Popular Las Vegas Mexican chef opening a 4th restaurant
Leticia Mitchell, the chef-owner of some of the most popular Mexican restaurants in Las Vegas, known for her mole chilaquiles, birria consommé coiled with ramen noodles and tacos stuffed with tender pork belly, is launching her latest spot Wednesday. Leticia’s Cocina & Cantina opens at 11 a.m. at Boulder Station.
The debut marks the fourth Mitchell restaurant operating in Vegas, following Leticia’s Cocina in Santa Fe Station (like Boulder, a Station Casinos property); Letty’s de Leticia’s Cocina, an Arts District place named one of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Top 100 restaurants for 2024; and Carmelita’s Mar & Tierra on East Charleston Boulevard.
Sue Kiple is Mitchell’s business partner in owning and operating the restaurants.
“I am passionate about giving each and every guest the real traditional, fresh flavors of Mexico, including our warm hospitality,” Mitchell said in a Wednesday statement.
Three-course special
Among the menu highlights at the new Leticia’s: housemade tortillas, birria tuetanos (bone marrow) seafood molcajete, menudo, roasted poblano cream soup, quesa tacos, queso fundido, elote, sopapillas, margaritas and tequila flights.
Leticia’s serves breakfast (all day), lunch and dinner, and Saturday and Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The daily Comida Corrida menu a three-course special for $18.
Starting on the Strip
The new Leticia’s seats 165, replacing Guadalajara restaurant, which closed at Boulder Station in May to allow for the buildout of its successor. In the past year, Station Casinos has introduced two other locals favorites — China Mama and Lindo Michoacan — at Palace Station.
After years of working in kitchens on and off the Strip, Mitchell launched her first Leticia’s Cocina in 2009 on Norman Rockwell Lane in northwest Vegas. She later opened a location in Tivoli Village. Both closed in 2019. Another Leticia’s Cocina shut during the pandemic in the now-demolished Fiesta Henderson.
Visit leticiascocina.com.
Contact Johnathan L. Wright at jwright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @JLWTaste on Instagram.
This story has been updated from its original version.
