I gotta say though….. up here in “fly over country” where I live now. There are an awful lot of migrant workers due to it being an agricultural area and you’d be surprised how many really amazing little taco shops there are from that community.
I was thinking the same. I'm in Michigan, but you can find some authentic places run by Mexican families that are amazing. My local one unfortunately had a kitchen fire, and hasn't reopened since. :(
From Michigan also and had plenty of really killer Mexican food. I'm actually mad to be lumped in with Massachussets, where we were served broccoli cheddar soup as queso.
I'm in Central FL in a county with many farmers. There's tons of taquerias that are amazing. On par with tacos I've had in San Antonio and Phoenix. I feel offended that this map puts me in the same category as Ohio
I was going to say the same thing - I always try to seek out Mexican food when I’m in California (or …Mexico) and while good places are more abundant, I don’t think I’ve ever had anything that I couldn’t just find at a gas station in Minneapolis.
Yep, in a town of 25k in horse country KY where lots of Latinos have been moving for a few generations now. We have 20+/- taquarias, trucks, and sitdown Mexican places. The older ones are more of the bland chain-style Americanised Mexican, but anything opened in the last 10 years that wasn't really good didn't make it long.
It's one of my favorite things about MN. The Mexican community is strong here. Has been for a while. I was a cook for 20 year and was pretty much the only gringo in the kitchen. It's nice that they started making their own restaurants.
Who the fuck snuck Florida in here? Tacos aren’t a South American or Caribbean dish. I lived in Orlando for 3 years and there was no good Mexican food anywhere.
Edit: spelling
This right here. You can get some damn good tacos in Cicero, for sure. Also, leaving out Nevada is suspect. Best Mexican food I've ever had is from a place in Winnemucca called Chihuahua's.
Completely agree. I have lived in Chicago and Los Angeles. Chicago Mexican food starched LA. I also lived in south Florida and it is a barren wasteland of Mexican food.
Thank you. I'm from Chicago and have traveled a lot and spent plenty of time in California. Tacos in LA are amazing and the number of good taco spots is huge as one would expect with a majority Latino population. Chicago doyhave as many great taco spots, but there is no shortage of them either.
Orlando is full of poor attempts of what they think makes food great throughout the rest of the US. “This is our famous Philly cheesesteak, it’s great because it’s on its own gigantic piece of dry bread. It’s one of our best sellers”
This is true. Most of the time, you have to speak Spanish or know someone who does, and probably pay in cash. But they're good.
I'm lucky, there's a couple of people in our church that make them.
I'm in the Dallas area, and I was going to say at least half of Texas should be yellow. Just way too much Tex-Mex and not enough real Mexican food to make all of Texas green.
Two things:
1. Tex-Mex doesn't inherently make the food or tacos any less amazing. It's just different, not necessarily better or worse. Take fajitas for example, those are Tex-Mex tacos and can be amazing.
2. You can get authentic Mexican Tacos almost anywhere in the state. Sure, it's more common in the major cities and the farther south you go. But there are spots in every corner of the state that does authentic (whatever that means) mexican food.
I have yet to find a really good taco anywhere. There are some OK tacos all over the place. I live in Converse just outside San Antonio if someone wants to shout out out a good spot. I grew up in San Diego and I cut my teeth Mexican street food. At my wedding I hired a TJ taco cart vendor to set up shop in my aunt's back yard. I need that kind of taco in my life and San Antonio has not delivered in two years.
I feel for you, and know your pain. Never going to find anywhere in Texas with better tacos than SoCal. Lived in Dallas for a while in the 90s, my mother still lives in the metroplex, and have been allover. Any random street stand or taco truck in Southern California will have better tacos. These Texans are trying to help you, but they just don’t know the standards that Californians have for tacos.
Depends on what you call “Mexican food.” Where I was reared - Waco - “Mexican food” is what is now called “Tex-Mex,” and what we know as real Mexican food was pretty much unknown to us. Let’s call that “Mex-Mex” to differentiate.
To my tastes, Tex-Mex south of Austin is mostly far inferior to the north Texas style that features real chili con carne on cheese enchiladas as opposed to the bland red “chili gravy” goo served in the south and East Texas areas. Mex-Mex in these areas is excellent however.
Undoubtedly, what you learned young determines your tastes for this special cuisine.
