What US city makes the best Mexican food? (quality of life, living)

[wesside]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

San Antonio is said to have has the best tacos in America.

According to who? You? I have never heard of that. For any person to make such a conclusory comment is ignorant.

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

Sorry, didn't then mean to come off as rude, just a pretty small downtown, for the size of Albuquerque. I will say Albuquerque is a pretty city.

San Antonio has a good skyline, could be better, but, far from pathetic. Lots of construction going on downtown. The city also has more than one skyline.

Since when did this turn into a skyline thread?

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by wesside

According to who? You? I have never heard of that. For any person to make such a conclusory comment is ignorant.

Since when did this turn into a skyline thread?

According to whom? Food network, Bon Appetite and a few other national publications. Read what I posted, and maybe things will look less ignorant! I have never patronized the place.

[bradly]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

I would have to agree, the skyline looks smaller than a city of barley 100k.

Wtf?! I dont understand when you say we have a skyline of a city under 100k, when cities under 100k dont even have much of a skyline dude.

Albuquerque's Skyline is like a skyline of a city of 300,000..for a city of 528,000 but who honestly cares.. we dont need to have high rises or even have to prove any thing to anyone.. were a booooming city thats all that matters here, no one really cares how big the buildings are here, and the soil problem is also a problem.. the downtown is on a swamp and the terrain and soil is like that for miles under the surface so it would be impossible to build tall even if you had the proper foundtation.. you seem like you havent been here..? the buildings arent even that small. San Antonio has a crapy skyline.. for a metro and city its size.. the only thing nice about that city is the river walk so dont get hard up on us..

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by bradly

Wtf?! I dont understand when you say we have a skyline of a city under 100k, when cities under 100k dont even have much of a skyline dude.

Albuquerque's Skyline is like a skyline of a city of 300,000..for a city of 528,000 but who honestly cares.. we dont need to have high rises or even have to prove any thing to anyone.. were a booooming city thats all that matters here, no one really cares how big the buildings are here, and the soil problem is also a problem.. the downtown is on a swamp and the terrain and soil is like that for miles under the surface so it would be impossible to build tall even if you had the proper foundtation.. you seem like you havent been here..? the buildings arent even that small. San Antonio has a crapy skyline.. for a metro and city its size.. the only thing nice about that city is the river walk so dont get hard up on us..

I just said it was a small skyline. Didn't say it was crappy! Midland happens to have a big skyline for a city it's size. I didn't even start this.
As for S.A., the skyline isn't spectacular, but, a good size, and comprable to many skylines in the 2 million population range.

i should have just kept my mouth shut.

If Tex-Mex is your thing, San Antonio is known for having great food. Southwestern is a different story, less significance in Texas.

[bradly]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

I just said it was a small skyline. Didn't say it was crappy! Midland happens to have a big skyline for a city it's size. I didn't even start this.
As for S.A., the skyline isn't spectacular, but, a good size, and comprable to many skylines in the 2 million population range.

i should have just kept my mouth shut.

If Tex-Mex is your thing, San Antonio is known for having great food. Southwestern is a different story, less significance in Texas.

OK
Tex-Mex goes to San Antonio
and Mexican or (New Mexican) goes to Albuquerque and Santa Fe!
i know we have a small skyline, it blows.. but it gives albuquerque that feeling where you dont live in such a horrible large city.
However, i like the way the skyline looks in pictures

[jjbradleynyc]

Tucson, Arizona, in my experience.

[wesside]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

According to whom? Food network, Bon Appetite and a few other national publications. Read what I posted, and maybe things will look less ignorant! I have never patronized the place.

Ok, so they list to have awards for several local and state "best of's."
They claim to have the best tacos in America through Bon Appetite and the Food Network, but it doesnt say whether they actually were the sole best tacos, or amongst the 10 best like just about every magazine does it. Big difference. Cafe Coyote in San Diego claims to have several awards for the "Best of" in California for several years, but what they dont say is that several restaurants win the Best Of for the same categories. (i.e. 5 different places with the award, "Best Taco" in CA.

Either ways, though they must have some amazing tacos that I will have my hands on sometime. But I hardly think any person/organization can make a claim of who makes the best Mexican food cuz if so, we might as well have every person in America making the claim that their mexican restaurant is the best. There cannot be 5,000 best mexican restaurants in the nation. to each his own.

The thread is geared towards which city makes the best mexican food.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

I would say the best tacos in the world are my Grama's. Homemade flour tortillas, with all the homemade ingredients.

[bradly]

Hell ya my Grandma's food is pretty awesome too! I think growing up in New Mexico was the best ever, New Mexican/Mexican food non-stop i can live off of eating that EVERYDAY, are old neighbors from Nebraska said thats what brought them here.

[vegaspilgrim]

Los Angeles DOES have some really good Mexican food and a wide range of regional Mexican cuisines represented. I just ate at a Oaxacan restaurant tonight-- first time I've ever had that cuisine. It was really good! I had some kind of mole-derived sort of dish. I should have brought my camera and taken a picture.

That being said, whether or not New Mexico food is even Mexican food or if it's just a regional American food, there is nothing like the flavor of a freshly roasted New Mexico grown chile. The varieties of chile peppers used in other Mexican/ Mexican American/ Latin American styles of cooking just don't do it for me. Albuquerque is kind of like the "little engine that could" when it comes to food-- believe it or not, little Albuquerque is a pretty significant food city with a number of top gun restaurants. If you put Albuquerque's best restaurants in LA they would definitely hold their own and be among the best. ABQ is probably one of the most underrated cities in the country; it is truly a hidden gem. I'm sure some cocky know it alls here will jump on me and laugh at me for saying this, but I say don't knock it until you try it. Until you've really explored Albuquerque, you don't know what you're missing!