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Cilantro

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Rehoboth Beach Reviews - Mexican

Cilantro owner, Gladys Fernandez, honed her restaurant skills in the Adams Morgan area of Washington, D.C. Like many of us, she slipped the surly bonds big-city craziness and headed for Rehoboth Beach. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The food biz can be

El Dorado

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Rehoboth Beach Reviews - Mexican

From a street vendor in Guadalajara to a storefront sandwiched between a UPS Store and an electrical supply place! That's quite a leap for owner and chef Aquiles Demerutis. (Half Mexican and half Greek, he calls himself "Greexican.") His taco joint, El Dorado, is becoming the go-to place in Rehoboth Beach for

Mariachi

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Rehoboth Beach Reviews - Mexican

Long-time restaurateurs Yolanda Pineda and Jose Perez are no strangers to Mexican and Spanish food. Within viewing distance of the Atlantic Ocean on Wilmington Avenue, the Rehoboth Beach Mariachi is one of the recent additions to Jose's collection of eateries in Frederick and Rockville, MD, and Lansdowne VA. Yolanda's personality

Dos Locos Fajita and Stonegrill

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Rehoboth Beach Reviews - Mexican

Now in their fourth incarnation (on Rehoboth Avenue in the space formerly occupied by the ill-fated Abizak's furniture store), Dos Locos continues to draw crowds, often enjoying a 2-hour wait in the high season. Though I return again and again, ready to criticize, Darryl and Joe's food

La Tonalteca

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Rehoboth Beach Reviews - Mexican

Of all the landmarks in Delaware, one of the most ubiquitous is the La Tolteca and La Tonalteca Mexican restaurants. Though they only recently "split" by making the minor changes in their names, they're all pretty much the same.

My experience is limited to the La Tonalteca installation on Rt. 1 in Rehoboth Beach. I often go there with the same group of people and each person is