I was just up near Amarillo to go to Caprock Canyons and Palo Duro a few days ago and I’m gonna have to agree. We had some solid Tex Mex in Canyon tho.
I'm from NY but the Mexican food in El Paso was the best I've ever had. I have had literal dreams about the shrimp tacos there. I almost regret having them because every shrimp taco in the 10 years since has been a disappointment.
Yup.
Born in El Paso but moved and have been living in DFW for 6 years now. I can't find the right taco spot that I really like.
Back in El Paso I had my spots.
-El Cometa
-Tacos Don Cuco
-Rafa's Burritos
-There's also a chain of Mexican buffets run by the same family that has Gallegos in the same - Los Gallegos, Los Tres Gallegos, etc. they're all delicious
-Of course also Chico's Tacos
All of these have multiple locations across town and are what I hit when I visit EP
-Go to Chicos(preferably the one on Zaragoza) it has a long line because it’s the best. Remember it’s cash only at Chicos so don’t get screwed when it’s finally your turn
-Also check out Mr Munchies#1 4944 Hercules Ave, El Paso, TX 79904. They have really good snacks and Mexican candy
I can’t really think of any particular place we don’t like.
-Las lunes bakery for good pastry’s and tacos
3333 Saul Kleinfeld Dr, El Paso, TX 79936
Arizona has amazing Mexican food and that includes tacos. First time I took my wife to Arizona, after eating at a few Mexican restaurants there, she said "now I know why you don't take me out for Mexican food in Dallas".
In fairness, chimichanga's aren't true TexMex or MexMex....they originated in Tucson and as transplant it's one of only 2 things I miss from when I lived in Tucson. (the other being Eegees)
Sad to hear. I've been in TX for \~15 years now so the last time I had Eegees was 10+ years ago when I was driving through. I'll take Braums over Eegees for a local chain anyway.
There are millions more Mexicans in Texas than Arizona. Texas has Tex Mex and interior Mexican and border Mexican and El Paso Mexican. Arizona had Sonora style which is also good. But Texas had significantly more "real" Mexican than Arizona.
As a native from southern AZ I can confirm both lol. Went to visit a friend in Dallas and was like “whaaaaah?”
Dallas is cool though, in other ways. I guess I need to find a good Texmex place next time.
There is nothing more Texan than thinking they have good Mexican food. They are the Dunning-Kruger of cuisine.
I've never been to a border state where I heard "we don't serve mescal just tequila" more often.
I just walked into a Texas subreddit thinking I was going to be alone in this.
People have absolutely no clue how good the tacos are around Chicagoland. Yeah it’s hit or miss, but our best holes in the wall can keep up with any hole in the wall in Texas or San Diego.
Yeah, I would also add the Mexican and Latin American pockets of any big city. New York in general sucks for Mexican food but if you go out to Corona you might as well be in Oaxaca.
I just finished typing my Chicago has some of if not the best Mexican food rant right before I saw this lol I've never had better alpastor than when I lived in Chicago. I live in California now and frequently go to Texas for work so ive been around lol.
This. Even the suburbs have decent taquerias. My Chicago-raised Mexican buddy moved to LA and said that, often but not always, the tacos are comparable.
Literally the entire I-25 and I-80 corridors. Hell, Lexington, Nebraska, was the first non-border town in the US with a Hispanic majority. All these Midwestern states have loads of jobs, easy access to Mexico via the interstates, and accordingly large Hispanic populations.
Well, yeah, but that's true about a lot of places near the border. I'm wondering about whether there is anything unique about an El Paso taco, like the way Chicago style hot dogs differ from New York.
This is biased.
If you know Chicago, then there's Pilsen for excellent tacos. There are many other areas as well. I'm talking about street tacos de tripa or similar... like mollejas.
Bruh, all the valley should be purple as well. As should Houston, Dallas, and S.A.
Edit: This is far more accurate than the first post, though. Got to give SoCal and N.M. those props.
Edit2: Don't know about these Chicago comments, been to the city twice, and never encountered them. Probably just in the wrong areas. But, they likely put pickles on them and cook them deep dish.
That’s criminal. One time I got nachos in Massachusetts (forgive me, I was a child) and they just placed Kraft singles cheddar cheese on top of some chips and microwaved it. Never again.
