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Thrillist has picked its top 21 Mexican restaurants in the country and Palm Springs’ Las Casuelas Terraza is one of three SoCal eateries on the list.

Thrillist writer Adam Lapetina praises Las Casuelas for its sweet corn tamales and shredded chicken quesadilla but adds, “there isn’t anything you shouldn’t be (getting) — they use family recipes brought from Mazatlan, and — for 15 years now — have been hand-making batches of incredible sweet corn tamales every day. That’s a lot of damn tamales.” Lapetina also notes that the family-owned and ran business located at 222 South Palm Canyon Drive was the first Mexican restaurant in the desert and its “drug kingpin Jalisco mansion”-like atmosphere is very Palm Springs.

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