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Neighborhood Molino

A neighborhood molino & tortillería project in the RGV. Grinding heirloom maíz � pa la gente.

04/07/2026

🌼 feliz primavera 🌼 two molino workshops are live now — link in bio — have some exciting programming coming later this year, soon 💋 xo

sliding scale $20-40

* community tix available, no one will be turned away due to lack of funds, please send us a dm *

12/13/2025

our 2025 is almost coming to a close. this past year was very eventful — we hosted 10 public workshops , several private ones, overall teaching hundreds of people to use our molino, metate, make nixtamal, and ferment. we traveled to learn from other molineres and cultural leaders across the US how to better our work here in tx. we let many trained community members and friends grind their own nixtamal on their own … our baby molino ground thousands of masa for our people

09/19/2024

holiss— neighborhood molino 2.0 is live.
un molino comunitario / a community mill
adentro de .us

rsvp in bio

12/06/2022

Taco bowls / taco salad —
🌮🥙
It’s ancestor is a Ta-cup / a wonky looking sope deep-fried originating from the Frito company, from the stolen foods of la gente de San Antonio and beyond. TXMX cuisine is wild as many people see it thru a dystopian lens of “authentic” Mexican cuisine. It’s a cuisine that has stolen ideas and recipes from gente and appropriated by white business owners for white consumption - in turn making some abominations and some interesting “Mexican” foods.

I imagine in days pre-Maseca, how delicious a taco bowl/cup could have been - a nixtamalized + fried taco shell coated with ‘Frito’ seasoning (cumin, onion/garlic powder, dry chili powder, msg, salt) topped with guisados caseros. Maybe it wasn’t, but it gained nationwide popularity and has had our gente making this food item too, for so long, for some reason.

and I had lots of fun at the tiianguis put on by the magical ✨ .in.situ - bonding con comunidad + doing our riff on the classic with a 2-tone heirloom masa shell, persian-inspired arroz con pollo, with nopal and elote pickles. TXMX es radical, divertido, y pa la gente tambien! No solo pa gabachos.

Some words + history by el mero mero

07/11/2022

hi Austin —

super excited & honored to be part of .in.situ ‘s OAXACA PRESENTE evento - offering some classic pre-hispanic drinks & snax

it’s been a while since doing eventos due to continuous research you can taste daily over — but this is too special to miss. ✨ Danzantes, música, tlayudas, pan dulce, bebidas, nieves, medicina, tianguis, tatus, comunidad y más ! .in.situ is a xingona for weaving it all together. See ya there niñxs 🌽

04/28/2022

Tetela archives— 🔺📐⚠️🔻

Gracias / for highlighting this beautiful food.

If you get lucky, you might find them appear as a daily special … they’re a chinga to make.

Link in bio for full article.

02/22/2022

Tetelas were invented by the Mixtec people of Oaxaca over 1500 years ago — they’re one of our favorite dishes to make. The ingenuity and creativity of our ancestors is continuously inspiring. We like to think they had fun creating these masa shapes too.

Here’s some BTS of some we made recently

01/28/2022

Hi again! We took a much needed break to settle in to Austin, and to continue reimagining what we’re doing in this ever changing food landscape. Also, we never formally introduced ourselves here, so this is us!

Andrés is the person who was dedicated full-time to Neighborhood Molino, researching, creating recipes, cooking your orders, doing online platicas, all the graphic design, and who’s baby this is. Andrés is now working as ’s Director of Masa Development + Fermentation.

Cristina is who y’all probably met at any of our pop-ups, taking y’alls orders, refining the recipes, creating our incredible desserts, helping run our social media, and the calm, logical brain of the two. She’s now baking with

As we settle into our new lives, we’re keeping the spirit of Neighborhood Molino close. This account will continue to be a platform for our continuous education and exploration of what is possible to do with this magical ingredient. 🌽

We’re excited to continue exploring our interpretation of Texas Mexican cooking, honoring our roots, our region’s native histories, our nostalgia, and challenging ourselves to reimagine what it can look like. We are so lucky to be surrounded by so many inspiring people here in Austin seeking to build and nourish community. Gracias for following our journey & learning with us.

Con amor,
Andrés y Cristina

12/17/2021

Machetes / Taquiza — tomorrow (12-4p or sold out)

Experience four heirloom maíz varietals in one rowdy dish — pair it with a smoky Pear & Chipotle Tepache. This is the last food event we’re having in the RGV. After this, we got a lot of packing to do!

Gracias RGV for everything ! 💖

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12/14/2021

Un taco de barbacoa de cachete bien servido. From this past weekend at the taquiza

We like to smoke ours gently w/ pure mezquite. Seasoned with the STX holy trinity of toasted black pepper, cumin, and garlic. We then let it simmer in its own fat overnight till its falls apart with a gentle touch.

Paired on our hand-pressed heirloom corn tortillas — ni se diga!

Doing it one last time this Saturday from 12-4pm !

12/06/2021

TAQUIZA 🌮 Semilla Coffee Lab]
our last events of the year, last events before we move, last chance for you to get your masa fix!

Semilla Coffee Lab] is curating some rad Mexican tragos & we’ll have some proper tacos on hand pressed heirloom tortillas.

TACOS
- smoked barbacoa
- wild shrooms 🍄 (veg) (+ chicatana 🐜)
- roasted calabacitas 🌱 (v)

TRAGOS
- pear & chipotle tepache 🌶
- champurrado iced latte 🌽
- guayaba y amaica 🌺

Next 2 Saturdays (11th & 18th)
4pm - 8pm (or sold out)

Live-music by

12/01/2021

Hey friends, here’s an overdue NM update ****
We’re moving to Austin! This is both really exciting and really hard to announce. Over the last year and a half, we’ve fallen in love with our community here in the RGV. This region we call home continues to inspire us & we don’t take that for granted.

Neighborhood Molino was born out of necessity in not having a steady job during the pandemic. There was no clear vision, our journey was formed along the way and trail and error. At times, we got optimistic about wanting to open something and discouraged by the hard truth that we’re broke young cooks dreaming of a radically different restaurant industry.

For our Austin friends — expect pop-ups, collabs, wholesale, and who knows what else. Keep us busy!

We have a few popups lined up the month of December here in the RGV, and we’ll be moving in January.

con amor,
Andrés & Cristina

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McAllen, TX

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http://neighborhoodmolino.com/

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