La Vecina has launched a new Sunday brunch menu featuring authentic Mexican dishes with a morning twist, the Newport Restaurant Group announced Tuesday.
The brunch menu, created by Executive Chef Mariana Gonzalez-Trasvina, is available Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the restaurant located at 24 Washington Square.
Menu items include chilaquiles with tortilla chips, fried egg, salsa verde, crema, queso fresco, onions and cilantro. A breakfast burrito features scrambled eggs, home fries, fundido, chipotle aioli, pinto beans, onions and cilantro.
Other offerings include the La Vecina omelet with corn, spinach, tomatoes, salsa roja, crema and queso fresco, and carnitas hash with a fried egg, shredded potato, onions, cilantro, poblanos, habanero salsa and cotija cheese.
Steak and eggs comes with flank steak, house salsa, two sunny-side-up eggs and a choice of home fries or rice. The menu also includes tres leches French toast with sliced brioche, whipped cream, berries and dulce de leche, and fried chicken and churros with chipotle maple and agave sea salt butter.
La Vecina’s brunch menu includes specialty drinks such as the Cadillac margarita with San Matias grand anejo tequila, lime, agave, orange juice and a Grand Marnier float. The ginger margarita contains reposado tequila with ginger simple syrup, lemon and lime.
The mezcalita is made with mezcal, pineapple, mint, lime, elderflower, amarena cherry and aquafaba.
Non-alcoholic options include three agua fresca varieties: verde with pineapple, basil, mint, cilantro, serrano and agave; roja with watermelon and lime sugar; and blanca with horchata, rice, canela, coconut milk, sweetened milk and vanilla.
Customers can place orders by visiting www.lavecinataqueria.com or calling 401-324-5160.
La Vecina is part of Newport Restaurant Group’s portfolio of restaurants throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The employee-owned company operates 16 locations including Castle Hill Inn, The Mooring and 22 Bowen’s Wine Bar & Grille in Newport.