When we first moved to Madison, there weren't many Mexican restaurants in this part of the world. We did find one in our neighborhood and we used that for several years. I really loved their cheese enchilada smothered in green chile. Then they started introducing odd items like a mexican hawaiian wrap...just weird stuff that was not only not very Mexican or TexMexican, but not even very edible. Eventually, that restaurant went out of business at its eastside locaton. Then a few years later came our favorite Mexican restaurant. It stayed that way for several years, but they had a menu item change a couple years ago. It didn't seem the same. Last night we went again and figured out that we could substitute vegetarian items for the meated items. Great! I'm not vegetarian, but I prefer vegetarian Mexican food. Except there was a problem. On the chile rellenos, that should've been smothered in the sauce I was used to having it smothered in, it was smothered in some sort of red sauce that seemed familiar, but not that tasteful on Mexican cooking....what was it...let's see...then it hit me. It was Italian, like the kind of sauce you'd put on Italian food, not Mexican. Why is it that these restaurants are always so good at first, and then so quickly go downhill?
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There are still a few great Mexican food places here in Madison. It's sort of strange to have a favorite become... well.... a little odd tasting.
LOL! So funny! there are mexican restaurants everywhere here! And these tiny, brightly colored (usually green) buildings with spanish all over them, called carnicerias.
I haven't had any (mexican food) since we came down here. I wouldn't know where to go!
Ok, that is a lie. I bought some (real) tamales at the grocery store... yummy! Still not as good as the ones I had in Laramie. One of the gals was married to a mexican... her mother in law really liked her kids! They were divine!
In dickinson there is a mex place that was awesome when it was new, and then we went back and the food was unseasoned! yeck
I've always found the family-run businesses to be the best, as long as they stay a family business and not get corporate. One of the worst mexican restaurants IMHO is the corporate Chi-Chi's. :P
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