I'll eat any Mexican food, any where, any time.

Traditional? Not a burrito or taco to be seen...

Went here https://www.restauranteelcardenal.com/breakfast-el-cardenal.html for the famous breakfast one morning, every meal is served with a selection of handmade breads, the hot chocolate (to die for) and the clotted cream.
I had the escamole omelet. Mayan food might not exist, but Aztec food still does in some places...

La Superica in Santa Barbara on Milpas. You can eat the tortillas by themselves, they're so good. There's a reason there's always a line out the door. But it's always worth the wait. (Just don't forget: cash only!)

I will keep that in mind next time I am up that way. Thanks.


There's the tourist trap in Olvera street. Three to fours Mexican ladies make them in front of you while the lines are normally down the street. I haven't been there in a very long time so I don't know if that restaurant still exist. There was a couple of small markets that serve typical Mexican food on the E LA side of the general hospital that had the hand made tortilla. They are getting increasingly difficult to find unless you know a Mexican grand ma. Almost all of my Mexican American friends buy them in bags now. They only know how to eat them but not how to make it.

I hate this topic.

A lifelong Southern Californian, I love Mexican food. There is an area in Placentia that the wife and I went to that had a number of excellent, mom and pop restaurants. Now being in central Florida, its the opposite. Its not easy to find good, consistent Mexican food. We are starting to find options, but it has taken six years. What is really funny too, is that, to the person, they want to find good Mexican food or if they have been here a bit, the thing they miss the most is Mexican food.

And I really, really wish craigster59 would stop posting the Tres Hombres food pic and saying how he goes there. It makes my tastebuds sad.

There aren't a huge number of Mexican Food places around here....and it seems that they are all owned by the same family.
The menu at the one I go to five miles away...is almost identical to those 50 miles away.

Different names..but very similar offerings.

Love street tamales. Tacos, I favor the traditional cilantro and onions toppings only.

You are lucky dogs having a lot of options.

With our slim pickings in Akron/Canton I have narrowed it down one restuarant. On the upside, most folks do not speak english save the waitresses there.

You can eat and drink big for two for $75 out the door and it's traditional Tex-Mex (I think that describes it). I do fajitas with the extra side goodies. About $20 for that plate.

On Mole, we have one of the high end Mexican places, Xochi, that specializes in 8 different mole sauces. They have many dishes, but you order them with the moles of your choice.

Cuchara (Spoon) is an authentic Mexico city style food.

Lupe Tortilla is one of the best "Tex-Mex" places. "Es-Preetty goood", is there motto. We go to the original one and you can see how the places had each room added over time.

The funny thing about Lupe Tortilla is after the death of the man who started it, there was a feud in the family. It is split into two restaurant chains, "Lupe Tortilla" and "The Original Lupe Tortilla". They are basically identical.

I always say, if you throw a rock in Houston and miss a church, you'll hit a Mexican joint or Taco Truck.

I've always said (mostly as a joke, but not completely joking) that Mexican (Tex-Mex really) restaurants have about 10-15 ingredients, and the different items are based on which ingredients and how they are mixed. Beef, pork, chicken, avocado, red sauce, green sauce, sour cream, cheese, flour tortilla, corn tortilla, corn meal, rice, beans, pico de gallo (not sure if salsa is separate or could fall under the pico umbrella).

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That's because from Texas to Cali we're practically northern Mexico (OK, we've actually got folks from all over central and South America).

I'm guessing NZ doesn't have nearly as many illegal or legal Mexican immigrants. It's a MUCH longer walk to get there than it is to CANT (CA, AZ, NM, TX). And if they tried to take a page out of their Spanish speaking brothers in the islands south of FL, the boat ride would be a bit longer too. Probably far less likely to be successful in an F150 surrounded by 55 Gal drums.

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That's the spirit!

I don't think I've ever had BAD Mexican food. I've had some that I wouldn't intentionally have again because it was like something out of a school cafeteria, bland, overcooked, and just a disappointment, but it's still edible.

That's just so weird. It's hard to imagine any town in Texas, at least most of it, not having decent Tex-Mex.

I have had Mexican food in Mexico, CA, NM, AZ, TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC, OK, NY, CO, UT, and OR. It all taste the same. I keep looking for gourmet Mexican. Is there any such thing .I see no difference between Taco Bell and the best Rest. in Acapulco.
Its all good but the same to me.

I worked with a guy for a while that was Mexican. His family was from southern Mexico. He moved to Houston from NJ. He said that what we have here is a type of Mexican, but that Mexico is full of various types of food based on what grows locally. So where his family is from in the south is tropical, so there's tons of flesh fruit and veggies in their food. And of course, near the coasts, lots of seafood.

Do you have any good Cuban in the area? I love good Cuban food. My mom lives a little south of you, Vero Beach, and it's hard to find good Cuban there.

mmmm, TAMALES!

I was laid off years ago during the dot.com bust. I ended up working in a place attached to a bingo parlor. On Fri and Sat nights some Hispanic ladies would show up with a cooler full of tamales. I think we usually paid about $15-20 for a dozen 12, or maybe it was $10-15. I can't remember. Anyway, those were some of wthe best tamales I've ever had. I've had some that were pretty bland. Those can be rescued with some sauce and cheese, but they shouldn't need to be. If they are good, they can be eaten with nothing more than a few greasy fingers.

I've seen me do it:cool:

We've been lucky here in my part of Maryland. In addition to some really well run Mexican restaurants that have opened in the past decade, there is a Central American place that is more traditional Mexican with some Honduran/CA on the menu.

Great pace. Fresh and prepared as you wait.

The old joke about Mexican restaurants in the Central Valley of California was you could tell how good it was going to be by the number of soccer trophies on top of the cigarette machine as you entered.

Not Mexican but close: Cuban.

Buddy a mine whose mother fled Castro and settled in Chicago took me to a place on the SE side of Chicago someplace to a small nondescript cinder block building over looking the freeway with a sign on it saying CUBA. One side had a window through which you ordered, collected and paid for your food. A long line that moved quickly and a giant parking lot was packed with cars full of people chowing down on Cuban pulled pork sandwiches.

Holy Macho Gamacho they were good!