Best Mexican food in Houston? (Dallas, Richmond: price, store, title)

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by lipbalm

Not a fan of Mexican food here. Cuchara is the exception. By the way what's up with the hot (temperature not spicyness ) salsa? This weirded me out when I first moved here.

Do you mean the Tex mex? It's hit or miss. Los Cucos is dang good though. But there are a lot of good real Mexican places in Houston. Where have you been eating?

[SanJac]

Irma's downtown is as good as it gets...another local favorite is Ninfa's on Navigation.

[CSD610]

https://pappasitos.com/menu/

[lipbalm]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

Do you mean the Tex mex? It's hit or miss. Los Cucos is dang good though. But there are a lot of good real Mexican places in Houston. Where have you been eating?

Been all over. But then again I grew up with ( in Mexico) it so my preferences are heavily biased from memories of my youth.

[IndyRC]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

Do you mean the Tex mex? It's hit or miss. Los Cucos is dang good though. But there are a lot of good real Mexican places in Houston. Where have you been eating?

Los Cucos, the chain, or a similarly named one only type of place? Because the Los Cucos chain is nasty and I fired them a long time ago. Maybe they have improved???

Originally Posted by SanJac

Irma's downtown is as good as it gets...another local favorite is Ninfa's on Navigation.

I keep hearing good things about Irma's and looking forward to trying it. I've only been to Ninfa's on Navigation once and don't really remember what I thought of it.

I like Teotihuacan for something more authentic, but I plan to try some other places mentioned in this thread for sure. For more generic Tex Mex, I'm a fan of Gringo's.

[PinkLadyK]

Tampico for Mexican seafood. Get the snapper a la plancha with fried rice. Yes. Fried rice.

[detachable arm]

This thread should be titled "Where can I find the best Mexican food where uppity whites feel comfortable at?"

[IndyRC]

Originally Posted by detachable arm

This thread should be titled "Where can I find the best Mexican food where uppity whites feel comfortable at?"

Lame

[979Texan]

There's Mexican food, then there is Tex-Mex.

As mentioned Cuchara is GREAT Mexican cuisine. Never been to Hugo's.

For Tex-Mex, El Tiempo is very good but on the expensive end.

The divey places on here usually are pretty solid Tex-Mex options as well. Los Cucos is ass. That should be disregarded first and foremost.

The hilarity of all this is how Mexican and Tex-Mex joints are marking up peasant food and people gladly pay high prices for it. There is absolutely no need for humble peasant cuisine to be high end and expensive.

[HouTxn]

Originally Posted by detachable arm

This thread should be titled "Where can I find the best Mexican food where uppity whites feel comfortable at?"

Sounds accurate. Best place to eat Mexican food is a food trailer/truck/bus that is parked, and does not drive around. Rule of thumb, if the restaurant serves yellow cheese on the food, it's tex mex.