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2 tablespoons peanut butter.

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1/2 small onion, finely chopped.1 plum tomato, diced.Pinch of saffron threads, crumbled.

1 cup arborio rice.2 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth.

2 confit duck legs, skinned and meat coarsely shredded.

1/4 cup thinly sliced chorizo.Mi Tocaya loosely translates to "my namesake," and Dávila's intentions here are personal: This is restaurant as scrapbook—each dish on the menu is rooted in memory.

The salsa Veracruzana that Dávila tasted during summer visits to Casitas is reimagined here as gremolata spooned over crisp fried sweetbreads.Briny mussels, popped in their shells and piled with cabbage and radish, are a vibrant iteration of her mother's posole recipe.

There's even a standard-bearer steak burrito—all gooey cheese and salty beef griddled in a flour tortilla—a nod to the Mexican restaurants the chef grew up around in suburban Chicago.Dávila doesn't beat her chest for hyper-regional focus or even rigorous authenticity.