All stories about "Mexican"

It's a workday. You've peeled yourself up from your soft, warm bed only to be crunched into a humid subway(s) to get to a job you can't stand. You deserve a treat; a salty, sour and sweet treat that comes in a glass as big as your head and can knock you on your ass. The blessed margarita. You may still be stuck in midtown hell, but hey, it's quitting time and you've got a crush on a coworker who just so happens to love tequila. Get to it -- these margaritas aren't going to drink themselves. (photo)

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We've already covered some of the places you can go for the best Los Angeles tacos, but there are times, like after a half-dozen margaritas, when quantity is better than quality. There are plenty of restaurants out there featuring a "Taco Tuesday" where you can grab a multitude of tacos, sometimes for less than a dollar each. They might not always be the most authentic, but you know the price is right. And even if you can't get outside on a Tuesday, this taco-crazy town will keep you awash in inexpensive Mexican(ish) eats almost every day of the week.

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Good Mexican food can be exceedingly hard to find in NYC . . . but a delicious Tres Leches cake is perhaps even harder. This deceivingly simple milk-soaked butter cake includes three types of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk, and either whole milk or cream. Essentially it's Mexico's answer to Italian tiramisu or Grand Cayman rum cake. Despite all the lactose, a great Tres Leches slice is typically light, savory and cooling -- an ideal afterthought to the fiery enchiladas verdes you just ingested. After the jump, where to head for a great one. (photo)

It took us a week to get through to this Mexican restaurant Taqueria del Alamillo, and the first available reservation was for two weeks later. What!? Rare for a little eatery in La Latina, but well worth the wait. Well ... almost.

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It's a good thing that only around 1000 Mexican nationals live in Sydney, because the Mexican food scene here is largely of the greasy mince and 'too much sour cream is never enough' genre. One of the factors contributing to the dearth of decent Mexican restaurants in Sydney could be the confusion that the average Aussie has between bland old 'Tex Mex' and genuine Mexican cuisine. But perhaps hope is on the horizon, and leading the revolution would have to be the well-loved tacquerias that are part of the Guzman y Gomez franchise. Starting with this sour cream-free institution, here is a collection of Mexican restaurants that you would maybe only slightly cringe to take a Mexican to.

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It's a Los Angeles culinary riddle: what's on practically every corner of the city, but will never be covered by the LAT's food section? Here's another clue: unlike a lot of LA cuisine, it only gets worse the further west you go, and there are no high-class versions peddling their wares for $7 an item in Brentwood. The answer is LA's panaderias (Mexican bakeries, for those of you not up on your Spanish), and they're churning out incredibly delicious baked treats, both sweet and savory, all over town. Below, a guide to some of city's most beloved panaderias; share the tres leches love (and help make it more comprehensive) by commenting with your favorite.

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Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and big-headed celeb chef Todd English announced plans for a Mexican restaurant Beso (means kiss in Spanish!) back in February. And how time flies. The place had its preview party Wednesday and should be opening soon (as soon as they get their liquor license, that is). This is great news for self-proclaimed domestic goddess and supposed excellent Mexican cook Longoria, as the writers for her hit show hunker down for a possibly long and drawn-out strike. [via]

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There are fewer dining institutions more quintessentially LA than the taco truck. The gritty urban environment, the surreptitious ethos of a late night food run, the obviously fabricated health board certification -- these and more are the evidence that you are in the presence of authentic taco truck cuisine. New email list The Rundown has compiled their list of favorites, which we are dutifully passing on to you with the addition of cumshot jokes. Because around here we like things classy.

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It doesn't matter how many times we wake up and realize that we were (painfully) wrong - seven or so drinks into the evening, the thought "if we eat greasy Mexican food now it will stop the hangover before it starts" always seems reasonable. In theory, this should be an air-tight physiological argument. In practice, it often turns out that the mystery taco meat of the evening joins forces with the alcohol to create new and interesting kinds of morning-after misery. Which is how the world should be.

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Whether it's chicken, pork or beef with our beans, rice and cheese, Mexican food hardly ever fails to please. It's the ultimate hangover food, among the most satisfying takeout, and the messiest in date cuisine. In sweaty-hot back kitchens throughout the city, some of the best Mexican food to be had in the country is being whipped up en masse. Seriously, so much was never done with a dash of cilantro and lime. For every 'hood in the city, there are a different set of favorite restaurants vying for the hearts and stomachs of the people. Picks for the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill areas of Brooklyn, after the jump.

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This Sunday, May 20, San Loco -- the local New York mini-chain of cheap Mexican restaurants -- will celebrate its 20th anniversary by selling 20-cent tacos at all four locations. It's only hard-shell tacos with beef or bean & rice, and the limit is five such tacos per customer. The taco frenzy begins at 11 a.m., and is only valid "while supplies last." Guessing that means it won't last much past lunch, if at all.

San Loco [Official site]

-- Chris Mohney

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Don't blink, or you'll miss Yola's Cafe. This Mexican hole in the wall, located a few steps below a busy stretch of Metropolitan Avenue in second-stop Williamsburg, Brooklyn, isn't much to look at, but the food is so good that it's rapidly becoming one of my favorite restaurants in New York. I've always been a fan of their big beefy burritos, but lately I've been working through their recurring daily specials, all of which impress. Corn shuck-wrapped tamales come stuffed with tangy chicken or sublime adobo pork. Fish tacos, each with a perfectly flaky flounder filet swaddled with salad and guacamole in two flour tortillas, could easily be served at a fancier restaurant at twice the price. Yola's is mostly a take-out and delivery place, but there are two tiny tables as well as four revolving bar stools set against a six-inch-wide counter. To kill the seven or so minutes it takes for your order to be ready, go to the bodega next door for a $3 quart of Tecate (last cooler on the left, bottom shelf), pound a tequila shot across the street at the Subway Bar, or just enjoy the hilarious Spanish-language soap operas on the TV.

Yola's Cafe [Menu Pages]

-- Victor Ozols

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London restaurateur Tom Conran (son of famous restaurateur Terence Conran) has a thing for American fast food, or more diplomatically, comfort food. Like several other English takes on American diners, his Lucky 7 in Westbourne Grove -- not far from his slightly classier oyster house, the Cow -- dishes out burgers galore, along with some relatively and incongruously highbrow dishes like seared tuna with rosemary flageolet beans. Service is notoriously bad, though the food has its fans. Expanding on the concept, Conran opened Crazy Homies next door, and it's proven so popular that the two restaurants have all but fused into one venue. The Tex-Mex fare at Crazy Homies may in fact be eclipsing its predecessor, based on popularity with crowds. Both rooms are small, and the downstairs is often off-limits (too bad, as it's got history as a setting for some of the action in the John Profumo scandal. Service at Homies is reputedly no better than at Lucky 7, which hasn't scared off the mobs yet.

Lucky 7 and Crazy Homies [via Le Cool]

-- Chris Mohney

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One doesn't think of Toronto when it comes to fine Mexican cuisine, and that assumption is not disproved by a BlogTO review of Burritos Mexican Food (1353 St. Clair Ave. West, at Lansdowne). The wonderfully minimalist name of the joint apparently doesn't balance its negligible sit-down appeal, despite a first encounter with an acceptable beef burrito. Finding good and cheap/reasonable Mexican is always difficult in any gringo city, even in ostensibly cosmopolitan New York. Still, something about the "Burritos Mexican Food" name conjures up an elegant simplicity, like it could be applied to some high-end Nuevo Latino joint that makes $36 flautas with Kobe beef.

Burritos Mexican Food: Beef Burrito or Bust [BlogTO]

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