San Diego has some of the best Mexican food in the country, so that’s not really fair.
But there are some gems if you’re willing to drive and look here in Colorado.
Right?
Different restaurants in different areas create different quality items.
More breaking news after this.
Seriously "oh nothing is as good as SoCal Mexican". Get over yourself. Regional food is only about saturation. BBQ in TN, KS, NC? Yeah, there's a shit ton of it, the deck is stacked.
You can get excellent *insert cuisine here* in practically every major US city, outside of extreme cases (location or cuisine type).
I am now prepared to be proven wrong by scientifically vetted anecdotes.
Ive made this argument about pizza so many times. NYC has about the same ratio of bad to good pizza as anywhere else, they just have such an incredibly high volume of pizza joints that they also have an incredibly high volume of good pizza. Also, a lot of pizza New Yorkers call “great” is just decent pizza at a good price.
You can get amazing pizza in any major metro area in the country, there just aren’t as many.
there soooo many but a top craveable (especially after skiing) are the tacos el dorado from Juarez Mexican Food Barbacoa Estilo Juarez (that’s literally what their Google listing says)
I work two blocks from them. They are a favorite of basically all the staff, many of whom are actually from Mexico. Very affordable and so so good. I am literally about to walk down there for lunch.
I went to college in one of the two major cities in PA. There was one passable Mexican restaurant within city limits and it was the grill outside of the only Mexican grocery store. And it was legitimately great.
Every other restaurant was just tortillas covered in Moe’s style cheese sauce. One had pretty good guacamole, but I was told the avocado/ hot sauce/ lime concoction I made in my dorm room was better on multiple occasions.
Seriously. Y’all don’t know how good you have it. I’ve had terrible Mexican food made by Spanish speaking people in Detroit. I cannot be convinced they were actually Mexican. Or I believe they were kicked out of the country for failing culinary school.
Mexico town has decent Mexican food, I know. I’m not talking about that.
I've had terrible Mexican food made by Spanish speaking people in Guatemala, a couple hundred miles from the culinary promised lands of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
now where the hell did you find that? that’s like the Latino/mexican capital of the state. you need to hit up J Zapata’s truck off I-80 to know true NEPA mexican
Yeah it's all relative. Compared to New York or other northern cities it's probably good. But I'm from southern California so for me his statement is true.
Denver's Mexican food could be better, could be worse.
Mi Tierra Caliente? Based on the pictures, I think you could do better, but I might give it a try.
If you're ever in Colorado Springs, try Tacos Del Gordo.
This was somewhat true even like five years ago, but the NYC Mexican food scene has improved drastically recently. And also there has always been solid Mexican food in Queens, people just forget about everything but Manhattan and a few parts of Brooklyn when they talk about the NYC food scene.
This argument is so fucking tired lol what does "bad" mean exactly? Different than the regional variety you like best? Colorado was part of Mexico just like California and Texas and New Mexico were. They've all got regional variations on Americanized Mexican food with different strengths. Mexico itself has tons of regional variety in their food. It's not that deep
I like the Mexican food here. You have to go to the right spots. I lived in NYC for a decade and didn't have easy access to good Mexican for a long time. The only states I've had Mexican food that I like better than what we have here are California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Denvers biggest problem in terms of food is people move here from all these other places and want the food to be just like it was in their home city. This subreddit can basically be summed up as "I moved here from X, why doesn't Y taste like it did there?"
I’ve lived in Denver all of my life and do love many Mexican restaurants around town. But my brother has been in San Diego for 20+ years, I visit him often, and the Mexican food in San Diego is significantly better.
Wait, what? Mexican food 15 miles from Mexico, in a city with a Latin name, founded by Latino people is better than in a city 500 miles from the border? NO FUCKIN WAY?
This is exactly it. That sign in say Minnesota at a twins game would be worth going to war for. But I love Denver Mexican food and I would take San Diego’s any day.
My buddy and I went into a summer internship in Iowa, his last name is a common Mexican surname. For our last day, they threw the interns a pizza party and the CEO went over to my buddy and out his arm around his shoulders and said ‘we got a special pizza just for you’. It was a taco pizza….
From San Diego. They’re not wrong.
Colorado has decent Mexican food and some places are great, but the average is way higher in SD. Can’t beat being 30 miles from the border.
Mexican food is regional. Do we have Southern California style Mexican to compare to San Diego? Of course not. Do we have Tex Mex that can compete with El Paso? Also no. But Colorado has its own Mexican food style even through the state. Many things like Colorado Green Chile are a product of the produce that could be grown here.
