The influence shows in dishes like slow-roasted pork glazed with honey and served with mascarpone polenta and orange-parsley salad, or pan-roasted chicken with a crustless potato tart in rosemary jus.

Flour tortillas filled with slow-roasted pork come with poblano chilies and a white dollop of the slightly sour Mexican cream from which the restaurant takes its name.

If Hollywood producers deemed restaurants as ripe for emotional drama as, say, high school sports, there would be a half-dozen competing projects in the works about Colors, which has more than slow-roasted pork, poached hake and curried goat.

But the most satisfying food was the simplest: tiny corn cakes served with succulent shredded beef; hearts of palm mingled with orange and avocado in a refreshing salad; and classic slow-roasted pork served with traditional black beans, white rice and delicious, sticky fried plantains.

Q Map It's technically not a taquería, but you do wrap the carnitas (slow-roasted pork) in corn tortillas, so it's close enough.

It was certainly up there, and my other visits indicate that someone in your party should always order the slow-roasted pork special - these vary, and are all good.

The region has always had specialties: slow-roasted pork, chicken stewed with okra and manioc, dried beef cooked with mashed pumpkin.

To make tacos for a crowd, you can't do better than to begin with slow-roasted pork, called carnitas.

P Map This open-air branch of the renowned carnitas (slow-roasted pork) chain serves up some of the best cheap eats in Cabo - which is why locals flock here, especially on weekends.

A recipe for slow-roasted Korean pork turns anyone with an oven and a few hours into a chef.