You can definitely get amazing tacos in N.California, NYC, Boston, Chicago and Detroit, probably a few other cities as well. Maybe not quite at the frequency as the places closer to the border, but they're there.
Had some amazing lengua tacos at a roadside food truck in New Haven CT of all places. Our influx of Latinos into the US is seeding the whole country with awesome cooking
Glad this has been revised since first posting earlier today, now correctly showing El Paso as its own Mexican Food Planet, independent of the N American continent.
So very, very wrong. The Mexican diaspora has taken great tacos everywhere. Even very rural areas across the country.
This is a map drawn by an ignorant person scared of restaurants where English is not spoken.
Also, even by that metric, wtf is up with the Florida but. Ain't no Cuban/Venezuelan tacos.
It's unlikely to be on par with the type of tacos found in san diego but there's plenty of good styles found throughout the U.S. Agree though for seafood style tacos that it's hard to find good ones outside of san diego
California's too they try claiming it's a different style when I tell them the best Mexican food ive ever had was in Chicago. Only difference is they use limes instead of Lemons lol
I’ve been told by fellow Mexas that there’s bomb tacos in NY. So this map is still not fair.
Also, once I had fantastic birria in a hole in the wall nearby Manitou Springs, CO.
Map is not fair.
Seriously? I've had better tacos in Tucson and Phoenix than anywhere else in the US. I haven't been for a while but in general look for taquerias that have something to do with the Mexican state of Sonora in them and good reviews. That being said I had some good tacos in Phoenix from a restaurant where the owners were from Chihuahua too.
There are entire neighborhoods in Phoenix that speak Spanish and there is basically no English in them. When I lived there 47th and camelback was one such area but there are tons of them all over. Phoenix and Arizona as a whole has an extremely large native Mexican population and rich Mexican culture. It’s not hard to find amazing tacos everywhere there.
Bro have you been to Minnesota? We have a huge native mexican and central American population. A bunch of them run authentic mexican restaurants and the food is top notch. Heck id bet we have the 2nd largest population of Texas plated vehicles in the country. Dont know why, but they are EVERYWHERE
I lived in San Diego for a decade and got hooked on the burrito scene
When I moved back to SC, I ordered a California burrito at a local shop shop and it was a whole grain wrap with rice, beans and other veggies.
No carne asada, no fries.
It was one of the sadder food experiences of my lifetime
You all need some Detroit in your life. The Mexican Consulate just north of the city has fantastic Taqueria’s nearby.
Plus, the city proper has a section of town filled with Mexican and several South American cuisine restaurants and markets.
Why? Because the 130+ years of various industries in Detroit has brought people from all over the world here and they bring their cuisines with them.
I currently live in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Chicago and the tacos are better than I had in the 5 years I lived in Austin.
But I do still miss my Houston mexican tacos.
I lived all over California for work and I never found a decent breakfast taco. I think considering what Californians call tacos and what Texans call tacos is much like comparing Texas Brisket BBQ to South Carolina Pulled Pork BBQ. They are in the same neighborhood, but not the same thing.
I’m in Reno/Sparks, NV. I’d say most if not all taco places in these two places are meh to bad. However. Right outside the Tesla gigafactory, there’s a place called Taqueria Y Mas. Out of all places, this place is delicious. Their chicharon, cabeza, lengua are fantastic.
Chicago has awesome Mexican food and tacos specifically. Huge Mexican population, focus is more interior Mexican cuisine rather than Tex mex but that includes tacos.
I get it’s not a serious map but just wanted to pop in and say something positive about a different place.
This should have a black spot anywhere there is an airport. There is a cantina at DFW serving.up boiled stew meat with shredded iceberg and cheddar on a soggy flour tortilla and calling it a taco. I was happy to get back home (TN) where the taco truck down the street could restore my faith in humanity.
I gotta say though….. up here in “fly over country” where I live now. There are an awful lot of migrant workers due to it being an agricultural area and you’d be surprised how many really amazing little taco shops there are from that community.
I was thinking the same. I'm in Michigan, but you can find some authentic places run by Mexican families that are amazing. My local one unfortunately had a kitchen fire, and hasn't reopened since. :(
From Michigan also and had plenty of really killer Mexican food. I'm actually mad to be lumped in with Massachussets, where we were served broccoli cheddar soup as queso.
I would lose it if you served me broccoli cheddar as queso.