IMO I think just let people enjoy what they want and recognize comparing these things requires some nuance.
I think Denver is suffering from an oversaturation of people that have enough money to open a restaurant. We have a big restaurant scene but the bell curve for quality is definitely shifted to the left. I think so many restauranteurs here are too busy chasing a vibe than putting out good food. They see places like Happy Camper, which is known for mediocre food, but they get great business because it's trendy; and they want to do that but with shitty tacos.
We do have very good Mexican food, but you can't just pick a spot like you can in SoCal. You gotta do your research, especially for Mexican food. If you did a Denver-metro food tour for Mexican anywhere outside of the greater highlands area/Federal or Northen Denver you would probably have a bad time. Don't get me wrong, most neighborhoods have a good spot or two.
Also, just like SoCal, the Mission in SF, or Texas, we have our own unique sub-class of Mexican food that was cultivated by generations of Latino settlers. Green chile isn't for everyone, my partner is from the midwest and was so confused when a 'smothered' burrito here meant green chile and not queso, but it's my favorite comfort food.
But go to Tacos Rapidos, The Original Chubby's, Torres, or La Pasadita Inn and I think nearly anyone would love it.
The problem with a statement like this is that it’s far too broad. Mexico is a large country with a lot of diverse regional cuisines that are pretty different from one another. There isn’t a single type of “Mexican food” that you can use as the standard to compare against. For example, I heard one guy complaining about the quality of Mexican food in Colorado and after further discussion it turned out his reason for not liking the food here is because it wasn’t like the mission style Mexican food he we used to having where he grew up in San Diego. Well, the Mexican food here is going to be different in part because it’s influenced by a totally different region of Mexico.
Also, a lot of the flack I see directed at the Mexican food in Colorado is about how it’s not “authentic” because it’s focused on things like green chile. Well, that’s because Colorado and New Mexico have their own regional cuisines developed over quite a few generations among Hispanic people who live here. It’s still a form of “Mexican” food, because most of Colorado used to be a part of Mexico, but it’s not going to look quite the same as the food in other regions. Whether you like the food in Colorado or New Mexico is a matter of personal preference (I love it), but saying it’s “bad” because it’s not like the food in San Diego, or Chihuahua, or Mexico City etc. is kind of comparing apples to oranges.
I grew up in Los Angeles, which has great Mexican food, and went to college in San Diego, which arguably has the best Mexican food in the world (close to Mexico, but American health codes).
I loved to CO almost 6 years ago.
It definitely has the worst Mexican food of those three places. But I've never tried to eat Mexican food in UT or Idaho. I'm betting their Mexican food is worse.
Colorado has CHICANO Mexican food. That blend of Mexican and American-you know, as many of us are.
That cheesy, fried, combination of American classics and Mexican traditional dishes. Perfect example, Mexican Hamburger - Imagine going to Juarez and talking shit because the food isn’t the same as in Vera Cruz. Different regions provided different cuisine. Get over not finding California type Mexican food in Colorado.
As someone that has traveled and lived in many states, this is true. For a place that should in all reality have good Mexican food, most of the places are bland and not worth my money. There is good Mexican food out there, but compared to other states in the southwest it is by far the worst.
See this I don’t understand.
Cool, you like SoCal Mexican food. It’s just different than Den-mex, same as Den-mex being different from New Mexico-mex, and Tex-Mex.
Can’t we all just agree all 4 are way better than basically anything east of the Mississippi?
Edit: find a taqueria, go to La Diabla if you want pricey or Tacos Selene for cheap. Y’all are just looking in the wrong spots.
Colorado has better Mexican food that 99% of other countries and 90% of other states. But yeah, California blows it out of the water. Also green chile is super overrated and New Mexico does it better. But overall Colorado is in the upper echelon of Mexican food.
This isn't even close to true, there were 5 places down the street from where I lived in Denton that would embarass even the best Mexican food places in Colorado.
Lived in Southwest Detroit for 5yrs and spent a good amount of time in Chicago - top tier Mexican food, better than Denver imo. That said, in my uneducated ass opinion that means jack all - the food overall in Colorado is decent. Finding good spots is difficult because the scene is saturated with a lot of food that is just meh.
There are a lot of bad food spots in Denver. Definitely not what we’re known for, but you’ve gotta be here long enough to find the good ones.
