EAT UP MOUNT EDEN!

This Bronx corridor is flush with treats to sate your soul

You won’t find many international chain eateries near the border of the Bronx neighborhoods of Mount Eden and Claremont, where the B line stops at 170th St./Grand Concourse. Like most in this area, these three shops are all independently owned and operated.

Tacos and tables

Nuevo Tulcingo Azteca — new to the E. 170th St. shopping corridor as of last summer — is one of the few spots on this part of the strip with a proper dining room.

This comes in handy, because even though Mexican specialities like sesame-topped sandwiches called cemitas ($8), or meat-and-cheese-topped tostadas (three for $10), are easily transportable, they’re always better just off the griddle than out of styrofoam.

That’s especially true of Nuevo Tulcingo Azteca’s chimichanga ($10), a flour tortilla filled with Mexican cheeses and meats that’s rolled and perfectly deep-fried. Like its bean-and-rice-filled cousin the burrito ($8.50), the chimichanga may technically be Mexican-American, but there’s a reason it’s on the cover of Nuevo Tulcingo Azteca’s takeout menu: It’s a beauty.

Even the tacos here, the ultimate to-go food, are best eaten immediately, especially when they’re served with an endless supply of red and spicy-green salsas, as they are here. They’re three for $9 and come with a range of fillings, including eggs and slivered cactus, roasted goat, pig’s ear and beef tongue. Nuevo Tulcingo Azteca: 134 E. 170th St., near Wythe Place, Bronx; (718) 588-0803

Pan-latin pastries

La Rosa Bakery has been a go-to on E. 170th St. for decades, serving Dominican-style cakes, Latin-American pastries and freshly baked loaves of soft, white Cuban-style bread ($2). It’s often still warm, hence the words pan caliente, or “hot bread” in Spanish, on the sign above the door of Eduardo Macia’s hallway-sized shop.

Cakes are also made often and to order — a small is $14.75 — and there are bread puddings, coconut pineapple cake and an array of pastries filled with guava, including tiny flaky empanadas that are also laced with sweet cheese ($1.75 for three). In a fridge in the back, you’ll find the stash of tres leches cakes, including a fruity $3.25 version in chinola, or passionfruit.

There are also American-style cookies, cupcakes and mega-slabs of brownies ($2) generously glazed with chocolate and doused with rainbow sprinkles. La Rosa Bakery: 155 E. 170th St., near Wythe Place, Bronx; (718) 293-4153

Corner cucina

Here’s one way to deal with any hunger pangs that arise as you’re leaving the 170th St. station: Take the northeastern exit onto E. 171st St., and you’ll come up right outside 1454 MC Deli Grocery Corp.

Formerly known as Hato Viejo, this decadesold bodega got a new owner, a renovation and an expansion last year, says staffer Anthony Tilin (known to regulars simply by his surname), who has worked the counter since he was 13 and his father ran the place. With the upgrade came more groceries and a real kitchen cooking Dominican homestyle food, the latter of which draws long lines at lunchtime.

Each day, a trio of cooks prepare more than a dozen hot meals beyond the usual bodega sandwiches — which are also good here — including pepper steak in thick gravy ($9); pork chops; garlicky, brick-red Dominican longaniza sausage and fried plantains; stewed goat, chicken, or oxtails (above, left); barbecued ribs; fried fish filets; whole grilled fish; soupy beans; and chicharron de pollo, or crispy little chunks of boneless, seasoned fried chicken. Most small orders served over one of three kinds of rice run from $8 to $9. 1454 MC Deli Grocery Corp.: 1454 Grand Concourse, at E. 171st St., Bronx; (718) 538-5127