El Chicos – great Mexican at Streatham Hill

If you don’t like sombreros , you won’t like El Chicos. There’s a fun, novelty Mexican feel about the place, with lots of Mexican memorabilia and sombreros everywhere (even before yours truly trips up the small step in the middle of the floor and then ends up with a head inside the coat cupboard, mistaking ‘cloakroom’ for ‘toilets’…

Tacuba – Mexican street food in Balham

Tacuba is a tiny restaurant in Balham – so nearly cosy but unfortunately pokey, though the bright Mexican decor is appealing on first glance.