Best Mexican Food you've ever had

Combination Plate, El Rancho Café, Holcomb, KS

Taco, Tostada, 2 enchiladas, Burrito, beans and rice.

If you have ever been to our little corner of the world for more than a minute, you absolutely have to eat at El Rancho.

 

Isn't Holcomb where the Clutter family was massacred?

 

Some place in San Diego with outdoor decks the night before the '92 All-Star Game. Turns out the tequila was good, too, so I don't remember it's name.

 

Some little place in Davenport, Iowa, down by Credit Island off the Mississippi River. I just looked it up and it's called Dominga's now, but had a different name I can't remember when I was there.

You walk in and the first thing you see is an old woman making tortillas by hand. You sit down, point to the number on the menu because no one there speaks English. The Huevos Rancheros are an instant hangover cure. When Mrs. BWIP was pregnant with our first child, she had horrible morning sickness and often couldn't keep anything down. Eating those Huevos Rancheros would settle her stomach instantly.

 

That is correct.
I grew up about 2 miles from there.

 

Burns, this whole thread could cover Mexican joints in the Quad-Cities!

My vote goes to Habanero's on Fourth Avenue in Moline (almost to East Moline). Great guacamole and the best salsa in the area (despite the restaurant's name, heavy on the cilantro, which is the way I like it).

 

Little place whose name I didn't get on Hollywood Blvd. in the Los Feliz neighborhood of LA. Best breakfast burrito I have ever had. Maybe the best breakfast period.

 

El Indio near the San Diego airport is damn good. There's a reason why the line is out the door for lunch.

 

Two high-end joints I love are Pampano in New York (Pampano) and Colibri (Colibri | Mexican cuisine in a turn of the century cantina setting) in San Francisco. Rick Bayless' joints in Chicago are also quite spectacular.

I grew up loving The Taco Stand here in Athens and that hasn't changed, even after working there for several years in my early 20s. Some Taco Stand chips with their X-hot sauce is maybe my favorite thing on the planet.

Taqueria del Sol has joints in Athens, Atlanta and Nashville and they do everything incredibly well. Their pork green chili is about as good as anything you'll ever eat.

 

H&H Car Wash in El Paso ranks up there, but any hole in the wall in the RGV is probably great, too.

 

The meal the staff catered at our beach house in Troncones in 2007. Those stuffed peppers still bring tears to my eyes. Partially because of the spice, more because it was the 40th anniversary trip my parents wanted to take with all of us to celebrate that they "made it" in life, and my dad died 18 months later.

But really, never had anything in a restaurant that comes close. And I don't even know if we paid 200 bucks for that dinner for 12.