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So it seems the Mexican food selections in NYC are growing! I live nearby and would like to take advantage.

All over the Mexican neighborhoods you can find taquerias that sell the usual antojito stuff, but where should I go for more traditional dishes that you wouldn't find on every last taqueria menu? I'm open to going to any of the boroughs really. But if there is anything in Bushwick, that would be great since I go there a lot.

>> No.11263718

>>11263701
First off it's not that tacquerias are "inauthentic" it's just that traditionally the NYC mexican joints that catered to Mexicans were really shoddy, crappy, stale ingredients and depressing interiors. Now that the Mexican community has a bit more of a foothold things have gotten somewhat better. WIth "better" comes some "traditoinal" stuff with better execution, but also some nontraditional stuff like Cosme, which admittedly is not in the same bracket as any of the rest, but is perfectly Mexican, just not the Mexican you were expecting.

With more visibility you also get pretty plausible (if overpriced) gringo takes on Mexican food, like the Tacombi empire, which is sorta like a fantasy version of an old timey Mexico City tacqueria, you can pay $20 for an authentic caguama in a paper bag and huff down $7 tacos surrounded by rich people from Chelsea. That food is far better than the horrific early 2000s "authentic" Mexican food you'd find in the outer boroughs, catering to poor Mexican laborers, and arguably more authentic tasting. But those once poor Mexican laborers are now working-class, with some spending money, and where they're going these days is worth going to.

You'd be a fool to miss out on La Morada, obviously, otherwise the best general purpose Mexican neighborhood in the 5 boroughs, near your gentrified basic bitch white girl neighborhood, is going to be Sunset Park. Don Pepe has some of the best, if not the best tortas and cemitas I've had outside of Puebla.

Also did I say fuck bushwick yet? Fuck bushwick.

>> No.11263724

>>11263718
No I never implied taquerias there were inauthentic, just very repetitive in terms of menu. As for sit down kind of places, I do see large groups of Chicanos eating in the sit down Tacos El Bronco, so it's not like there's not a demand within the Mexican community for food beyond antojitos. I even know a Nuyomexican woman as old as 28, they're mostly a young population but they're starting to reach adulthood in large numbers.

Don't h8 on Bushwick man, it's my favorite neighborhood in Brooklyn. I did get some mediocre Mexican food from a truck there one time, though. However everything else I've had was good. I think Bushwick has a great, affordable nightlife scene too and is just an all around convenient, happening neighborhood.

>> No.11263727

>>11263718
Also, I'm not even remotely scared of The Bronx, I have walked around Mott Haven piss drunk at 10PM before. It's just not convenient for me to get too, and my cheap, uncultured friends aren't gonna make the trip with me. I might ask my Mexican friend from Bushwick if she wants to go with me. She seems cool with long train rides.

>> No.11263730

>>11263727
>I'm not scared of the Bronx
And yet you're scared of dining alone. Pathetic.

>> No.11263732

>>11263730
I know, right? I'll eat alone at some places, but La Morada is a very intimate, waitstaffed restaurant.
Maybe I'll drag my family there for my birthday in February. I don't wanna wait that long though, I've been wanting to go to this place for like a year.

>> No.11263738

>>11263732
>here's what it's like to eat at X
>I've been waiting to eat at X for a long time

>> No.11263744

>>11263738
I read a lot of reviews and have seen pictures, that's how I know what the interior is like.

>> No.11263752

>>11263744
You're making it into way too big of a deal and you're going to be disappointed.

>> No.11263760

>>11263752
Disappointed by what? I'm not expecting the place to give me an orgasm

>> No.11263764

>>11263760
By the fact that it's a casual neighborhood restaurant and not the Oaxacan version of Tour d'Argent.

>> No.11263767

>>11263764
No I know that, the only big deal I'm making out of it is being too much of a pussy to go by myself. Honestly though, I don't even see why "fine dining" is inherently better. Is it really that much more enjoyable than a high quality neighborhood place?

>> No.11263777

>>11263767
I didn’t say fine dining was better. You implied that it was in some way inappropriate to eat alone at La Morada because it is supposedly “intimate” and for romantic couples and/or celebrations

>> No.11263783

>>11263777
no haha, that's not what I meant by intimate. I just meant that it's small so it's not one of those places you can just get "lost" in.