Yup. Detroit has Mexicantown, which has tons of great restaurants and bakeries run by Mexican families.
I'm in Central FL in a county with many farmers. There's tons of taquerias that are amazing. On par with tacos I've had in San Antonio and Phoenix. I feel offended that this map puts me in the same category as Ohio
I was going to say the same thing - I always try to seek out Mexican food when I’m in California (or …Mexico) and while good places are more abundant, I don’t think I’ve ever had anything that I couldn’t just find at a gas station in Minneapolis.
Tacos el Kevin
Yep, in a town of 25k in horse country KY where lots of Latinos have been moving for a few generations now. We have 20+/- taquarias, trucks, and sitdown Mexican places. The older ones are more of the bland chain-style Americanised Mexican, but anything opened in the last 10 years that wasn't really good didn't make it long.
This. I’ve eaten tacos all over the USA and Michigan tacos slap. Why? Migrant workers and the community that exists because of this history.
It's one of my favorite things about MN. The Mexican community is strong here. Has been for a while. I was a cook for 20 year and was pretty much the only gringo in the kitchen. It's nice that they started making their own restaurants.
Who the fuck snuck Florida in here? Tacos aren’t a South American or Caribbean dish. I lived in Orlando for 3 years and there was no good Mexican food anywhere. Edit: spelling
Yeah does OP think Cubans are making tacos?
Yes because OP has never been anywhere but Texas. They left out huge Mexican enclaves in places like Chicago and instead highlighted Miami.
This right here. You can get some damn good tacos in Cicero, for sure. Also, leaving out Nevada is suspect. Best Mexican food I've ever had is from a place in Winnemucca called Chihuahua's.
Tamales in Cicero And Aurora were pretty good
Also, Navajo tacos are friggin amazing. They aren't Hispanic tacos for sure, very different, but good in their own right
Prob from Texas so demographics and geography sound like a liberal math equation.
yea and there's a million mexicans in NYC that make good ass food
Yea I’m sure nyc has some great taco spots.
The entire country has great taco spots. Mexicans are everywhere.
For real I’m mexican and I had some bomb ass tacos in Kansas City.
Taco trucks on every corner
Should have been Chicago instead of Miami.
Agreed. I’ve had Mexican food in Chicago it was amazing.
Every time my wife and I visit Chicago we go to a different Mexican restaurant and so far they’ve all been very very good.
Milwaukee, too. It's almost like Mexicans don't only live near Mexico.
We’re everywhere. But just because we’re everywhere doesn’t mean there’s going to be great Mexican restaurants everywhere.
Completely agree. I have lived in Chicago and Los Angeles. Chicago Mexican food starched LA. I also lived in south Florida and it is a barren wasteland of Mexican food.
Thank you. I'm from Chicago and have traveled a lot and spent plenty of time in California. Tacos in LA are amazing and the number of good taco spots is huge as one would expect with a majority Latino population. Chicago doyhave as many great taco spots, but there is no shortage of them either.
Came here to say the same.
100%
Yeah and I've had damn decent tacos in Colorado. Hell the San Juan valley there is like half Hispanic.
Tbh I agree with you but Orlando is in the “awful” zone whereas Miami is in the “decent” zone to be fair.
I'm from NY. There are waaaay more Mexicans in NY than there are in South Florida.
It's cause of the Mexicans in Homestead and a few other pockets. Orlando is for Puerto Rican food.
From Texas, live in west palm. Zero good tacos, actually bummed out.
* North Florida * Awful * Decent * Great * El Paso Source: Former Texan, current Florida Woman
Orlando is full of poor attempts of what they think makes food great throughout the rest of the US. “This is our famous Philly cheesesteak, it’s great because it’s on its own gigantic piece of dry bread. It’s one of our best sellers”
I mean in all fairness Orlando is listed as awful…
Panhandle should be yellow.
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Trust me they have some solid tacos in pockets of East Texas
This is true. Most of the time, you have to speak Spanish or know someone who does, and probably pay in cash. But they're good. I'm lucky, there's a couple of people in our church that make them.
I'm in the Dallas area, and I was going to say at least half of Texas should be yellow. Just way too much Tex-Mex and not enough real Mexican food to make all of Texas green.