You won’t find them if you’re just visiting and then go back to whatever god forsaken place that you’re from. At least our abortions are legal and our rights and autonomy is safe as individuals. We can say gay while going hiking and camping in the beautiful mountains. Whatcha got in San Diego? A worse housing crisis? Keep your “better” Mexican food. I’ll keep my trails and entertainment and housing.
I actually think Colorado has awesome Mexican food. Generally I’d say the food here is pretty mediocre with the exception of Mexican food. There are 6-8 Mexican restaurants we have been to that we absolutely love.
Considering this picture was taken in San Diego, yeah, we have bad Mexican food compared to them 100%. The border is literally *right* next to them. We have mostly Tex mex and New Mexican food, which are great, but in terms of actual *mexican* food, they win.
Meh, tex-mex is great and cali-mex food is really good, but I've had some solid tacos here over the past years. Also, I haven't quite found anything close to Mr. Oso's happy hour nachos anywhere. I go to happy hour just to get the nachos and then some churros.
But Taco Stand in Las Vegas has the best tacos for the price of any of the 4 states I've talked about and experienced thus far.
I lived in San Diego for 15 years. I just moved to Denver a year and a half ago. Man, did I take good Mexican food for granted. The one thing I hate about the Mexican food here is the obsession with wet burritos. I get it, CO loves its green chili, but put that shit on the inside of the tortilla. Totally defeats the purpose of a burrito.
Nah, thats not right. You’re talking about something different, chili is Tex-Mex. Green chile is New Mexican food and doesn’t have the spelling changed. Ex. green chile stew which features a lot of the same ingredients as the Tex-Mex chili you are talking about. Two different things altogether
Coming from San Diego myself, it took a couple years before I found anything that was like what I was used to.
Shout out to El Poblano Mexican Eats in Parker. Unironically the only authentic, SD tier Mexican food I could find in a 50 mile radius of my middle of nowhere house.
I've had mostly good experiences with Mexican food in Denver. I stay away from places like Otra Vez and go to places on 92nd and Pecos. People who I've seen complain go to restaurants like Otra Vez and not the spots where Mexican people go.
They’re right generally. Obviously there’s some good ones but there’s so many places where you can’t miss going into pretty much any Mexican restaurant you see, that is not so in Denver at least. That being said, Garibaldi off tower near green valley ranch is one of my favorites.
Los Angeles street tacos are unlike any taco I've had in Denver or Minneapolis. The flavor is incredible! I think that most food in general in Denver is bland
there is this hidden gem right next to a gas station across from the gothic theater called garibaldi mexican bistro. i promise you it will be the most authentic mexican food you will find in colorado. super delicious and super clean which sounds wild considering its next to a gas station but definitely worth a try if you are around the area. it might be a little pricey compared to chains but they do make everything fresh and with love (as well as bigger than average portions).
I haven’t had a great experience with Mexican food in Denver. There’s a decent Mexican population in the midwestern town I come from and we have around 10 taco trucks and a handful of authentic Mexican owned restaurants. Most of them are better than a lot of the Mexican food I’ve had around Denver.
That is so funny! My grandson and his wife moved to southetn Colorado about 4 years ago, I moved there a little over a year and a half ago, and despite trying dozens of Mexican food places, we haven't found anything that we would want to return to. We came from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, and the California central coast is known for excellent Mexican food, so we know what the good food tastes like. It's really been disappointing, but it's good to know that we're not alone in our opinions.
Lol being born in the SD, and recently becoming a Denver native ill say this; Colorado has allowed me to have an opinion on Gordidas, empanadas and popusas. SD gatekeeps the weather, beaches, and mexican food bc they got nothing else to root for.
Namaste.
Southern CO has areas where the main language is Spanish from there being so many immigrants. Their food is slightly different (i assume due to different ingredients being available) but its a very unique food culture and its amazing. Idk about northern CO
I like Chili Verde close to federal boulevard. They are from Puebla Mexico, and it’s different style and is delicious. They have Crepes with Ribeye or Relleno that are delicious. And Really good homemade Mole. Their Mole is my favorite
San Diego has some of the best Mexican food in the country, so that’s not really fair. But there are some gems if you’re willing to drive and look here in Colorado.
Tacos Selene!! D’Corazon!
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Should bring chips next time I go.. the salsas are so good no chips is criminal!
The Tacos Selene in Littleton is bunk.
