La Lucha

As Mexicans,the owners of La Lucha grew up not only watching but also feeling and most importantly loving Lucha Libre. Going to the Arena was a ritual full of expectations and emotion. Being there with their parents, brothers/sisters and friends, surrounded by strangers, all of them supporting their own particular idol, it didn’t matter if he was “Rudo” or “Tecnico”, good or bad, El Santo or...

Prepare to get cozy; this place is tiny, meaning you might have to squeeze by people to get to your seat.

Feeling the lucha libre spirit? The restaurant sells some cheeky T-shirts sporting Mexican wrestling themes.

La Lucha Restaurant Review: It only seemed like a matter of time until a lucha libre-themed taqueria fired up its stove in New York. With colorful Mexican wresting masks decorating the interior, this East Village joint specializes in the tacos of Mexico City. Don’t ask for a burrito, lest you want to get put in a full nelson. And what they do serve is very serviceable: pork tacos come one at a...

With the theme of Mexican wrestling, La Lucha serves taqueria style foods to a city starving for Mexican street foods.

Fighting the good lucha to keep the E. Vill fueled on taco goodness. Splits the difference between Zaragoza and Mercadito, serves up refined Mexico City street food. Tacos ordered by the threes, honor El Santo with steak, chicharron, and chorizo, or the Blue Demon with bistec and melted Oaxaca cheese on pita. Petite, festive spot, with purple benches seemingly appropriated from somebody's f@!k...

Kitschy machismo and Mexcian street food collide at this tiny taqueria in the East Village. Once settled in one of the 16 seats, it’s impossible not to notice the theme: lucha libre, known in the...