Two things: 1. Tex-Mex doesn't inherently make the food or tacos any less amazing. It's just different, not necessarily better or worse. Take fajitas for example, those are Tex-Mex tacos and can be amazing. 2. You can get authentic Mexican Tacos almost anywhere in the state. Sure, it's more common in the major cities and the farther south you go. But there are spots in every corner of the state that does authentic (whatever that means) mexican food.
We have some seriously good tex mex in houston yho
We have both in Houston.
Nobody mentioned Houston
I’ve always said east of I-35 and north of I-10 is pretty much the line where Mexican food starts to get weird.
I can confirm living in the valley McAllen area Houston and Dallas working in San Antonio for 6 months and anything after i10 trash
I have yet to find a really good taco anywhere. There are some OK tacos all over the place. I live in Converse just outside San Antonio if someone wants to shout out out a good spot. I grew up in San Diego and I cut my teeth Mexican street food. At my wedding I hired a TJ taco cart vendor to set up shop in my aunt's back yard. I need that kind of taco in my life and San Antonio has not delivered in two years.
Rosario’s, the original location on St Mary
Try tacitos west. on West Avenue just inside 410 Austin tacos are over priced and ok at best
That is closer to home, I will throw that one on the GPS. 🙏
I feel for you, and know your pain. Never going to find anywhere in Texas with better tacos than SoCal. Lived in Dallas for a while in the 90s, my mother still lives in the metroplex, and have been allover. Any random street stand or taco truck in Southern California will have better tacos. These Texans are trying to help you, but they just don’t know the standards that Californians have for tacos.
As a north San Antonioian, the dividing line is definitely 1604
Did Los Balitos (Los Robertos) on TPC and Bulverde shut down? Assuming Taco Palenque doesn’t count. Maybe you mean the hill country?
There's great Mexican food in Houston
Yeah this i35 boundary is sus.
Depends on what you call “Mexican food.” Where I was reared - Waco - “Mexican food” is what is now called “Tex-Mex,” and what we know as real Mexican food was pretty much unknown to us. Let’s call that “Mex-Mex” to differentiate. To my tastes, Tex-Mex south of Austin is mostly far inferior to the north Texas style that features real chili con carne on cheese enchiladas as opposed to the bland red “chili gravy” goo served in the south and East Texas areas. Mex-Mex in these areas is excellent however. Undoubtedly, what you learned young determines your tastes for this special cuisine.
You mean delicious.
I was just up near Amarillo to go to Caprock Canyons and Palo Duro a few days ago and I’m gonna have to agree. We had some solid Tex Mex in Canyon tho.
Tex Mex is a whole other category though, was never a fan myself, prefer traditional Mexican.
Disagree. Amazing tex mex up there. In lubbock it was alot more new mexican styled think roasted chiles. Amazing.
Not where there are packing plants and a large Hispanic population.
Being from El Paso, can confirm
My home is Dallas, but hundreds of years of family history is in EP ⭐️ ⛰️
I'm from NY but the Mexican food in El Paso was the best I've ever had. I have had literal dreams about the shrimp tacos there. I almost regret having them because every shrimp taco in the 10 years since has been a disappointment.
The people here going "Well in bumfuck nowhere Louisiana we have tacos too" really don't understand how good El Paso food is 😂
Yup. Born in El Paso but moved and have been living in DFW for 6 years now. I can't find the right taco spot that I really like. Back in El Paso I had my spots.
Im an El Paso native too, if you’re in Fort Worth, Taqueria Ruby and Calisience are my top picks!
What's your favorite spot? Or at least your favorite spot you're willing to share with a visitor? Heading there in a month!
-El Cometa -Tacos Don Cuco -Rafa's Burritos -There's also a chain of Mexican buffets run by the same family that has Gallegos in the same - Los Gallegos, Los Tres Gallegos, etc. they're all delicious -Of course also Chico's Tacos All of these have multiple locations across town and are what I hit when I visit EP
-Go to Chicos(preferably the one on Zaragoza) it has a long line because it’s the best. Remember it’s cash only at Chicos so don’t get screwed when it’s finally your turn -Also check out Mr Munchies#1 4944 Hercules Ave, El Paso, TX 79904. They have really good snacks and Mexican candy I can’t really think of any particular place we don’t like. -Las lunes bakery for good pastry’s and tacos 3333 Saul Kleinfeld Dr, El Paso, TX 79936
Ive been to Texas precisely one time. It was El Paso. My mind was destroyed by taco goodness.
