Mexican restaurants - do you like fancy or traditional menu?
 

Just offer a traditional two or three item meal with rice and beans and I’m satisfied. I don’t need an overpriced fancy-schmancy Mexican menu. Carne asada enchilada and crispy taco is all I want. I’m easy to please and a cheap date.

I get fajitas every time. If you look at the menu, it looks like they have 75 different items, but they’re almost identical in every case. At least it looks like that to me.

^^^^ I'm with ya.... 'cept that Carne asada sounds kind of fancy-schmancy :D

Traditional.

There's a fancy shmancy California mexican place close by. Everyone loves it. I can't stand it. I never love anything there.

Then there's the mexican place where you see non-English speaking laborers buying lunch. Love the place.

I don't know if you call this fancy or Traditional, but the Chimichangas are to absolutely die for here:
https://www.rosalindascuisine.com/menus/#plates

I used to be a Mexican waiter at a very cheap place. Cheap but POPULAR.

So I have it in my head that Mexican food should be traditional and cheap. And good.

We use to go to El Cholo a little bit. A bit fancy compare to most Mexican joints. Now that said, I noticed the food in the slightly upscale place have a lot less grease in their food compare to the typical taco or burrito stand/ simple places. You know why places where the laborers hang out are so good? One work, grease. I love Baja Fresh or Rubio's Baja Grill. A lot less grease and taste pretty darn good. My workmen will not go there. I make fun of those places, "Mexican Food for white people" and I love the food there.

When did you stop being Mexican?

About 11pm each evening.

I had bought a few properties and BIG mortgages to pay so I worked as a computer tech at a bank by day, a Mexican waiter in the evenings and landlord on the weekends.

I really liked being a waiter. We had a good time and everything was just a great big laugh. Much different to working at a bank. Luckily no one expected me to speak Spanish.

Bill, I aint never seen a white dude waiting tables in a one of those cheap, traditional, and good Mexican joints.:D

What is usually called "Mexican" food is Tex-Mex. We have several authentic Mexican (Mexico City, Pueblo, etc.) here in Houston. Most of the time, I want fajitas.

There's a place near me that serves genuine traditional (and fancy) meals popular in Oaxaca. Chocolate BBQ, for example: 'Barbacoa Mole'. Has a 'salsa bar' near the cash register with maybe 10 choices from left to right, mild to hot. The right-most is like 25,000 beryllium units or whatever.

That maybe what we had in Player Del Carman? We honeymoon there. As soon as we dropped off our bags, we went out for a walk looking for a place to eat. There was this big fancy neon lit place, "Mayan food". Oh yeah, forget Mexican food, Mayan is why we came here. it was a little different then what we have back home in LA but was not bad at all. We get back to our hotel and told the guy behind the counter and he laughed until he pee in his pants. It was all bogus. No such thing as Mayan food anymore. We felt dumb but the food was good.

Come out here for a holiday and I'll put on a voice and bring you the very best chilli con queso. Yep, things are different when you get this far south LOL

Being in SoCal we have Mexican like no tomorrow. It's amazing the difference in the food from the regions of Mexico.

We have the Mole' which can be different sauces with a multitude of ingredients, Chocolate, chiles, Tamarind, pumpkin seeds, etc.

I love chorizo and egg burritos, Machaca, tacos al pastor, chilaquiles, and don't get me started on the seafood.

And I love the chicharron carnudo (crispy pork skin with some carnitas meat) from Vallarta Market.

But when it comes to where the rubber meets the road, this is my go to.....

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1668142931.jpg

Sonoran tacos dorados.....

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1668143955.jpg

Grew up in Echo Park just outside of Dodger Stadium, a Mexican American neighborhood after the Italians had left. We knew all the taco stands and dirty, traditional places. Many times, I was the only none Mexican speaking in there with my friends from the neighborhood. The one thing I really miss is the hand made tortilla, nice and thick and goes great with everything else. After school there's always a pot of re-fried beans and hand made tortilla hanging around somewhere in my friend's house.

That chicharron will kill ya, but its so good, fatty and salty.

Real Mexicans do not eat flower tortilla, only corn.

Salvadorian is whole different kind of good south of the border food.

Some of you guys know that I don't drink but a very cold beer is a must with that dish of rice and beans. Can't go without one.

Most Mexican food Americans are familiar with is Sonora style. Mexican food is so much broader than Sonoran, and I like that style. Craig's mention of true Mexican Sea Food just teases on the variety. But my favorite is Shrimp/Seafood Tamales AND Mexican Chocolate tamale brownies.

I had Mexican food for lunch yesterday and today. Two different restaurants, both great. I've been in Dallas for almost a month, and I've been eating a lot more Mexican here because restaurants at home (near San Antonio) all suck.

I like a fried egg (over easy) on top of beef enchiladas, please. That's not usually on the menu, but they will do it.