La Popular CDMX, the much-heralded contemporary Mexican restaurant that debuted in June 2023 at the Palms, has closed after a little more than year of serving spicy street corn salad, aguachile with tiger prawns, and tacos al pastor with meat sliced from the trompo spit in the middle of the dining room.
La Popular, from Grupo Carolo restaurant group of Mexico City and Eureka Restaurant Group of California, opened its third U.S. outpost with the Vegas restaurant. CDMX — Ciudad de México — is the abbreviation for Mexico City.
The restaurant’s English-language website currently lists three locations in California and one in Texas but none for Nevada. La Popular also no longer appears among the dining options on the Palms website. Popular review sites do not show reviews for the restaurant after late August.
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