Pokez Mexican Restaurant

Our first night in the new apartment, after the movers were finally able to finish, we ate at Pokez Mexican Restaurant (Yelp). I suggested the place after noting its writeup in this old NYT travel piece linked by the (underwhelming) Wikipedia page on the East Village. The atmosphere in this place is awesome. Its all done up rock-Mexican-urban artsy-something or other and I love it.

This place's thing is to have virtually everything on the menu capable of being made vegetarian or vegan. Neither GF or me is either, so this was less of a selling point for us.

They give you a ton of food for your money at this place. I ordered the enchiladas suiza ($7.00 for two with rice and beans), but they were out of the promised "special green sauce." I ordered it anyway, with standard salsa subbed in. It was good, solid, but it did not blow me away. I feel I need to try this dish again with the "special green sauce." GF had the carne asada tacos ($8.25 for two with rice and beans). They were very good, but extremely salty. So, if salt is your thing, try these.

Also, no booze! We tried to order beer, as there was a sign in the corner listing prices for beer and sangria, but the waiter said something I didn't quite catch regarding their liquor license and comic con weekend. So I don't know what the deal with this is; all I know is that I couldn't get any booze there.