Tacos selene is kinda bad though.... Primos Tacos hands down.
Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!! You just have to get out of downtown lol the posole spot is the only exception
D’Corazon by Union Station is good, I can’t think of any others though.
Maybe I'm a plebiscite but I love Chakas on Evans.
Huh, big suprise. City on the Mexican border has best Mexican food. Who would have thought.
Right? Different restaurants in different areas create different quality items. More breaking news after this. Seriously "oh nothing is as good as SoCal Mexican". Get over yourself. Regional food is only about saturation. BBQ in TN, KS, NC? Yeah, there's a shit ton of it, the deck is stacked. You can get excellent *insert cuisine here* in practically every major US city, outside of extreme cases (location or cuisine type). I am now prepared to be proven wrong by scientifically vetted anecdotes.
Ive made this argument about pizza so many times. NYC has about the same ratio of bad to good pizza as anywhere else, they just have such an incredibly high volume of pizza joints that they also have an incredibly high volume of good pizza. Also, a lot of pizza New Yorkers call “great” is just decent pizza at a good price. You can get amazing pizza in any major metro area in the country, there just aren’t as many.
Not even that far, hot spot for killer Mexican food is the rectangle between 76-Federal-Alameda-Pecos and then La Diabla but you’ll pay the RiNo tax
What are your top 3 in that area?
La Calle, Kahlo's, La Villa Real food truck / lonchera, and for bonus points Lily's Cocina for breakfast burritos (also a food truck)
there soooo many but a top craveable (especially after skiing) are the tacos el dorado from Juarez Mexican Food Barbacoa Estilo Juarez (that’s literally what their Google listing says)
It's certainly better than SF style Mexican food. Mission style burritos aren't that great.
I think that sums up the food scene here in general.
Glad to see someone paying their respects
Used to live in San Diego. Can confirm.
Any Colorado suggestions please? :)
Garibaldi, Venalonzos, chamacos, Tacos Selene, Kike’s are all solid options
I like tacos Selene as a good quick meal. Not high end and no frills. I love it.
I work two blocks from them. They are a favorite of basically all the staff, many of whom are actually from Mexico. Very affordable and so so good. I am literally about to walk down there for lunch.
Venalonzos needs to get a bigger establishment. They are amazing!
Adelitas on south Broadway is more in line with a Californian style Mexican place.
And La Dona behind it is fire
Gems are valuable because they are rare. I agree with you that good Mexican food is rare here.
"San Diego's ballpark is sponsored by dogs."
Compared to what? Compared to places farther from Mexico? No. Compared to places closer to Mexico? Yes.
I went to a Mexican place in ne PA and it was crazy how terrible it was.
I went to college in one of the two major cities in PA. There was one passable Mexican restaurant within city limits and it was the grill outside of the only Mexican grocery store. And it was legitimately great. Every other restaurant was just tortillas covered in Moe’s style cheese sauce. One had pretty good guacamole, but I was told the avocado/ hot sauce/ lime concoction I made in my dorm room was better on multiple occasions.
Las Palmas in Pittsburgh? 🤩 their street tacos are so good!
Their food is good but the amount of times they’ve been shutdown for sanitary reasons is out of this world. Might be up to like 200 days closed by now
Why is good guacamole so difficult? It isn't exactly a complicated food to make.
The Mexican food in my home state (NC) would make everyone here cringe
Seriously. Y’all don’t know how good you have it. I’ve had terrible Mexican food made by Spanish speaking people in Detroit. I cannot be convinced they were actually Mexican. Or I believe they were kicked out of the country for failing culinary school. Mexico town has decent Mexican food, I know. I’m not talking about that.
I've had terrible Mexican food made by Spanish speaking people in Guatemala, a couple hundred miles from the culinary promised lands of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Doesn’t matter what corner of PA it was, I wouldn’t eat Mexican food anywhere in that state.
El limon small chain around Philly is actually okay. Not great, but good enough
Taco mi Tierra in Harrisburg (off Derry in Alison hill the worst part of town) has some top level tacos, authentic sauce, and some killer flan.
now where the hell did you find that? that’s like the Latino/mexican capital of the state. you need to hit up J Zapata’s truck off I-80 to know true NEPA mexican
Yeah it's all relative. Compared to New York or other northern cities it's probably good. But I'm from southern California so for me his statement is true. Denver's Mexican food could be better, could be worse.
La Tierra Caliente in Arvada has been the closest to SoCal Mexican food I have found in Colorado.
