Happy Capitol Hill Spring — Mezcaleria Oaxaca’s Patio Cielo is open for the season

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(Image: Mercado Luna)

Another Capitol Hill sign of spring is blooming. Mezcaleria Oaxaca’s Patio Cielo reopened for the season over the weekend.

The space is one of Capitol Hill’s most fun decks and crowns the restaurant which just marked its tenth year on Capitol Hill.

CHS reported here on the 2014 opening of Mezcaleria Oaxaca as the ambitious Graham Baba-designed project from the Dominguez-Perez family and sibling to their La Carta De Oaxaca original took shape out of a former auto garage.

Today, Mezcaleria Oaxaca has grown into the Mercado Luna family of businesses at E Pine and Summit which includes the restaurant, a taco window walk-up, and Choncho’s Churros. Above it all, Patio Cielo is again open for sunny and not so sunny days above E Pine.

Meanwhile, another Oaxacan joint is busy with a new project. Melrose at Pine’s La Cocina Oaxaqueña is working on a tasty expansion. More on that, soon.

As for neighborhood decks of note, many of Capitol Hill’s pandemic-era street patios are here to stay. You can also find popular outdoor setups away from the street and sidewalks behind, over, and above joints ranging from Captain Blacks to Terra Plata to The Lookout to Linda’s to Saint John’s to Vacilando to Monsoon.

Mercado Luna and Mezcaleria Oaxaca’s Patio Cielo is now open weekends at 422 E Pine. Learn more at mercadoluna.com.