Javier's Diner

If you’re craving Mexican diner eats, you have more than a few options, including a good number of Greek joints that also sideline in some pretty solid Mexican food. But it's possible that you can’t do better than Javier’s, in the Berkeley neighborhood at 38th and Tennyson. The family restaurant has been serving good classic Den-Mex dishes for a half-century running. With generation-spanning recipes, an outdoor patio and some of the best chilaquiles in town, this is one of the holdouts of the old neighborhood — better known as the Northside — that we hope lives on in perpetuity.