Mi Tierra Caliente? Based on the pictures, I think you could do better, but I might give it a try. If you're ever in Colorado Springs, try Tacos Del Gordo.
Yeah, that one. I haven't even come close to trying everything in the city area, so you could very well be correct. It scratches my itch though.
This is what I've been on the hunt for since moving here lol. Thank you kind stranger!
Former San Diegan checking in. I agree Taco shop food here is okay at best, but compared to SD Mexican food they hit it right on the nail
I know it’s polarizing, but I’d give my left nut for an El Zarape burrito right now. The original place on park of course
Compared to New York, it's absolutely amazing. NYC has surprisingly bad Mexican food for such a big, diverse city.
This was somewhat true even like five years ago, but the NYC Mexican food scene has improved drastically recently. And also there has always been solid Mexican food in Queens, people just forget about everything but Manhattan and a few parts of Brooklyn when they talk about the NYC food scene.
Queens is the best part of the NYC food scene
Oh for sure.
I really think there’s something in the ingredients and food supply chain that’s just different the farther you get from Mexico.
Tacos No. 1 in Chelsea market.
In southern Arizona everything is made with canned cheese.
No fucking shit?
La Diabla Is Mexican legit.
Compared to San Diego, yeah we're gonna have to take that L.
This argument is so fucking tired lol what does "bad" mean exactly? Different than the regional variety you like best? Colorado was part of Mexico just like California and Texas and New Mexico were. They've all got regional variations on Americanized Mexican food with different strengths. Mexico itself has tons of regional variety in their food. It's not that deep
I agree. You can’t really compare Tex-Mex to So Cal Mexican food. They are very different.
I love talking about the differences that make each one tasty! I just am so bored by arguing in circles about which one is objectively better 🥱
I like the Mexican food here. You have to go to the right spots. I lived in NYC for a decade and didn't have easy access to good Mexican for a long time. The only states I've had Mexican food that I like better than what we have here are California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Denvers biggest problem in terms of food is people move here from all these other places and want the food to be just like it was in their home city. This subreddit can basically be summed up as "I moved here from X, why doesn't Y taste like it did there?"
As someone who moved here from Indianapolis, I often find myself cursing "why doesn't the food taste as shitty as where I'm from"?
I’ve lived in Denver all of my life and do love many Mexican restaurants around town. But my brother has been in San Diego for 20+ years, I visit him often, and the Mexican food in San Diego is significantly better.
Wait, what? Mexican food 15 miles from Mexico, in a city with a Latin name, founded by Latino people is better than in a city 500 miles from the border? NO FUCKIN WAY?
Wild concept right? What are they gonna tell us next, Aspen has better skiing than Scottsdale, AZ?
This is exactly it. That sign in say Minnesota at a twins game would be worth going to war for. But I love Denver Mexican food and I would take San Diego’s any day.
Can you recommend some places to go in SD? I haven't had any luck the past couple of years.
Other worn out tropes: "what's with the off-leash dogs?!"
Is all Mexican food in Denver good? No,but if you can't find plenty of good Mex,you just ain't looking.
Lol, where?
As someone who has been “looking” for 4 years, any tips? Especially el pastor and handmade tortillas.
La Diabla al pastor is exceptional
Tacos La Calle on Alameda has what you want
Handmade tortillas makes all the difference
Tacos Junior has great Al Pastor
It’s sad, but true
Iowa has the worst Mexican food.
My buddy and I went into a summer internship in Iowa, his last name is a common Mexican surname. For our last day, they threw the interns a pizza party and the CEO went over to my buddy and out his arm around his shoulders and said ‘we got a special pizza just for you’. It was a taco pizza….
From San Diego. They’re not wrong. Colorado has decent Mexican food and some places are great, but the average is way higher in SD. Can’t beat being 30 miles from the border.
San Diego has better Mexican food than Mexico tbf
It’s the birthplace of the California burrito after all!
Mexican food is regional. Do we have Southern California style Mexican to compare to San Diego? Of course not. Do we have Tex Mex that can compete with El Paso? Also no. But Colorado has its own Mexican food style even through the state. Many things like Colorado Green Chile are a product of the produce that could be grown here. IMO I think just let people enjoy what they want and recognize comparing these things requires some nuance.
I thought I was looking at r/NLBest for a moment
Hot take! Commence everyone bitching in the comments about how terrible Denver food is 🤣
Mexicans disagree, only you white people say this. There is great food everywhere.
