re: Do you have a "home base" Mexican restaurant?

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Mexican food, the whole Mexican restaurant experience has been bastardized. A plate of shitty food that was only ever considered acceptable because it was $7.99 with free chips/salsa is now twice that, your watered down premixed house Rita is over $10.

Opposite end of that is $5/tacos, $15 “family style” street corn and $20 kiwi peach margaritas.

And likely nobody from Mexico involved in the production. So no, I don’t have a home base Mexican restaurant. Sad because I used to be perfectly content with it, it’s just not worth the price

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Only true thing here is the margarita. Food is definitely the most marked up in the restaurant biz I have to imagine, but that's because it's freaking delicious and people will pay for it.

I frequent probably 4-5 mexican restaurants and every one of them is owned and primarily staffed by Mexicans. I'm not sure I've ever stepped foot in a Mexican restaurant where kitchen staff was anything but. When you can hear the music in the kitchen, you know it's good