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Posted: 4/21/2022 10:18:17 PM EST

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It really depends on the restaurant where I am eating. If it's a "new to me" location, I'll usually go with cheese enchiladas or beef tacos. If they can't do that well, I won't be back.

Posted: 4/21/2022 10:18:28 PM EST

[#2]

Chile toreados
Flauta
Carne adovada (red)
Flat stack enchiladas

Posted: 4/21/2022 10:32:18 PM EST

[#3]

I love most Mexican foods, but it’s hard to beat a legit beef cheek or beef tongue street taco with only cilantro and onion on it. Some chips/salsa/guacamole on the side with a cold Jarritos soda is always a good way to help them go down.

Posted: 4/21/2022 10:56:35 PM EST

[#4]

Enchiladas of any kind, not from SA, not from Austin, not from Houston. From the TX RGV, it's the best and cheapest MX food in the state and it's better than you can get in the northern half of MX too. F'n fantastic. More of a gravy on top instead of enchilada sauce.

Posted: 4/21/2022 11:02:00 PM EST

[#5]

Burrito Carne Asada (Large flour tortilla stuffed with steak covered in white cheese)

or

Steak Chimichanga (pretty much same thing just deep fried) then covered in white cheese sauce

Posted: 4/21/2022 11:02:46 PM EST

[#6]

Dos Equis

Posted: 4/21/2022 11:03:48 PM EST

[#7]

A good posole soup is nice too.

Posted: 4/21/2022 11:11:52 PM EST

[#8]

Green Chili Burro

or

Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas

Posted: 4/21/2022 11:47:46 PM EST

[#9]

Lomo Saltado at Lauriol Plaza in D.C.

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Posted: 4/22/2022 12:36:02 AM EST

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Tacos el pastor (corn tortillas ONLY) or chili relleno.

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Lebanese Mex hybrid.

I like it too.

Posted: 4/22/2022 12:44:30 AM EST

[#11]

Yeah, I'd eat that. I like it all, except menudo.

Posted: 4/22/2022 12:57:59 AM EST

[#12]

Lengua tacos, chicken fajitas, ceviche, shredded chicken quesadilla.

Posted: 4/22/2022 1:01:04 AM EST

[#13]

Red beef and or cheese enchiladas.

Posted: 4/22/2022 1:06:05 AM EST

[#14]

Torta Cubana (named after Cuba Street, in Mexico City - not the country) ... a real gut-bomb of a meal.

Posted: 4/22/2022 1:06:37 AM EST

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Not restaurant but what do order when you go out for Mexican food?

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Real Mexican food like in Mexico, probably a steak but you need to know your Argentinian cuts.

Posted: 4/22/2022 6:47:45 AM EST

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Wife and I love a stuffed avocado. There are a couple of restaurants locally that split an avocado, stuff it with steak and cheese, batter it and then deep fry it. They are delicious.

Posted: 4/22/2022 6:51:38 AM EST

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I always order the Texas fajitas

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Posted: 4/22/2022 9:07:23 AM EST

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My wife.

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Posted: 4/22/2022 9:08:26 AM EST

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Surprised it took 35 replies to get here.

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You counted the relies?!??

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Posted: 4/22/2022 9:10:38 AM EST

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tequila

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Mescal or mescaline!
Your choice.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:12:39 AM EST

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Ceviche

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Posted: 4/22/2022 9:14:23 AM EST

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I judge a Mexican restaurant by their tamales....One of my past coworkers from Mcallen TX always said, if a restaurant cant make good tamales, the rest of the food will not be to good

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That might work but only insomuch that the restaurant makes tamales and serves them every day if the week.

Also, places that serve tamales one day a week are likely giving you freshly made tamales, while places serving tamales all week might be reheating frozen tamales.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:16:09 AM EST

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That looks like a scan from a 1970s Betty Crocker ¡Taste of Mexico! cookbook.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:19:42 AM EST

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Chile Rellenos if its a tex-mex place

My all time favorite was the Taco Bell mexi melt which they discontinued

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I'm always looking for that perfect Chile Relleno

So far a good one has been a Chile Relleno burrito off a food truck, not too greasy

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:22:42 AM EST

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Lomo Saltado at Lauriol Plaza in D.C.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/486238/1F75EA03-9ADB-4BBC-B6CB-5952F6B5F84E_jpe-2357533.JPG

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While exceptionally tasty and one of my favorites, lomo saltado is actually Peruvian food.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:23:16 AM EST

[#26]

I've been on a Tacos de Lengua(beef tongue) kick lately.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:32:27 AM EST

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Love it all

but I dream of Chili Verde Burritoshttps://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif

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My thinking since I was a kid when eating at a mexican food restaurant was "If Green Chile was on the menu, then it was the only thing on the menu".

