Laurinburg, North Carolina

Guerrero on the plate.
Carolina on the porch.

Breakfast, brunch, lunch and traditional pastries — Guerrero-inspired cooking with a pinch of southern comfort.

☼ Porch lights on, ¡A COMER!

See the menu Call to order

Elote and grilled shrimp on a clay plate, with salsa being poured from a painted jug

Find us

215 S Main St
Laurinburg, NC 28352

Call us

(910) 852-2570

Open

Tuesday – Sunday
8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Our story

A comer — come and eat.

Azotea means rooftop. It is the place in a Mexican house where the family ends up: laundry drying, somebody cooking, everybody talking. That is the feeling we cook for.

Our kitchen takes its lead from Guerrero, on Mexico's Pacific coast — the home of green pozole, chiles rellenos, and a way of cooking built on chiles, corn and time. Then we let a little of the American South in: grits, biscuits, the habit of feeding people too much.

Porch lights on, ¡A comer!

Breakfast runs into brunch, brunch runs into lunch, and there are traditional pastries in between. We open at eight and the kitchen closes at two, six days a week. Sit inside, or out on the patio when the weather is kind. Come hungry.

Green pozole with radish, corn and tortilla chips in a shallow bowl

Oaxaca cheese stuffed poblano peppers under salsa ranchera with crème fraîche and black beans

The one to order

Chiles Rellenos

Oaxaca cheese stuffed poblano peppers, salsa ranchera, crème fraîche, and one side — served with warm hand-pressed corn tortillas.

Call to order

The menu

What comes out of the kitchen.

Breakfast and brunch through the morning, then tacos, tortas and quesadillas for lunch. Everything is made to order.

Breakfast

Served with one side

ChilaquilesSoft and crunchy tortilla in red guajillo chile sauce, topped with asada, sour cream, queso fresco, onion, epazote and a fried egg. Green sauce available.

MolletesVeracruzan open-faced sandwich, toasted and topped with black beans, Oaxaca cheese, pico de gallo, radish and avocado.

OmelettesTwo-egg western style — El Chavo, El Gordo, La Guereja, or the Herbivore with onion, tomato, zucchini, epazote and mushroom.

Breakfast TacosAn order of three. Red Eggs-n-Ham, Silkie Hen, La Bandera, Verde, or Tater Tacs with hashbrowns and bacon.

Lunch

From late morning

TacosAsada, chorizo, pastor, chicharrón, pollo — with onion, cilantro and lemon. Beef tongue and pork tripe also.

TortasMexican sandwich on a homemade bolillo roll, served with a side. The Clássica, the Brava with grilled pineapple, or the Chicken Fly.

QuesadillasAn order of three corn tortillas with one side. Taqueras, Rajada, Championa with mushroom, or Brasas.

SaladsThe Power, the Mestiza with baked chicken, or the C-zar on a toasted bolillo roll.

Sides & sauces

Add to anything

SidesPotatoes with onions, french fries, toreados chiles, pickled veg, corn on the cob, red rice, beans, hashbrown, baked vegetables, guacamole, pico de gallo.

House-made saucesChimichurri, chipotle crema and cincho ranch, made in our kitchen.

Pastries & the little ones

All day

Traditional pastriesMexican sweet breads and pastries, baked for the counter. Ask what came out this morning.

For the little onesAges 12 and under — quesadilla, chicken tenders, mini waffles with whipped cream and fruit, or scrambled eggs and cheesy grits. Juice included.

The food

Straight off the comal.

Picaditas on a painted clay plate, topped with salsa, crema, radish and avocado — Picaditas

A tray of battered poblano peppers stuffed with Oaxaca cheese, fresh out of the pan — Poblanos stuffed and battered, back of house

Red pork pozole topped with cabbage, radish and cilantro — Pozole rojo de puerco

Two Oaxaca cheese stuffed poblano peppers under salsa ranchera with crème fraîche, avocado, radish and black beans on a painted clay plate — Chiles rellenos, salsa ranchera

Crisp fried wonton shells filled with charred meat, pickled red cabbage, scallion and cilantro — Wonton tacos

A sweet brunch plate with strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate drizzle — Something sweet for brunch

Visit

On South Main Street.

We are on Main Street in downtown Laurinburg, with seating outside when the weather is kind. Kitchen closes at 2:00 pm — we are a breakfast, brunch and lunch house. Walk in, or call ahead and we will have it ready.

Address