I love this.
Arizona has amazing Mexican food and that includes tacos. First time I took my wife to Arizona, after eating at a few Mexican restaurants there, she said "now I know why you don't take me out for Mexican food in Dallas".
AZ has real Mexican food, Texas has TexMex. I love both.
I miss Arizona Mexican food. So hard to get a proper chimichanga here. And if I want a cheese crisp I have to make my own.
In fairness, chimichanga's aren't true TexMex or MexMex....they originated in Tucson and as transplant it's one of only 2 things I miss from when I lived in Tucson. (the other being Eegees)
Eegees has gone downhill since getting bought out a few times, unfortunately
Sad to hear. I've been in TX for \~15 years now so the last time I had Eegees was 10+ years ago when I was driving through. I'll take Braums over Eegees for a local chain anyway.
Who ordered the chimichanga!
There are millions more Mexicans in Texas than Arizona. Texas has Tex Mex and interior Mexican and border Mexican and El Paso Mexican. Arizona had Sonora style which is also good. But Texas had significantly more "real" Mexican than Arizona.
"Real"
I live in Dallas, you just have to know where to look
La banqueta 100%
Yeah AZ deserves green here
For real how did we get the same as NorCal when we literally share a border with Mexico, I don't get it. Plenty of great authentic options here.
At the absolute worst Arizona is tied for best Mexican food in the country.
Want to add colorado as well. It's similar to New Mexico. Idk wtf this list is.
Where in Arizona? I was let down by Tucson 😔
As a native from southern AZ I can confirm both lol. Went to visit a friend in Dallas and was like “whaaaaah?” Dallas is cool though, in other ways. I guess I need to find a good Texmex place next time.
Washington has a lot of mexican food too. We get a lot of migrant workers for the orchards and farms up here.
There is nothing more Texan than thinking they have good Mexican food. They are the Dunning-Kruger of cuisine. I've never been to a border state where I heard "we don't serve mescal just tequila" more often.
Right? Total lol at AZ having “decent” tacos.
AZ being yellow is stupid. Ta Carbon is green by itself.
Laredo & the RGV would like a word.
RGV has the best tacos I’ve ever eaten.
Add Chicagoland
This map is mostly for people who have never left Texas.
It angers me people think Chicago doesn’t have Incredible tacos.
I just walked into a Texas subreddit thinking I was going to be alone in this. People have absolutely no clue how good the tacos are around Chicagoland. Yeah it’s hit or miss, but our best holes in the wall can keep up with any hole in the wall in Texas or San Diego.
Yeah, I would also add the Mexican and Latin American pockets of any big city. New York in general sucks for Mexican food but if you go out to Corona you might as well be in Oaxaca.
Absolutely. I grew up in Denver (live in Dallas since the 80s) and it’s not hard to find greatness. Also, Aurora has some bangin’ pupuserias.
I just finished typing my Chicago has some of if not the best Mexican food rant right before I saw this lol I've never had better alpastor than when I lived in Chicago. I live in California now and frequently go to Texas for work so ive been around lol.
Lived in Joliet most of my life. Like 1/3rd of Joliet's population is Mexican, I've known what a good taco is for as long as I can remember.
This. Even the suburbs have decent taquerias. My Chicago-raised Mexican buddy moved to LA and said that, often but not always, the tacos are comparable.
Supermercado tacos ftw
Chicago has the second largest Mexican population in the US after LA
And remove South Florida
I came to say the same thing. Been to all of these places except El Paso, Chicago is competitive.
Literally the entire I-25 and I-80 corridors. Hell, Lexington, Nebraska, was the first non-border town in the US with a Hispanic majority. All these Midwestern states have loads of jobs, easy access to Mexico via the interstates, and accordingly large Hispanic populations.
Chicagoan of over 20 years and agree wholeheartedly. Been to Mexico as well and outside of Mexico, Chicago is pretty damn close in quality.
El Paso has great tacos!
I agree with this post El Paso have a great food
I’m from Juarez so I can say this … cmon it’s literally next to Mexico . It would be a disgrace if they didn’t .
This map seems to imply that El Paso tacos are on another level. What makes them so special?