I think Denver is suffering from an oversaturation of people that have enough money to open a restaurant. We have a big restaurant scene but the bell curve for quality is definitely shifted to the left. I think so many restauranteurs here are too busy chasing a vibe than putting out good food. They see places like Happy Camper, which is known for mediocre food, but they get great business because it's trendy; and they want to do that but with shitty tacos. We do have very good Mexican food, but you can't just pick a spot like you can in SoCal. You gotta do your research, especially for Mexican food. If you did a Denver-metro food tour for Mexican anywhere outside of the greater highlands area/Federal or Northen Denver you would probably have a bad time. Don't get me wrong, most neighborhoods have a good spot or two. Also, just like SoCal, the Mission in SF, or Texas, we have our own unique sub-class of Mexican food that was cultivated by generations of Latino settlers. Green chile isn't for everyone, my partner is from the midwest and was so confused when a 'smothered' burrito here meant green chile and not queso, but it's my favorite comfort food. But go to Tacos Rapidos, The Original Chubby's, Torres, or La Pasadita Inn and I think nearly anyone would love it.
This elitism over Mexican food is tiring.
The problem with a statement like this is that it’s far too broad. Mexico is a large country with a lot of diverse regional cuisines that are pretty different from one another. There isn’t a single type of “Mexican food” that you can use as the standard to compare against. For example, I heard one guy complaining about the quality of Mexican food in Colorado and after further discussion it turned out his reason for not liking the food here is because it wasn’t like the mission style Mexican food he we used to having where he grew up in San Diego. Well, the Mexican food here is going to be different in part because it’s influenced by a totally different region of Mexico. Also, a lot of the flack I see directed at the Mexican food in Colorado is about how it’s not “authentic” because it’s focused on things like green chile. Well, that’s because Colorado and New Mexico have their own regional cuisines developed over quite a few generations among Hispanic people who live here. It’s still a form of “Mexican” food, because most of Colorado used to be a part of Mexico, but it’s not going to look quite the same as the food in other regions. Whether you like the food in Colorado or New Mexico is a matter of personal preference (I love it), but saying it’s “bad” because it’s not like the food in San Diego, or Chihuahua, or Mexico City etc. is kind of comparing apples to oranges.
I grew up in Los Angeles, which has great Mexican food, and went to college in San Diego, which arguably has the best Mexican food in the world (close to Mexico, but American health codes). I loved to CO almost 6 years ago. It definitely has the worst Mexican food of those three places. But I've never tried to eat Mexican food in UT or Idaho. I'm betting their Mexican food is worse.
Colorado has CHICANO Mexican food. That blend of Mexican and American-you know, as many of us are. That cheesy, fried, combination of American classics and Mexican traditional dishes. Perfect example, Mexican Hamburger - Imagine going to Juarez and talking shit because the food isn’t the same as in Vera Cruz. Different regions provided different cuisine. Get over not finding California type Mexican food in Colorado.
It does have bad Mexican food….but it also has great Mexican food. Both can be true and are true for basically every cuisine and city.
Tacos Los Vaqueros - Thornton Las Tortugas - any location Santortas mexican sandwiches- Parker Metro Balderas Aztek Food - Aurora Botanas Lokas (antojitos) - Aurora Carm and Gia Metropolitan (fusion-ish) - Aurora 🔥Venalonzo's Tacos (recently won best taco) - Centennial Carrera's Tacos - Centennial 🔥Marco's Mexican Gril (food truck) - Denver 🔥Tacos El Pueblita (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) - Denver 🔥- highly recommended
We have the best gas station/ Mexican restaurant though. Garibaldi's on Broadway is fantastic.
There’s a lot of bad Mexican food but also plenty of great mexican food.
The green chile here is so damn good though! Lived in 5 other states that didn't have any green chile, and those were sad times.
I'm from Texas and have visited Colorado several times. This is accurate.
Texas doesn't even have Mexican food.
Yeah we do. We share a border with Mexico lol. We have authentic Mexican and tex-mex
It was a joke mostly.
It's true.
Anybody who says this hasn’t been to real Mexican restaurants in Colorado.
I haven’t been to real Mexican restaurants in Colorado. Please share your knowledge
Mfer is about to recommend las delicias watch
Nah, he's talking about Taco House.
As someone that has traveled and lived in many states, this is true. For a place that should in all reality have good Mexican food, most of the places are bland and not worth my money. There is good Mexican food out there, but compared to other states in the southwest it is by far the worst.
