What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
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You must go to Quince, it's an amazing dining experience, but it ain't cheap. Be prepared to spend.
It was seriously one of the best meals we've had anywhere.
Love A-16, it's casual and well priced. Very, very good.
The Slanted Door, also not to expensive and fairly casual. Delicious food.
Great wine list filled with very cool Austrian gems!
I hear Coi is the next big thing. I haven't been yet, but it's supposed to be great.
We had a really good experience at Chapeau! in inner Richmond. Traditional French food, very well executed, and yummy, plus a wine list filled with out of the ordinary selections from France and California. Super inexpensive and great quality all around.
A couple of people recommend Pres a Vis, I'm wondering if it may have gotten better. We had an inedible experience there. The food was horrible and the wine list was creative and well thought out, but a bit over-priced.
The staff at the time weren't particularly enthusiastic about there work either.
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We bought the book, and made three recipes from it the other night. They were exactly as they should be, simple, and delicious.
I didn't find the book to be too pedestrian at all.
The recipes we prepared were the Albondigas, Tortilla, and Mushrooms in garlic.
They tasted like Spain. It was exactly like the food you would eat in someone's home.
I really agree with the comparison to the Joy Of Cooking, the recipes really offer a sense of place. There is nothing fancy here at all.
It's more of a way to take the basics of Spanish cooking and inspire your own creativity with it.
We are having a lot of fun with it.
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What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
I agree with fivrforfun. I live in Bend and the Mexican food at Pepe's rocks. My friend Marcos has a restaurant called La Rosa that is also a locals favorite.
Some really awesome burritos de carne asada can be found at El Grullense in Salem OR. In fact when I'm there I get a cooler and ice and load up before driving home... yes, that good!
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
Houston? What you have there is Tex-Mex. Chicago? I think not. I have lived in both cities. San Diego, CA which is 15 miles north of the Mexican border by far, has the best Mexican in the US. Old Town is dedicated to offering you one Mexican restaurant after another in addition to all the other Mexican restaurants and taco stands located around the city. Real Mexican food is found there.
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
rozilla - there are some good Mexican restaurants in Nashville. Pueblo Viejo and Pueblo Real in Franklin, Las Cazuelas (can't beat the entertainment on Saturday night) or Los Arcos on Nolensville Rd. are all real good.
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
C) Los Angeles. Taco trucks - 'nuff said.
I'm going to jump on the San Antonio is not real Mexican bandwagon, too. Some of the worst "Mexican" food I've ever had was there. Guess that's why they call it Tex-Mex.
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
This is a poorly worded question. There is quite a bit of difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex.
LA and Houston have the two largest Mexican populations and will have the best and most representative regional Mexican food. Houston does have an edge here because:
1) Mexican food is not segregated to one part of the city, as it is in LA. Houston is a working city without zoning, where people live and eat right next to one another. Try to find passable Mexican food in Beverly Hills, on the other hand.
2) Houston has Hugo Ortega (who bests even Rick Bayless if you ask me) and Hugo's, one of the best upscale Mexican restaurants in the country. LA doesn't even come close in this category.
Now, if you are looking for Tex-Mex, it's a completely different story. Houston and San Antonio have both originated very distinctive brands of Tex-Mex food, and I have trouble choosing one over the other.
Skirt steak has been cooked around Texas since 1930's, but fajitas in their current incarnation took off in Houston. Today you find them all over the world, but Houston is without a doubt a fajita city.
Similarly, San Antonio have signature dishes that you rarely find faithfully replicated anywhere else. Puffy tacos, cheese enchiladas, thick and doughy flour tortillas. All unique to San Antonio and in a different world when it comes to Tex-Mex.
So to sum up, Houston is the best city for Mexican food, with a tie between Houston and San Antonio for Tex-Mex.
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
I know I'm going to start a riot here (after reading the above comments), but San Antonio should not even be on this list. There are several decent taco joints, but that really is the extent of it. Most of the "Mexican" food here is really lacking, and other than a handful of recent arrivals (the aforementioned Picante Grill, as well as Cascabel's, and Guajillo's), there is almost no real Mexican food. We specialize in Texican, characterized by flour tortillas and chili gravy. Taco trucks have started to arrive in San Antonio in the last couple of years, so perhaps things are on an upward trend.
On the other hand, Chicago has phenomenal Mexican food all over the place, and a long weekend in Santa Fe last year was among my greatest runs of consistently amazing food (90% of it Mexican or New Mexican) ever.
(Full disclosure: My recent life: San Antonio 6 years -- Chicago 6 years -- San Antonio 2 years.)
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
You can bet none of them are in Philadelphia....
What's the Best Mexican Food Town in the U.S.?
Hey Lambowner - the "jump" is when you read an article that starts on the main page of the blog and is continued with full details on another page that's reached by clicking on a hyperlink in the first page. When you click on that link to read the full details you "jump to the other page.
I lack the experience to say where the best Mexican food is but it's sure as heck not in NY city or NY state. And I think that although having a large Mexican population does raise the chances of having good Mexican food available... adjacency to the border is an even stronger factor.
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