Mexican Food

[mustang1200]

Mi Dia From Scratch is good, but it's overpriced for Mexican food.

[krazy kris]

El sombrero,el paseo, or el Cerrito
Sombrero good enchiladas and fajitas
Paseo good enchiladas, fajitas, and top shelf margaritas
Cerrito the best home made hot sauce and tortillas good everything else

[Shorty]

Yep, they invented the Frozen Margarita machine also per the signs everywhere.

ftfy

[stangin4lyfe]

Mariano's in Arlington and Dallas has bad ass fajitas and everything else. If you want to try a little of everything get "The Whole Enchilada platter". Its a serving plate with a plate on the side also and two people can share it. We also get the big mixed fajita plate at times and it is a lot of food. I think he ownes La Hacenda also and they have pretty good food and a similar monster platter.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/13/165850/restaurant/Marianos-Mexican-Arlington

Fuel City does have some good tacos also.

x2

I usually eat an appetizer(chicken nachos) and then chicken fajitas for two or the whole enchilada...it's a 20" plate with 7 items and beans and rice, but pretty easy to eat.
Try the red salsa at Mariano's, La Hacienda does not carry it.

[Tyrone Biggums]

Mariano's get my vote.

[kingjason]

x2

I usually eat an appetizer(chicken nachos) and then chicken fajitas for two or the whole enchilada...it's a 20" plate with 7 items and beans and rice, but pretty easy to eat.
Try the red salsa at Mariano's, La Hacienda does not carry it.

I have ate it myself a few times after to many chips and salsa. It is not that I didn't feel great afterwards, but yeah I didn't feel great.

[VaderTT]

I'd tell you to join me for dinner one night, but you'd drive around the parking lot and go home. And I don't know if you know how to handle yourself in MILF town.

In for MTGTG.

[bcoop]

Yep, they invented the Frozen Margarita also per the signs everywhere.

I'm aware, I do business with Mariano.

Do you like their food? I need to make it up to Mi Dia and give it a try on my next cheat day.

It's good for Tex Mex. Mi Dia and Mariano's are two very, very different restaurants, with very different food.

[bcoop]

ftfy

Correct. He didn't invent the frozen margarita, just the machine. The idea came from a slurpee machine, of all things.

[kingjason]

I never actually did any research on it until today. Pretty cool.

http://www.themargaritamasters.com/margaritas

World’s First Frozen Margarita Machine
The world’s first frozen margarita machine, invented on May 11, 1971 by Dallas restaurateur Mariano Martinez. More than 30 years ago, Martinez modified a soft-serve ice cream machine into the first frozen Margarita machine, which created a mass-produced and consistent beverage. Prompted by increased customer demand, the young restaurant owner was inspired by a frozen drink machine he saw at a local convenience store. Frozen Margaritas have been around since the invention of the blender in the 1930s but bartenders were often overwhelmed when demand was high, and the blenders produced Margaritas of varying quality and consistency.


“Improved consistency, overall better product and ease of use due to the frozen Margarita machine, made the drink so popular that it brought bars in Tex-Mex restaurants front and center,” said Martinez. “People came to Mariano’s for that frozen Margarita out of the machine.”


Martinez continued serving his famous Margaritas for the next 34 years, eventually retiring the original machine in favor of the new mass-produced machines. Exerpts from The Smithsonians National Museum of American History, Valeska Hilbig and Laura Duff.

The Margarita
The margarita has quietly and steadily become an international phenomenon, and according to Gourmet magazine, it is the now most popular cocktail in the United States.

Margaritas
Where did they come from?

No one knows for sure, but there a few different stories, so take your pick...
•In the early 1930's, it was created at the Caliente Race Track in Tijuana.
•In 1936, Danny Negrete invented this drink for his girlfriend, Margarita, while working at the Garci Crespo Hotel.
•Margarita Sames, a wealthy Texan, came up with the drink at a party in 1938. She enjoyed experimenting behind the bar and came up with a drink that was 3/4 Tequila and 1/4 Cointreau with a lime. Since it was "her" drink, it was called a "Margarita".
•Sometime in the 1940's, Enrique Bastante Gutierez created this drink for Rita Hayworth, who's real name was Margarita.
•In 1942 at Rancho del Gloria Bar in Rosarita Beach, Mexico, Marjorie King asked the bartender, Danny Hererra, to mix her a cocktail because she was "allergic" to straight alcohol. The drink Hererra came up with was Tequila over shaved ice and Triple Sec. In Spanish, Marjorie translates into "Margarita", hence the name of the drink.
•On the 4th of July,In 1942 at Tommy's Place in Juarez, Mexico, bartender Pancho Morales couldn't remember how to make a "magnolia" when a customer asked for the drink. Morales knew that a "magnolia" included Cointreau, so he added in Tequila and called it a "Margarita", after the word for "daisy" in Spanish.
•In 1948 Margaret Sames created this drink for a party she was holding in Acapulco.
•In 1948 it was created in Galveston, Texas by Santos Cruz. Who mixed it up for singer Peggy Lee.
•In the early 1950's It was created at the "Tail o' the Cock" restaurant in Los Angeles in order to find a way to introduce Jose Cuervo Tequila into the market.

[Mr_Fiux]

All I saw was Taco this taco that. Remember there is a south Mexico too... Where is a good place to eat Pueblan food or Tampiqueña? People on the coast know how to make good fish dishes, and Pueblans are king of Mole.

[bcoop]

All I saw was Taco this taco that. Remember there is a south Mexico too... Where is a good place to eat Pueblan food or Tampiqueña? People on the coast know how to make good fish dishes, and Pueblans are king of Mole.

Mi Dia is Mexico City Authentic. They have an EXCELLENT Tampiquena, and a few dishes with mole. A lot of people say "It's too expensive for Mexican food", when in reality, what they are used to is cheaply made, crap Tex Mex.

MD is made fresh daily, in house, and not at all TexMex, though they do have a couple TexMex dishes to appeal to the masses. But things like chayote, duck confit, chile morita, pepita pesto, and crema are all things you won't find in tex mex restuarants, but are made fresh and served daily at MD. Another reason MD is higher priced, is the clientel they target, and they have an actual chef. It's not Juan and Jesus in the back warming up prepackaged food.

[pHILSANITY07]

There is a La Hacinda Ranch near my job that is part of the Mariano's chain, I forgot about that place. Its pretty damn good

[The King]

Iranian ex-pat Zarathustra's restaurant in (Denton?)

[Rick Modena]

I only go to Tipicos, Tachitos. There aint no fake packaged shit there. I go to Abeulos about once a month.