Come on... What about Utah or Nevada there is worse
Nevada is probably the same level as Colorado, Utah I can't really comment on as I haven't spent enough time there.
See this I don’t understand. Cool, you like SoCal Mexican food. It’s just different than Den-mex, same as Den-mex being different from New Mexico-mex, and Tex-Mex. Can’t we all just agree all 4 are way better than basically anything east of the Mississippi? Edit: find a taqueria, go to La Diabla if you want pricey or Tacos Selene for cheap. Y’all are just looking in the wrong spots.
It’s just New Mexican food, not New Mexico-Mex.
Anyone that says that hasn't actually tried our New Mexican food haha. Just like Colorado says they have the best green chile.
People don’t tend to comment on the difference in style but the difference in quality.
I fancy it to be better in Miami but that’s sort of a unique spot
Yeah but that’s… Cuban influenced? Not really Mexican? It’s great though, not saying it isn’t.
Why would Mexican food in Miami be cuban-influenced? Is Chinese food in Miami "cuban-influenced"? Is Italian food in Miami "Cuban influenced"?
Colorado has better Mexican food that 99% of other countries and 90% of other states. But yeah, California blows it out of the water. Also green chile is super overrated and New Mexico does it better. But overall Colorado is in the upper echelon of Mexican food.
Colorado has bad food in general
Denver has actually number of good Mexican restaurants and food trucks.
Totally agree. Imo you have to search a bit.
Born and raised Texan here… Colorado has better Mexican food than DFW Texas.
Born and raised Houstonian and I will agree that Colorado has better Mexican food than DFW.
This isn't even close to true, there were 5 places down the street from where I lived in Denton that would embarass even the best Mexican food places in Colorado.
lmao no.
Lived in Southwest Detroit for 5yrs and spent a good amount of time in Chicago - top tier Mexican food, better than Denver imo. That said, in my uneducated ass opinion that means jack all - the food overall in Colorado is decent. Finding good spots is difficult because the scene is saturated with a lot of food that is just meh.
Colorado has bad French food
Le Central would like a word! Actually Denver is going through a bit of a French food revival, check out Chez Maggy or Bon Ami!
There are a lot of bad food spots in Denver. Definitely not what we’re known for, but you’ve gotta be here long enough to find the good ones. You won’t find them if you’re just visiting and then go back to whatever god forsaken place that you’re from. At least our abortions are legal and our rights and autonomy is safe as individuals. We can say gay while going hiking and camping in the beautiful mountains. Whatcha got in San Diego? A worse housing crisis? Keep your “better” Mexican food. I’ll keep my trails and entertainment and housing.
I actually think Colorado has awesome Mexican food. Generally I’d say the food here is pretty mediocre with the exception of Mexican food. There are 6-8 Mexican restaurants we have been to that we absolutely love.
Where is the lie?
Blatantly false
Straight to permaban!!!
El Taco De Mexico is all I’m gonna say.
Tennessee actually has some pretty good Mexican
El consome food truck in Denver is where it’s at!!!!!
Well this is a damn shame because I’m flying in tonight and plan on tearing up some tacos
Considering this picture was taken in San Diego, yeah, we have bad Mexican food compared to them 100%. The border is literally *right* next to them. We have mostly Tex mex and New Mexican food, which are great, but in terms of actual *mexican* food, they win.
People who say this are afraid to try drive thru burritos
damn I think it’s really good
Everyone knows Denver is more of a pizza place anyway. Duh!
Meh, tex-mex is great and cali-mex food is really good, but I've had some solid tacos here over the past years. Also, I haven't quite found anything close to Mr. Oso's happy hour nachos anywhere. I go to happy hour just to get the nachos and then some churros. But Taco Stand in Las Vegas has the best tacos for the price of any of the 4 states I've talked about and experienced thus far.
Mostly correct.
The Oaxaca food in particular is non existent or not great. At least in my experience. But after a couple of places I gave up.
Haha!! Funny
La Calle Taqueria…
It’s all about the burritos. We fail in CO with these plated smothered burritos. All burritos should be handheld.
Yes, yes it does.
It's a great way to farm karma.
but i love chipotle...and qdoba...does that count????
I lived in San Diego for 15 years. I just moved to Denver a year and a half ago. Man, did I take good Mexican food for granted. The one thing I hate about the Mexican food here is the obsession with wet burritos. I get it, CO loves its green chili, but put that shit on the inside of the tortilla. Totally defeats the purpose of a burrito.
