Sunset fajitas (chicken) at Mi Cocina.

I could live on that, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Mamacitas flautas - awesome!

My mexican aunt's tamales at Christmas time...

Homemade food by the mother of a good friend of mine.

This sweet wife of a pastor at a church in McAllen, TX. She was actually Mexican, and made real Mexican food for us (tamales, fajitas, plus some other things I can't name right now). Oh, it was sooooo good.

If you want good Mexican food, you really gotta go to Mexico to get it.

I went to cozumel a few years ago... and we got lost on some backstreet in the barrios... thought i was gonna get asaltado by some vato. But we found found this restaurant/kitchen being ran out of a garage of this house. Best quesadillas de pollo i've ever had.

Has anyone tried the sunset fajitas at Mi Cocina?

I mean...fajita chicken...grilled onions...cheese...and flour tortillas. It is the SHIZZ.

My grandma.

chipotle

Freebirds and Chipotle are vastly overrated...

I really like Mi Cocina in CS on the South Side of the stadium.

I also like.....Joe T Garcia's, La Familia, Mi Cocina (DFW), La Playa Maya, and Rio Mambo. (all in fort worth)

Los Nortenos in Bryan is also one of my favorites.

I have not, Dallas. But I'll definitely make a note to try it out next time I'm in Mi Co's.

Coco Loco @ Welsh & SW Pkwy has pretty good enchiladas.

Rodriguez Inn in Haskell was the place back home to go for cheap, homemade Mexican food served in a shack of a building. The Burrito Deluxe plate was outstanding. You only ordered iced tea in the evenings, because soft drinks were poured out of 2 liter bottles that had been opened at lunch and were flat by 6:00 pm.

Melissa's Kitchen in Stamford hasn't been open very long, but they make great homemade Mexican food. The enchiladas are impressive, the hot sauce will reach up and bite you, and the breakfast burritos (particularly the bean and bacon) are absolutely outstanding.

Then there was Burrito Joe, who comes around the square in Stamford in the mornings to sell breakfast burritos. He sells tamales every couple of months, and they're the best tamales in the state of Texas.

For chains, nothing tops Abuelo's. In fact, chain or not, it ranks high on the list of great Mexican food in Texas. C.S. restaurants are getting a serious upgrade by one opening down here.

If you can't tell, I like Mexican food.

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Welsh and SW Parkway isn't Los Cucos, it's Coco Loco. Los Cucos is the place in Culpepper plaza that always gets shut down for health violations. The enchiladas at Coco Loco are good and they only cost 4.25 on Wed.

Has to be grandma's cooking, can't think of a place that has been better.

People should be slapped for saying chiptole or freebirds.

You are correct, FTACO. I knew that didn't sound right when I wrote it, thanks for setting me straight.

I LOVE the sunset enchiladas at Mia's in Dallas. And their hot sauce is sooo good!

Fajitas are NOT mexican

You just can't beat them sunset fajitas at Mi Cocina.

I mean, it's an orgasm in your mouth.

You'd know.

taco meat

if we are talking tex mex, enchiladas y mas cannot be touched as far as fajitas or hot sauce goes.

and yes, fajitas as NOT mexican food...nor are nachos and about a million other things people normally regard as "mexican" food

if we are talking MEXICAN food, there's actually a place in jersey city, nj called "taqueria" which is run by a couple from mexico city that is f-ing AWESOME!

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La Tapitia in Alpine, TX

close second: Soilitas in Seguin

Overpriced and not actually mexican food, but I gotta go with Pappasitos "Fiesta" platter(serves 6+) - comes with beef and chicken fajitas, sausage, baby back ribs, quail, shrip brochette, and all the fixings including garlic butter. My boss always used to take groups there and order that thing. No wonder the man was huge. But damn that stuff was gut-bustingly delicious.

Just thinking about it is making my mouth water. I haven't had decent mexican food in six months.. I would settle for taco cabana if there was one around here. But there ain't even a damn taco bell.

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You'd know.

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Actually, you're right.

It's not only happened everytime I;ve eaten at Mi Cocina, but it's also happened everytime I've eaten south of the equator.

The vast majority of the mexican places on the thread are not that good. I don't know of one BCS mexican place that compares to some of the top 10 I've had (yes, I've been everywhere mentioned above). If there are others, please enlighten me.

edit: others that are good

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Mup, I've been to all of your top 10, and they are terrible. In fact fully 62% of them have roaches in the kitchen. You call that quality?

Get real.

uhhh... ok

If you haven't been to Tampico Grill, you should really try it if its still there. It's basically in what is just a house behind downtown Bryan with a couple of older Hispanic women runnning it, chickens running around in the yard and a screened patio for eating, but its health dept scores and top nothch and the food is very good.

That said, my favorite Mexican restaurant dish is coming to town with the opening of Abuelo's on University. Try the Chicken Ranchera if you get a chance...not as spicy as they used to make it, but still awfully good. Other than that I love an old menu item at Ninfa's that you can still get made...its fajitas neapolitano and I get them made with pork...tasty!

Piedras Negras de Noche in San Antonio. It is a mile or so south of the Mercado on I-35. The locals eat there, if that tells you anything.

Being Mexican, I love my mom and grandma's cooking along with several of the small no namers in the pueblo or non-chain restaurants in the city of Monterrey.

In the US, my vote for favorite is Fonda San Miguel in Austin. Best authentic and great tasting Mexican food I have eaten. A bit expensive and overpriced, but well worth it.

I love La Bodega in Midland, Texas and Los Barrios in San Antonio-----YUMMY!!

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papacitos!