Best Mexican Food you've ever had

Super Mex in Long Beach.

Popo's in Roswell.

Several places in Trenton.

Few other places here and there.

The Mexican food where I live is tantamount to egg noodles and ketchup, which is really sad. I could use some bona fide tacos right now.

 

Tuesday Ty Lawson asked fans for “bomb” taco spot, Wednesday may sit with gastroenteritis

 

The Enchiladas Suizas at Rosario's on Alamo Street in San Antonio. Chicken enchiladas with white wine cream sauce.

Second best: Chocolate Chimichanga with Tequila Cream Sauce at Arizona Bar & Grill, which used to be in Rosebud, Texas. The local paper called it a four-star restaurant in a one-light town. The chef/owner, Eddie Hernandez, was from Atlanta, where he ran some high-end places. His wife, Bea, was from Rosebud and wanted to open a place there, so Eddie split his time between Atlanta and Rosebud. The restaurant didn't last long, but it was mighty good.

 

Two outstanding places within 10 minutes of my home in the Fort Lauderdale area. For a more upscale experience, there's Casa Frida (named in tribute to the painter Frida Kahlo). Costs more than typical Mexican, but worth it. Just down U.S. 1 is La Bamba, which is less expensive but still very good. The mild salsa is excellent (lots of cilantro and more sweet than spicy). And if you try the hot salsa, be prepared to hear five alarms going off. A bonus is that the owner lives down the street from us, so he usually gives us some sort of deal if he's in when we go there.

Also had a lot of excellent Mexican while visiting my parents in the Tucson area. Unfortunately, I can't remember any restaurant names.

 

Embarrassing admission: I really like Mexican food, but many of the dishes taste about the same to me. They're good, but I can't identify what makes them different from one another.

 

Because they're all meat, cheese and vegetables wrapped in a tortilla.

However, there is a little Mexican joint in Mobile, Ala., called "Maria Bonita." They have combined traditional Mexican dishes with Gulf Coast seafood in several dishes, including the "Bayou Burrito," which has shrimp, crawfish tails and crab meat in a tortilla and covered with white cheese.

 

Well, a lot of the places feel the exact same, like they all are following the same recipes -- the salsas are identical -- and get their ingredients and decor materials from the same supplier. They're all La Fiesta, El Rodeo or something like that, and the food at each seems 99.5% the same -- and yet I'll go right now for lunch without hesitation.

 

My wife loves Mexican food so much that she and I had to reach a verbal contract that we can only eat it one night a week.

 

Chope's Bar and Grill, La Mesa, NM

Best chile rellenos ever.

 

We're a Mexican-food wasteland in these parts. Hell, I miss Chi-Chi's lunch buffet.

We did have a very good place called Casa Chica in Steelton, Pa. Nachos Del Mar to die for, and the best guacamole. Closed down a decade ago.

On a related topic, I used to get cheese enchiladas in a can that were fantastic. The cheese was a chewy little tube of cheddar goodness. Has anyone else seen those anywhere? They've been gone from shelves here for quite a while.

 

I think the ethnic makeup there has changed over the years, but the Pilsen neighborhood a few miles southwest of downtown used to be one of the largest Mexican communities in the country. And it had a lot of excellent Mexican restaurants.