What's the deal with the Mexican food in Lakeview? (Chicago: real estate, luxury)

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by Attrill

My point still stands though. If someone doesn't think there is any good Mexican outside of Pilsen or Little Village they need to get out more.

No doubt of that. There are so many Mexican joints all over the city the only general statement I think reasonable would be to say there's probably good Mexican in all parts of the city; who could have tried them all? Just drive down Pulaski (Crawford as Drover calls it) from the Stevenson to 63rd St and you must pass at least a dozen of them.

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by Drover

Did you know there's one in Avondale now, in the old Pepe's space?

Say what?! Gotta google that ASAP, I'm not familiar with the location. Dude, you made my day, thanks!



edit: found link:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/las-asadas-chicago-4

gets worse reviews than the one on Western, but it's relatively new.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

Say what?! Gotta google that ASAP, I'm not familiar with the location. Dude, you made my day, thanks!

Yep, over on Pulaski between Belmont and Milwaukee, right on that goofy Belmont/Pulaski/Milwaukee triangle.

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

edit: found link:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/las-asadas-chicago-4

gets worse reviews than the one on Western, but it's relatively new.

Been there for over a year now. I have no complaints about it; doesn't seem any different from one on Western. I've also been to the one in Des Plaines. They seem pretty consistent across locations, so... take the Yelp complaints about this one with a grain of salt. :shrug:

[Alacran]

Yeah marquette park area and north has a bunch.
Cermak from cicero to harlem
Lawrence and montrose got a few scattered
The rest are scattered like specs on the northside .. fullerton armitage north belmont

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by Drover

Been there for over a year now. I have no complaints about it; doesn't seem any different from one on Western. I've also been to the one in Des Plaines. They seem pretty consistent across locations, so... take the Yelp complaints with a grain of salt. :shrug:

Absolutely. Yelp seems to bring out the extremes, either the people gushing with praise or complaining about any old damned thing ("I couldn't find a place to park, wahhhhh!")

[Alacran]

I hate yelp.

all these places I used to go to that where not as packed are now completely packed thanks to stupid yelp

[Lorielicious]

Originally Posted by Alacran

I hate yelp.

all these places I used to go to that where not as packed are now completely packed thanks to stupid yelp

Yelp is handily the worst thing to happen to going out.

Some hipster douche will find an unpopuluar place, then score cool cred by sharing his unique, authentic find with the rest of the world, and before you know it, that sh*thole on the corner that even homeless people were afraid of is packed to the gills every Friday night.

There's this one bar in Los Angeles that is a dive among dives -- I'm not kidding. It's in the heart of Skid Row, a patently dangerous place, and no one in their right mind would go there at night unless they had a serious drinking problem. Fast forward to a few years later, some kids at USC found out about it, Yelped their "true, authentic dive bar experience," and next thing you know this place has a four-star review on Yelp.

You have got to be kidding me. And don't even get me started about how once a place is well-received on Yelp, regardless of its quality, the fanbois come out en masse to lob on their effusive praise as well.

So yeah, I hate Yelp a little bit.

[s0nginmyheart]

One of my favorite Mexican restaurants:
El Norte Restaurant - Edgewater - Chicago, IL

Only place that has Carne Asada Fries on their menu (a California thing)!

[Drover]

*Sigh* I miss Monticello in Andersonville, a total grease-on-the-walls taqueria that also did a brisk pizza carry-out/delivery business. Their pizza was pretty good but their steak burritos were far and away the best in town. They held out for as long as they could but eventually they got gentrified out. Now there's a stupid Hair Cuttery there. I'm impressed Los Arcos is still hanging in there.

Taqueria La Tremenda in Elgin had similarly good steak but they're gone too.

[aragx6]

The main reason I hate Yelp is that their "Yelp sort" is based on who gives them money and who doesn't. If you do use it, always be sure to change it to sort by date (it should be noted that its mobile app doesn't allow you to change the sort options -- which is, frankly, bull sheet.)