US City with the best Mexican food (better, compared, Los Angeles)

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by mas23

Why? There are about 1.2 million-1.5 million Mexicans in the chicago area.

Just makes me wonder if they've ever been south of Springfield, IL, haha just kidding. Maybe some Mexican restaurants there are AS GOOD as those in LA, ABQ, El Paso, SA.etc, but BETTER? Come on, seriously?

There are probably 10 million Mexicans in Southern California.

[allenk893]

Best mexican food I had was in Texas in San Antonio. There's mexican people all over there and they cook some good behind food.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

Maybe some Mexican restaurants there are AS GOOD as those in LA, ABQ, El Paso, SA.etc, but BETTER? Come on, seriously?

Indeed, given that Mexicans are so widerspread across The United States why would any one place have better (whatever that means) Mexican food than another? Of course having more Mexicans in a certain place would probably mean more good places but not necessarily better.

I'm also struck by the futility of even attempting to judge this. Given that both LA and Chicago have hundreds of Mexican joints who in the Hell REALLY knows what's going on anyway? No one is qualified to say.

[orzo]

I've eaten Mexican Food in most of these cities, and in no way, shape, or form is Mexican food in Chicago better than Phoenix/Tucson, San Diego, or San Francisco Bay Area. I have no clue who in their right mind would vote for Chicago here. I'm not saying the Mexican food is bad there, but there are plenty of places where it is significantly better.

[nslander]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

I'm sorry but LA doesn't spring to mind when I think of Polish cooking. Chicago, Pittsburg, Detroit, yeah; LA, no.

Not to mention Lithuanian and Bohemian chow. How's alambres and kugelis sound? Zeppelins ala Mexicano? Burritos stuffed with pork tenderloin? Chile sauce over potato dumplings?

And Chicago doesn't come to mind when I think of Asian food, the multiple examples of which represent the cuisine of more than half the World's population, and represented domestically in most significant part in the same city with far and away the largest Mexican population in the US, a city that used to be part of Mexico.

[DinsdalePirahna]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

Indeed, given that Mexicans are so widerspread across The United States why would any one place have better (whatever that means) Mexican food than another? Of course having more Mexicans in a certain place would probably mean more good places but not necessarily better.

I'm also struck by the futility of even attempting to judge this. Given that both LA and Chicago have hundreds of Mexican joints who in the Hell REALLY knows what's going on anyway? No one is qualified to say.

Availability of fresh Ingredients. You can get god Mexican food in New York and Chicago but it just doesn't taste as good.

Just like you can get decent Pizza in California, but it just does't taste as good as what you can get in NY (New Haven, New Jersey) and Chicago.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by munchitup

Haha same with me, I am from Santa Maria which is heavily Hispanic. Though the tastes of the local Hispanic population is more geared toward barbequeing or burritos. But any time I got home the first place I go is a Mexican joint (for a town of 100,000 there are a lot of options )

i admit I don't go ga ga for Mexican food, but I have gredy friends who have been bouncing around the NE, NY, Philly, even some areas of WV, and they always complain about the dishes just not tasting as good as they do in Texas.

First thing they do when they get back here is head to some mexican joints too.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by nslander

And Chicago doesn't come to mind when I think of Asian food, the multiple examples of which represent the cuisine of more than half the World's population, and represented domestically in most significant part in the same city with far and away the largest Mexican population in the US, a city that used to be part of Mexico.

Swell. So what does that have to do with Mexican-Polish fusion?

[nslander]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

Swell. So what does that have to do with Mexican-Polish fusion?

This is reading like an offensive ethnic joke.

Where did I mention polish food?

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by orzo

I've eaten Mexican Food in most of these cities, and in no way, shape, or form is Mexican food in Chicago better than Phoenix/Tucson, San Diego, or San Francisco Bay Area. I have no clue who in their right mind would vote for Chicago here. I'm not saying the Mexican food is bad there, but there are plenty of places where it is significantly better.

How would you know? Every day I drive by dozens of Mexican joints and I don't have a clue what's going on in them. Do you?

And I sure as Hell don't know what's going on in the other cities you mentioned. That's why I'm not so bold as to venture an opinion of what city has the best Mexican and wonder if ANY city actually does.