95% of the mexican restaurants in San Antonio are mex not tex. You gotta go to at least Austin for tex mex. If you see a Taco Bueno you've gone too far.
Ground beef, Velveeta, rotel, flour tortillas, fish bowl margaritas, nachos, caesar salad (really); free unlimited totopos and salsa Mexicana, honorable mention to fajitas & burritos although not actually tex mex. Refried pinto beans made with lard, Spanish rice made with rotel mandatory with all plates. Numbered menu items or entirely renamed dishes to avoid even referencing in passing any actual Mexican cuisine.
Plastic, laminated table cloths, red plastic 40oz textured glasses, parking lot is >80% beat to hell pick up trucks, borderline racist decor and merchandise. If you hear anyone speak Spanish at any point, automatic disqualification.
Depends on what kind. In Mexico, they use double corn tortillas for their tacos, and the fillings are quite different. Tex-Mex has flour tortillas and those savory fillings we all know and love.
You can tell if a cuisine is any good or not by seeing if there are any restaurants outside its home area. Texas BBQ? Yes. Alabama BBQ? No. Mexican food from the interior of Mexico? I have yet to see one except for the USA. Tex-Mex? There's a whole chain of Tex-Mex restaurants in Chengdu.
tacos are definitely mexican food though
He respects tex-mex tacos with the crispy gringo shell :chefs-kiss:
I'm not talking about Taco Bell. I mean the restaurants you can find in San Antonio.
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a tex mex restaurant actually serving crispy shell tacos would be potentially criminal
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95% of the mexican restaurants in San Antonio are mex not tex. You gotta go to at least Austin for tex mex. If you see a Taco Bueno you've gone too far.
Tex-Mex is a spectrum.
I do like Trudy's in Austin.
Ground beef, Velveeta, rotel, flour tortillas, fish bowl margaritas, nachos, caesar salad (really); free unlimited totopos and salsa Mexicana, honorable mention to fajitas & burritos although not actually tex mex. Refried pinto beans made with lard, Spanish rice made with rotel mandatory with all plates. Numbered menu items or entirely renamed dishes to avoid even referencing in passing any actual Mexican cuisine.
Plastic, laminated table cloths, red plastic 40oz textured glasses, parking lot is >80% beat to hell pick up trucks, borderline racist decor and merchandise. If you hear anyone speak Spanish at any point, automatic disqualification.
Fajitas are definitely a Tex-Mex dish. Try ordering them in Mexico and they'll look at you like you just grew a third eye in your forehead.
It's carne asada with a different name. I'll grant you chicken fajitas, though.
Tacodeli then.
Maybe it's changed in the past 15 years since I've been. 🤷 Or rose-colored glasses.
Please walk a little ways down the street from Trudy’s and go to Taco Joint, it’ll change your life. Nothing against Trudy’s, but taco joint is banger
Chuy's and Matt's El Rancho
Depends on what kind. In Mexico, they use double corn tortillas for their tacos, and the fillings are quite different. Tex-Mex has flour tortillas and those savory fillings we all know and love.
You can tell if a cuisine is any good or not by seeing if there are any restaurants outside its home area. Texas BBQ? Yes. Alabama BBQ? No. Mexican food from the interior of Mexico? I have yet to see one except for the USA. Tex-Mex? There's a whole chain of Tex-Mex restaurants in Chengdu.