Posted on 08/27/2016 10:13:28 AM PDT by EveningStar
There are over 38,000 Mexican restaurants across the United States. Mexican food is the most popular international cuisine in the U.S., representing 42% of all ethnic food sales. It’s represented on the menus of one in every 10 restaurants in the United States. With so many Mexican restaurants to choose from, the real question becomes how to spot authentic Mexican food.
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Last time I ate at the Chinese Buffet it was packed with more Mexicans than gringos. My advice is if the parking lot of the restaurant is full around meantime, it is probably, but not always, a good place to eat.
El Gallo Giro in Memphis. The tortas rock.
I like Pico Pica (hot) for most Mexican food. Not every store here in Arizona stocks it, so we buy 6 or 8 bottles at a time when we find it.
Don’t want it. I’ll take Tex-Mex, but don’t even want that often.
You’re lucky. Occasionally we have a real mom-and-pop Mexican restaurant here, a no-frills hole-in-the-wall; there was one that lasted decades and was famous all over the area. But usually they don’t last long :-(
-JT
Wanting some local fare, we walked up the hill away from the main strip along the ocean and found a local taco place, or so we thought. Open-air (no roof yet) and benches to eat on. We were the only anglos there. I stood in front of the menu puzzled at main item, Los Perrones. No mention of tacos.
Perro is dog. Dog meat, I thought? My Spanish is pretty good but I could tell this was a local colloquialism that I might not understand unless it was explained to me. After questioning the guy at the counter, he explained it that these weren't just any tacos at his joint but peronnes, which means the big dogs, as in the best tacos in town. And boy, were they ever good. Delicious.
I realized it was like going into McDonald's to get a hamburger and coming out with a Big Mac instead.
Don’t ever try the one at KFC. The original recipe breading on a piece of chicken fried steak/chicken is just weird.
Sadies the restaurant in Albuquerque is a great place for New Mexican food.
That car’s got a tracker on it.
I went to a place like that in the Dallas area. Then one day I showed up and they had a sign on the door saying, “Closed to attend the protest in Dallas.” “The protest” was a bunch of illegal aliens carrying Mexican flags. I never went back.
They did eventually open another in Westwood, KS, with the same management, and many of the same employees, though it took several years. I believe that there are now 5 in the KC area!
Mark
Any Texan will tell you that the first criteria for a good Mexican restaurant is the chips and salsa. Things got a little out of hand at this Dallas restaurant one night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7-fo7Rkg0
Dallas, Texas (Isael Rojas) — According to Isael Rojas, the guy who recorded the fight. It all started because the chips were $5 bucks and the pack of wild beast wanted the green salsa instead of the red. The struggle is real when picking out good salsa. I’m Mexican-American so I know how serious it can get when choosing salsa but I’d never fight someone over it.
Once the chicks started fighting. One of the guys who was trying to separate the girls gets himself involved when he pushes away a big dark guy. Well, that didn’t go well for him because he got chairs and fist thrown at him. At one point the angry mob had the guy cornered inside of the restaurant.
I guess the guys got tired of fighting and throwing around chairs because the fight just fizzled out. The bad news is these people tore up a perfectly good Mexican eatery. Animals.
Read more here: https://www.facebook.com/isael.rojas....
Tijuana has some pretty good Mexican food.
Try Villa Marina or Los Arcos.
Agree you must avoid a chain restaurant. Mom and pop places are the best.
Truth is authentic Mexican is the same as authentic Polish, German, Italian, whatever....poor people cooking the best meals they could with the best available to them.
It’s the gravy.....the brown gravy.....I hate the red sauce and have sent my food back if it didn’t have the chili gravy on it. I’ve tried to make it myself and no matter what I do I can’t seem to cook it long enough to get the flour taste out. I wish I could taste my grandmothers’ dough and fat menu one more time, except hers was far from bland. That woman could cook. We used to buy the Patio Mexican Dinners too......just a thing of the past now I guess. Can’t find them......and we ate them in recent years too, not just when we were younger.......sigh
I don’t think they’re made anymore - I haven’t seen them in the store in about 8 years.
Apparently Costco used to have a ‘Don Miguel’ brand; maybe they still do. I’ve tried the ‘Annie’s’ but they’re just not the same - probably too healthy to be like the old ones ;-)
Here’s a thread where folks are waxing nostalgic about them:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=614401
-JT
I prefer red to green, myself.
I think I’ve seen that at our ethnic store; I’ll try it. But you can buy it on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Pico-Pica-Hot-Sauce-Ounce/dp/B0000GGHZQ
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