This cozy Tex-Mex spot serves up mouthwatering tacos and creative cocktails in a lively setting, making it the perfect hangout for a relaxed brunch or casual dinner.
"This East Village Texan spot is great at any hour, but we especially like coming for brunch, which feels like a collab between IHOP and Dolly Parton with floral wallpaper and mismatched ‘70s-looking lamps. Get a brunch cocktail and a few kolaches to start, then stock up on tacos. We especially like the smoked bacon and egg, bean and cheese, and carne guisada varieties, all of which come on fresh flour tortillas. They also serve a rotating menu of incredibly light and fluffy doughnuts on weekends—and they’ll wind up being what you remember most." - neha talreja, will hartman, bryan kim, kenny yang
"Yellow Rose may very well have the best flour tortillas in NYC, which is already an accomplishment. In a move that's almost unfair (to all other restaurants), they do donuts just as well. At this Tex-Mex spot in the East Village, donuts are only available during brunch on the weekends, and they’re incredibly light and fluffy. The chocolate one tastes a little bitter, like dark chocolate, and the hominy sugar one is mostly savory with just a hint of sugar. " - neha talreja, kenny yang, carina finn koeppicus, carlo mantuano, sonal shah
"When you can no longer tolerate rapid messages from Daniel on the accounts team, stop by the Yellow Rose takeout window for a bean and cheese taco. This 3rd Avenue takeout spot serves central Texan food, including some fantastic flour tortillas that could qualify as a snack on their own. Yellow Rose’s freshly-pressed tortilla are blistered, chewy, and adhere to their fillings without becoming soggy. Plus, they come wrapped tightly in tin foil, which is ideal for traveling. The bean and cheese is our favorite, but all the tacos are delicious." - hannah albertine
"Walking into Yellow Rose on a weekend morning is the closest you’ll get in NYC to pulling over at a pit stop in Texas. Before you receive your orange tray of excellent breakfast tacos, you’ll hear Willie Nelson playing through the speakers, spot a poster of Dolly Parton glamorously overseeing business from above, and notice the bags of stone-ground grits and heirloom beans on a shelf in front of a saloon-style swinging door. In addition to options like smoked bacon and egg, bean and cheese, or carne guisada tacos on fresh flour tortillas, Yellow Rose serves a rotating menu of glazed and sugar-covered doughnuts for breakfast on weekends, all of which rank among the best we’ve eaten as of late." - carina finn koeppicus
"New York City “Either by fate or divine tortilla intervention, my favorite pop-up of the year and I ended up settling in the same NYC neighborhood. Now, in its full-time Manhattan location, Yellow Rose is serving food that’s largely missing from the city’s restaurant ecosystem: Texan cuisine. Namely, some outrageously good flour tortillas. They’re blistered, chewy, and adhere to their fillings without becoming soggy. Eating Yellow Rose’s food makes me simultaneously smitten with flour in a way I didn’t know was possible, and angry to be an East Coaster. I’m planning on ordering enough bean and cheese tacos, pollo verde tacos, and bowls of spicy beef chili to fully stain my wooden table with their drippings.” - Hannah Albertine, NYC Staff Writer" - team infatuation
