Non-NonRev

In this case, the problem was that the Hialeah comapny was making and marketing a product they called "Mexican-style chorizo" but it was nothing like what I grew up with (it could very well have been more like the Cuban recipe/product that you are describing).

There is a concentration of Mexican restaurants down in Homestead (far south Dade county, nat the threshhold to the Keys) that service a Maxican migrant worker's community. Some of those restaurants were using the Mexican style, however, the drive down there was quite far, as I live in central Broward. However, the good news is that the small market attached to Dona Raquel's restaurant mentioned above sells the same chorizo used in the restuarant - this is where I now buy it for when I want to cook my own.

fabulousflygirl

Oh boy! I had forgotten about Rubio's. Shame on me!!! I just had a good lunch there last week too. Thanks for reminding me!

redbeard911

...founded in San Diego by Americans who got the idea while surfing in Baja California. The first location in Pacific Beach is still there.

Growing up in San Diego, I loved the Roberto's, Alberto's, Hilberto's, Adalberto's, Humberto's, etc. Rolled tacos and quesadilla. Yummy!

gre

Going to college in SD I loved these as well as the street food in TJ.

Now I'm stuck in the hades that is our nation's capital.

bzbdewd

Yes there are lots of Mexican restaurants now across the US but good? Not so much. But then after several years living in El Paso I'm spoiled

TrueBlueFlyer

Good post... but what is Jaramillo brand soda?

Most local Mexican places around here carry Jarritos brand, and its colorful and very popular.

--Russ

TMOliver

My Bad! It's Jarritos.... ...And these days, Senorial brand "Sangia" non alcoholic soda pop and Mexican Coca Cola made with cane sugar.

sipes23

I lived in da UP for a few years. If you wanted Mexican food, there was a so-so place in Escanaba that I went to on occasion. It was clearly an establishment aimed at gringos, but vastly superior to nothing.

I was also pretty underwhelmed by the Mexican food available in Phoenix the last time I went. I think I'm almost better to go to the taqueria a few blocks from home. Jarritos in the window. Lengua in the tacos.

civicmon

as another UCSD alum who decided that he enjoyed life just a bit north of Hades... can testify that there's some excellent Mexican food in the farm country south of Philly/West of Delaware in Kennet Square, PA... A place called Moroleon is absolutely fantastic.

Steph3n

You CAN NOT find good mexican food in Miami Dade County. Tons of Latin American food but not mexican.

gre

How'd you know UCSD ('86, 3rd College) and not SDSU? Because I could form a sentence?

Most of the miserable, tasteless Mexican food down here is premade and put in the freezer for future reheating, except for the tacos where they use hard premade shells ala Taco Bell, or even worse, flour tortillas.

Non-NonRev

Because of the Mexican migrant workers down in the Homestead area (admittedly in the extreme southern end of M-D, but still in the county limits), there are some decent places down there:

http://www.urbanspoon.com/nf/12/1118...an-restaurants

Lufthomie

Out here in Douglas AZ they call it Queso Fundido

Lufthomie

You can't get Mexican food in New Mexico,

One a trip from AZ to Denver we stopped off in Taos for the night.
When asking the B&B owner where we could eat mexican food, her reply was
"well we're New Mexican and we dont cook mexican food here".

BamaVol

You go to Taos for the bread. I found decent Mexican in Santa Fe 30 years ago.