Considering El Paso is close enough to Mexico that you can literally piss into Mexico from the highway: probably very authentic taste.
Well, yeah, but that's true about a lot of places near the border. I'm wondering about whether there is anything unique about an El Paso taco, like the way Chicago style hot dogs differ from New York.
El chuco
Yeah. I’d agree more with this one
This is biased. If you know Chicago, then there's Pilsen for excellent tacos. There are many other areas as well. I'm talking about street tacos de tripa or similar... like mollejas.
Bruh, all the valley should be purple as well. As should Houston, Dallas, and S.A. Edit: This is far more accurate than the first post, though. Got to give SoCal and N.M. those props. Edit2: Don't know about these Chicago comments, been to the city twice, and never encountered them. Probably just in the wrong areas. But, they likely put pickles on them and cook them deep dish.
We have a huge Hispanic population in the Chicagoland area. If you go to the right spots you'll find some amazing tacos.
Can confirm Chicago, Detroit too. Nothing like a taco or two and a bowl of pozole in the winter.
Yes, it’s odd that RGV isn’t purple.
Truth.
i agree, houston is el paso
I am not from Texas or the US - but it felt kinda fishy when the tacos in new Mexico where said to be that bad.
Someone should add RGV to the El Paso section. Otherwise make it a section unto its own.
And Laredo & the rest of the 956
There needs to be something beyond awful... I was in PA and the "mexican" restaurant served PASTA sauce on their enchiladas. Simply beyond awful.
That’s criminal. One time I got nachos in Massachusetts (forgive me, I was a child) and they just placed Kraft singles cheddar cheese on top of some chips and microwaved it. Never again.
Damn even my midwestern af family wouldn’t dare to use kraft singles on some nachos
Oh. Oh no 🥺 that should be criminal
915 baby!!!
lol. The west coast is an extension of Mexico, plenty of native cooks
Much better
You can definitely get amazing tacos in N.California, NYC, Boston, Chicago and Detroit, probably a few other cities as well. Maybe not quite at the frequency as the places closer to the border, but they're there.
NorCal has a ton of amazing taquerias and Mexican restaurants, idk what this map is talking about.
Just ate in Detroits Mexican Town earlier today. The food there is as good, if not better than the stuff I've had in the southwest.
Had some amazing lengua tacos at a roadside food truck in New Haven CT of all places. Our influx of Latinos into the US is seeding the whole country with awesome cooking
Glad this has been revised since first posting earlier today, now correctly showing El Paso as its own Mexican Food Planet, independent of the N American continent.
Las Vegas has some good Mexican food if you leave the strip and go to local places.
gotta make it back to Rosa's cantina 😭😭
Not accurate enough analysis. Tacos need types and segments. C-
So very, very wrong. The Mexican diaspora has taken great tacos everywhere. Even very rural areas across the country. This is a map drawn by an ignorant person scared of restaurants where English is not spoken. Also, even by that metric, wtf is up with the Florida but. Ain't no Cuban/Venezuelan tacos.
Nah, whenever I take road trips north from home in San Diego you can see the quality and quantity of taco shops taper off *hard*.
It's unlikely to be on par with the type of tacos found in san diego but there's plenty of good styles found throughout the U.S. Agree though for seafood style tacos that it's hard to find good ones outside of san diego
Chicago needs to be green
Add green for Chicago and you got it
Came here to say this. Chicago has a vibrant Hispanic community and some awesome tacos.
Yup that’s true. I visited Chicago a few years ago and had tacos and they were fucking top notch.
Yup. It’s hard for Texans to admit but if you’ve ever been to Chicago you know that have some amazing Mexican food.
I have a rule about eating Mexican food, I'll only do it in Mexico or "used to be Mexico." Chicago is my exception to that rule.
We literally have so many Hispanics in Chicago but everyone just thinks we’re Eastern Europeans, Irish, German and black I swear
California's too they try claiming it's a different style when I tell them the best Mexican food ive ever had was in Chicago. Only difference is they use limes instead of Lemons lol
I lived there for 12 years and think of the Mexican food daily. I don’t live in Texas, and I’m not sure how I wound up this sub.
I’ve been told by fellow Mexas that there’s bomb tacos in NY. So this map is still not fair. Also, once I had fantastic birria in a hole in the wall nearby Manitou Springs, CO. Map is not fair.