Lately though I have grown tired of an endless stream of mediocre Green Chile.

Chile Rellenos has become a target for me, and the elusive Rajas plate which I seldom find.

If you don't know what Rajas is then here is a picture.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:37:14 AM EST

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Carnitas.

Which is much harder to find in Arizona than California as AZ is mainly Sonoran Mexican food. Its amazing too.. but my first love is real carnitas.

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Alfonso's in Payson has REAL carnitas. Boiled in lard with Coke and Oranges, then fried till crispy.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:41:01 AM EST

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I always order the Texas fajitas

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I make a version of that I got from Chef John then tweak a bit. In fact I have some shrimp I just got to make some this weekend.

Mexican-Style Shrimp Cocktail - How to Make a Mexican-Style Seafood Cocktail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbGuzbcCH2s

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:50:31 AM EST

[#30]

Build your own taco night!

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:52:12 AM EST

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Dude, I live in Ohio.

I feel I’m lucky that there’s something besides Taco Bell, or the “menu item with Spanish rice and refried beans” type of restaurant available up here.

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"el rancho II" Know mexicans that drive more than an hr one way to eat there.

Posted: 4/22/2022 9:54:51 AM EST

[#32]

A really good enchilada with beans and very good spanish rice is hard to beat. Or an excellent hard shell taco supreme. Or on the side with the enchilada and sides on the side of that. See what I'm sayin..

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:13:09 AM EST

[#33]

Tacos al pastor are my weakness. Only have gotten good ones in MX.
Love me some pork tamales also.
Local Mexican place has a mojochate with meat and seafood for 2 that is delish.
Also a ranchero pork enchilada dish that is to die for.

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:19:58 AM EST

[#34]

Tacos al pastor en maiz y chiles torreados

Black bean soup with epazote y puerco

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:22:10 AM EST

[#35]

I love pozole but have been on a sopes kick lately.

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:34:37 AM EST

[#36]

This is one of my favorites from MX.
Al pastor baked potato. Loaded with butter, crema, cheese, pineapple and pastor pork.
They go through several 50# bags of potatoes a day.

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:42:15 AM EST

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What is a Good Chile Relleno?

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:44:37 AM EST

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What is a Good Chile Relleno?

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You won't know until you have one, and you'll probably have to wade through dozens of shitty ones to find it. Toughest thing to get right it seems like

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:45:28 AM EST

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What is a Good Chile Relleno?

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Roasted/skinned poblano, deseeded and membrane removed, stuffed with whatever, dipped in a super light and fluffy batter (almost like a meringue), and flash fried.

Delicious.

Super hard to find a decent one at a restaurant. They always have heavy breading, which totally ruins the dish, but “chicken fried stuffed pepper” is easy to make, and people who don’t know any better will eat it.

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:48:31 AM EST

[#40]

That is the gatefold of ZZ Topp’s Tres Hombres album. Takes me back to my teens.

@meleante

Posted: 4/22/2022 10:57:34 AM EST

[#41]

Carnitas and tamales

Posted: 4/22/2022 12:58:06 PM EST

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You won't know until you have one, and you'll probably have to wade through dozens of shitty ones to find it. Toughest thing to get right it seems like

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What is a Good Chile Relleno?

You won't know until you have one, and you'll probably have to wade through dozens of shitty ones to find it. Toughest thing to get right it seems like

That is probably is the Best answer of the day.....

Posted: 4/22/2022 1:01:27 PM EST

[#43]

Enchiladas are my favorite. High quality street tacos are excellent also.

Posted: 4/22/2022 1:34:41 PM EST

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Yeah, I'd eat that. I like it all, except menudo.

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Eastern style red menudo is the bomb.

Western style “menudo blanco” is gross.

Posted: 4/22/2022 2:29:18 PM EST

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Build your own taco night!

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My mom found this Campbell's recipe back in the 70's and everyone who ever tried them, loved them. The secret was chopped cherry peppers. But, Campbells stopped making the chili beef soup and that is the other key ingredient to those tacos.

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Posted: 4/22/2022 2:53:47 PM EST

[#46]

Pizza or hamburgers but mostly chicken or steak or ribs but sometimes fish. Mexican food is all the same shit in a different tortilla or shape. So probably tequila.