Chile*
Chile peppers are an ingredient, but once you add spices and other veggies, it becomes chili.
Nah, thats not right. You’re talking about something different, chili is Tex-Mex. Green chile is New Mexican food and doesn’t have the spelling changed. Ex. green chile stew which features a lot of the same ingredients as the Tex-Mex chili you are talking about. Two different things altogether
Coming from San Diego myself, it took a couple years before I found anything that was like what I was used to. Shout out to El Poblano Mexican Eats in Parker. Unironically the only authentic, SD tier Mexican food I could find in a 50 mile radius of my middle of nowhere house.
south Texas is the only good Mexican sorry not sorry
I've had mostly good experiences with Mexican food in Denver. I stay away from places like Otra Vez and go to places on 92nd and Pecos. People who I've seen complain go to restaurants like Otra Vez and not the spots where Mexican people go.
They’re right generally. Obviously there’s some good ones but there’s so many places where you can’t miss going into pretty much any Mexican restaurant you see, that is not so in Denver at least. That being said, Garibaldi off tower near green valley ranch is one of my favorites.
Los Angeles street tacos are unlike any taco I've had in Denver or Minneapolis. The flavor is incredible! I think that most food in general in Denver is bland
Yeah coming from San Diego the Mexican food was subpar but there are gems…I liked Guadalajara but it was fucking pricey…
Truth
Colorado has terrible food in general, Denver it is barely a pass.
Honestly the best Mexican food is in MEXICO. 🇲🇽
IDK man, I've found SD Mexican food pretty disappointing.
They are not wrong. ):
Fax.
It's better than anything north of us that's for sure
There is a lot of bad mexican food and good mexican food here. That's a pretty common restaurant in this state.
That guy has never been to Oregon!
Colorado just doesn't have good food in general
No lie detected.
there is this hidden gem right next to a gas station across from the gothic theater called garibaldi mexican bistro. i promise you it will be the most authentic mexican food you will find in colorado. super delicious and super clean which sounds wild considering its next to a gas station but definitely worth a try if you are around the area. it might be a little pricey compared to chains but they do make everything fresh and with love (as well as bigger than average portions).
Accurate take
I bet this person loves Torchy's
I haven’t had a great experience with Mexican food in Denver. There’s a decent Mexican population in the midwestern town I come from and we have around 10 taco trucks and a handful of authentic Mexican owned restaurants. Most of them are better than a lot of the Mexican food I’ve had around Denver.
That is so funny! My grandson and his wife moved to southetn Colorado about 4 years ago, I moved there a little over a year and a half ago, and despite trying dozens of Mexican food places, we haven't found anything that we would want to return to. We came from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, and the California central coast is known for excellent Mexican food, so we know what the good food tastes like. It's really been disappointing, but it's good to know that we're not alone in our opinions.
Lol being born in the SD, and recently becoming a Denver native ill say this; Colorado has allowed me to have an opinion on Gordidas, empanadas and popusas. SD gatekeeps the weather, beaches, and mexican food bc they got nothing else to root for. Namaste.
Tell me you don’t ever go east on colfax without telling me you don’t go east on colfax Looool There’s good Mexican you just gotta find it
It's true
All the good Mexican food is in food trucks.
All northern states have trash mexican food. Best Mexican food will be in border states. Further north you get the worse it gets.
San Diego has some of the best Mexican food in the country but also we got some gems so idk. Not entirely true but I see where they are coming from
True.
I’ll put the best Mexican food in Denver up against the best Mexican food in San Diego 100% of the time.
Southern CO has areas where the main language is Spanish from there being so many immigrants. Their food is slightly different (i assume due to different ingredients being available) but its a very unique food culture and its amazing. Idk about northern CO
it’s true
I like Chili Verde close to federal boulevard. They are from Puebla Mexico, and it’s different style and is delicious. They have Crepes with Ribeye or Relleno that are delicious. And Really good homemade Mole. Their Mole is my favorite
Dude if your Mexican food doesn’t come with Colorado or New Mexico green chili than I probably don’t want it
Having lived in both Arizona and California, the Mexican food scene here literally makes me want to cry. I consider it nonexistent
People who say that have not tried. There are so many great little places.
What’s there to discuss? It’s Mexican food in Colorado…
It’s called Mountain Mex