Dining
BY ANNA MANESS
La Cocina serves Mex- Italian cuisine to Round Rock for over 16 years Crediting its continued success to loyal customers and passed-down family recipes, La Cocina Bar & Grill has served Round Rock for over 16 years. About the owners After working at an Italian restaurant west of Los Angeles, Ismael Diaz moved his family to Texas in 2007 and bought a restaurant in Round Rock. Ismael rebranded the restaurant as La Cocina Bar & Grill in January 2008, alongside his wife, Amelia, and then-21-year-old daughter, Lissette, who’s now the front manager. “We have our Mexican dishes and we have our Italian dishes,” Lissette said. “We use a lot of the same herbs and spices in both cuisines, but we like to keep everything kind of separated.” The Diaz family, including Lissette’s two siblings, Kiara and Ishmael, are fully involved at La Cocina. Being from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Lissette said many of the dishes stem from family recipes. What’s on the menu • Enchiladas Suizas: a chicken or cheese enchilada covered in a creamy tomatillo sauce • Camarones Ala Diabla: linguine pasta with sauteed shrimp in a spicy marinara sauce • Enchiladas Italiano: a ricotta cheese and spin- ach-stu ed crepe “Every meal that is made here is made on the spot when you order, and everything is made homemade from our own recipes that we have grown up with in our households,” Lissette said.
From left, Amelia, Ismael and Lissette Diaz pose inside La Cocina, their family-owned restaurant in Round Rock.
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Chicken Enchiladas Suizas ($11.50) is topped with a creamy tomatillo sauce and served with rice and beans.
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