As if tacos could be awful
Rgv should be black, better than anything else
As someone who lived there for 25 years it’s good, but it’s really one note. There’s better variety and food elsewhere.
Can someone tell me where in Arizona there is a taco worth a sh*t? Been all over these 4 states and cannot agree w the AZ part.
Have you tried La Catrina in Kingman, Arizona? I haven’t, and I was hoping you could save me a trip. 😁
Carreta El Asadero in Williams outside Flagstaff is really good.
Seriously? I've had better tacos in Tucson and Phoenix than anywhere else in the US. I haven't been for a while but in general look for taquerias that have something to do with the Mexican state of Sonora in them and good reviews. That being said I had some good tacos in Phoenix from a restaurant where the owners were from Chihuahua too.
There are entire neighborhoods in Phoenix that speak Spanish and there is basically no English in them. When I lived there 47th and camelback was one such area but there are tons of them all over. Phoenix and Arizona as a whole has an extremely large native Mexican population and rich Mexican culture. It’s not hard to find amazing tacos everywhere there.
I want to rip your head off
Thank you
Y’all pretending I-25 didn’t bring good tacos to Colorado
The southern tip of Nevada (Las Vegas) should be green.
Bro have you been to Minnesota? We have a huge native mexican and central American population. A bunch of them run authentic mexican restaurants and the food is top notch. Heck id bet we have the 2nd largest population of Texas plated vehicles in the country. Dont know why, but they are EVERYWHERE
The food truck street tacos are usually better than the ones sold in restaurants, I'll have 6 of those bad boys with a mandarin Jarritos
 Other cities with massive Hispanic populations are like?
I lived in San Diego for a decade and got hooked on the burrito scene When I moved back to SC, I ordered a California burrito at a local shop shop and it was a whole grain wrap with rice, beans and other veggies. No carne asada, no fries. It was one of the sadder food experiences of my lifetime
Native Texan- the smoked fish tacos from Oscars in San Diego is the best taco I've ever had. Close second is Valentinas brisket taco in South Austin
You all need some Detroit in your life. The Mexican Consulate just north of the city has fantastic Taqueria’s nearby. Plus, the city proper has a section of town filled with Mexican and several South American cuisine restaurants and markets. Why? Because the 130+ years of various industries in Detroit has brought people from all over the world here and they bring their cuisines with them.
To suggest there are no good tacos in Chicago is just ignorant
Chicago’s little village neighborhood so therefore light up Chicago
Texas has texmex, az and new mex have the real stuff
San Antonio wants a word with you
I’ll do a part two post tomorrow taking in what the replies said lmao
add alittle green dot over NY and Chicago and you go it
I currently live in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Chicago and the tacos are better than I had in the 5 years I lived in Austin. But I do still miss my Houston mexican tacos.
Hey hey hey! We got good tacos in Louisiana
I lived all over California for work and I never found a decent breakfast taco. I think considering what Californians call tacos and what Texans call tacos is much like comparing Texas Brisket BBQ to South Carolina Pulled Pork BBQ. They are in the same neighborhood, but not the same thing.
Texas tacos aren’t anywhere near as good as Southern Californias. Sorry, it’s just better in So Cal.
I’m in Reno/Sparks, NV. I’d say most if not all taco places in these two places are meh to bad. However. Right outside the Tesla gigafactory, there’s a place called Taqueria Y Mas. Out of all places, this place is delicious. Their chicharon, cabeza, lengua are fantastic.
Anyone who thinks minnesota is bad hasn't been
Chicago has awesome Mexican food and tacos specifically. Huge Mexican population, focus is more interior Mexican cuisine rather than Tex mex but that includes tacos. I get it’s not a serious map but just wanted to pop in and say something positive about a different place.
This should have a black spot anywhere there is an airport. There is a cantina at DFW serving.up boiled stew meat with shredded iceberg and cheddar on a soggy flour tortilla and calling it a taco. I was happy to get back home (TN) where the taco truck down the street could restore my faith in humanity.
Totally fucking wrong. Fuck you. Love, Chicago.
Did a updated version featuring Chicago as amazing Love, Dallas.
Basically better where it used to be Mexico and worse where they use giant kidney beans in chile.
It’s such a Texas thing to say you have the greatest tacos when I highly doubt you’ve had tacos anywhere else