six chairs book here. Seven or more get a set menu, planned with you. Demo form: nothing is sent.

Good to know

Wed–Sun · bar from 17:00 · seatings 18:00 & 20:30 · Monday and Tuesday the fire rests
The book opens 60 days out
Six or more: we hold a card, we don't charge it. No-shows and same-day cancellations are 25 a chair
No reservation? Eight stools at the bar, full menu

Sin reservación, la barra es tuya.

Centera installs · Review replies

Every review gets a reply in La Mesa's voice.

One example, clearly marked: the review, and a reply written in the business's voice.

The reviewExample

Booked the back table for my mother's birthday en español, no fuss, and the room glowed all night. Ya tenemos mesa favorita.

Lucía · King William

Illustrative review from the demo site, not a real customer.

The replyExample

Gracias, Lucía. The back table is built for evenings like that one: one party, one long conversation. Tell your mother the flan is waiting.

— Rosa and everyone at La Mesa

Centera

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