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Even the Maya tradition of pollo pibil is still prepared as it was in colonial times-wrapping the chicken in banana leaves to cook in a covered earthen pit.

Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen 2006

Even the Maya tradition of pollo pibil is still prepared as it was in colonial times-wrapping the chicken in banana leaves to cook in a covered earthen pit.

Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen 2006

Even the Maya tradition of pollo pibil is still prepared as it was in colonial times-wrapping the chicken in banana leaves to cook in a covered earthen pit.

Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen 2006

It's probably the most genteel restaurant in the Westlake district, favored by politicians and gourmands from the nearby Mexican Consulate, and one of the best places in town to taste regional Mexican cooking - for Yucatecan snacks like panuchos, vaporcitos and the Lebanese-Yucatecan kibi, as well as for the cuisine's most famous dish, cochinito pibil, which is rubbed with spice, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked until it practically collapses under its own weight.

LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

It's probably the most genteel restaurant in the Westlake district, favored by politicians and gourmands from the nearby Mexican Consulate, and one of the best places in town to taste regional Mexican cooking -- for Yucatecan snacks like panuchos, vaporcitos and the Lebanese-Yucatecan kibi, as well as for the cuisine's most famous dish, cochinito pibil, which is rubbed with spice, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked until it practically collapses under its own weight.

LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

BTW the word "pibil" does not have an accent mark.

Cochinita Pib�l 1919

And don’t forget the cochinita pibil, which is pork baked preferably underground in banana leaves.

Mérida 2006

And don’t forget the cochinita pibil, which is pork baked preferably underground in banana leaves.

Mérida 2006

And don’t forget the cochinita pibil, which is pork baked preferably underground in banana leaves.

Mérida 2006

Try the burrito de cochinita pibil (20 pesos), the cheese enchiladas (3 for 30 pesos) and the tamarindo agua fresco (10 pesos).

John Keeling's 2009 Restaurant Guide (Chapala, Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta) 2009