Taqueria Jalisco is a must for tacos and enchiladas. An East Boston mainstay for Mexican cuisine, this colorful cafe offers Enchiladas in three renditions based on your choice of sauce: Rojas, Verdes, and En Mole. If we’re not ordering up Carne Asada or Birria Tacos, we’re drawn to the surprisingly spicy Verdes Enchiladas. The sauce’s sharp, acidic flavor provides an excellent counterpoint to the melted cheese and fall-apart-tender chicken.

With locations in East Boston’s Eagle Hill and Orient Heights neighborhoods, Angela’s Cafe built its reputation on mole sauce. The Mexican restaurant’s scratch-made take on Puebla’s signature condiment—created with chocolate, bananas, sesame seeds, peanuts, and many more delicious ingredients—takes center stage in the Enchiladas de Mole Poblano. Imagine corn tortillas stuffed with mole-smothered pork, chicken, or veggies, topped with Mexican cheese and onion. You don’t have to be a mole superfan to enjoy Angela’s enchiladas, though: You can also order them with green or red sauce.

At the six Chilacates locations spread throughout Boston and Chestnut Hill, you can order three Enchiladas with your choice of grilled chicken, chicken tinga, lengua, al pastor, carnitas, pork in chile verde, potatoes and chorizo, and veggies. We love the smokiness that Chicken Tinga brings to the cheesy dish, but whichever filling you choose will be tightly rolled into corn tortillas, buried under gooey cheese, and topped with a zingy verde sauce that cuts the fat. It’s no wonder that Chilacates has built an empire on tacos and enchiladas—they do Mexican street food so well.