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>>11263701
Next time you're in Brooklyn, I suggest you try this little hole-in-the-wall taqueria called "Taco Bell".

>> No.11264126

>>11264098
I didn't even chuckle

>> No.11264389

anyone here tried Mesa Coyoacan?

>> No.11265264
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11265264

I've only had good Mexican food in two places. San Diego, and Mexico. No idea what it is that happens to Mexicans when they leave these places but I've yet to find anything close anywhere in the US.

Not hating, wishing you luck with this NYC.

>> No.11266256

>>11265264
You're just not in the know

>> No.11266322

>>11263701
your my son anon go home
go back to california
>>11264098
union sq?

>> No.11266325

>>11263718
thank you

>> No.11266350

>>11263701
Go to Brooklyn. Go to La Nortena

Thank me later

It's in greenpoint

>> No.11266372

>>11265264
Philly. El Compadre/South Philly Barbacoa.

>> No.11266568

just wanna say that gaby’s pizza is overrated and wasn’t worth hauling ass to the wankstain that is queens

>> No.11267619

>>11266568
I've never heard of gaby's pizza
>204-23 Hillside Avenue, Hollis, NY 11423
Well, I could have told you it would suck

In the future the only areas of Queens worth visiting are along the 7 train

>> No.11267719

>>11267619
7, N, and M actually.

The J and A too to some extent

>> No.11267786

>>11267719
No, not really. Pretty much just the 7. Definitely not the A, are you nuts?

>> No.11267879

>>11267786
The N train goes to LIC and Astoria, the M goes to Ridgewood, and the A goes through various ethnic neighborhoods with good food, plus the Rockaways which can be a nice summer getaway.

You don't know what you're talking about, you live in Manhattan and have been to Queens like 3 times

>> No.11267892

>>11267879
>LIC
So, overpriced meme restaurants? Also the 7 goes through LIC so I'm not sure your point.
>Astoria
"Greek" diners for yoga roasties having $25 brunches with unlimited mimosas?
>Ridgewood
Literally nothing?
>various ethnic neighborhoods
You mean like every other neighborhood everywhere? Except, far inferior to the Sunnyside/Woodside/Jackson Heights/Elmhurst/Corona/Flushing corridor?
>the Rockaways
Eye-talian joints run by retired mafia dons?

The prosecution rests, your honor.

>> No.11267986

>>11267892
Again, you're clueless. Astoria is a destination neighborhood and is very diverse, with all sorts of food options.

Ridgewood is poppin, there are lots of bars and clubs there. As far as restaurants there is all sorts of Latin stuff, as well as Polish and German.

Maybe you shouldn't speak on things you have barely any experience with.

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Have any of you come across people selling elote out of shopping carts or is that more of a west coast thing? Anyways if you do come across shopping cart elote guy I'd recommend it

>> No.11268015

>>11268000
ok west coast... time to get your shit together. this is one of the most wetback things i've heard.

>> No.11268488

>>11267986
Yeah Astoria sure is "diverse". White women, white men, white babies in strollers. Very diverse.

It's the Park Slope of Queens, and has no culture. Deal with it.

>>11268000
People sell all kinds of shit out of carts in NYC, obviously not on 63rd and Park, but in the regular people neighborhoods yes

>> No.11268497

>>11263701
Artizonafag here. Call. If they speak English well, hang up, call another.

>> No.11268513

>>11268488
that is the best kind of diverse.

>> No.11268539

i have personally given up on like baller west coast style Mexican happening here

the taco truck on 2nd and a is good and solid for tortas and casitas, i think they ha e a storefront on 9th. also downtown bakery no. 2 on first. lupes is great for like goofy tex max enchilada style stuff.

that said i am more willing to go to mexico for mexican food than i am queens so idk

>> No.11268741

>>11268513
Don't you have a green bean hotdish thread to be posting in?
>>11268539
West coast Mexican is terrible though, it's like East Coast eye-talian.

>> No.11269486

>>11264389
That cheese is nasty

>> No.11269495

>>11268741
>West coast Mexican is terrible though, it's like East Coast eye-talian.
Retard

>> No.11269500

>>11269495
He's not wrong though.

Source: am him.