Top 5 on Friday - 5.5

[sheila]

In honor of Cinco de Mayo....

Top 5 things to order at a Mexican Restaurant?

[Nocona]

1) Chips & salsa
2) Chicken chimichanga :lick:
3) Fried ice cream
4) Chicken taco
5) Margarita ;)

[Trish]

1) Chicken Chimichange
2) Refried Beans
3) Fried Ice Cream
4) Raspberry Margarita
5) Another Raspberry Margarita

[Alyssa]

Chips & Salsa
Guacamole
Margarita(s)
Taco Salad
Chicken Burrito

[Dawnie]

1. Margaritas - the BIG one! :lol:
2. Chips with homemade salsa
3. Cheese Enchilada
4. Chicken chimichanga
5. Beaf Tacos

[Ana975]

Sangria
Chips & Salsa
Beef Chimichanga
Taco
Corn Tomolito (or whatever its called)

[Clare]

Here's a shocker - I've never been to a Mexican restaurant! They're not in abundance here :dunno:

I like mexican food though :nod: and I love margharitas :lick:

Fried ice-cream is a Chinese dessert here :scratch:

[kim]

1) margarita rocks no salt
2) dos equis
3) tecate light
4) corona light no lime
5) repeat steps one thru 4

[Barb]

1. Margarita rocks no salt (Kim and I should go drinking together sometime.)
2. Corona w/ lime
3. Chicken burrito
4. Guacamole
5. and another Margarita

(chips and salsa are automatic and free where I come from. :dunno: )

[Shanna]

1. Margharita :lick:
2. Queso (blanco)
3. Pollo Loco
4. Sopapilla
5. Corona (extra lime)

[sheila]

Margarita (rocks or frozen, I just don't care. Salted rim, though)
Salsa & chips
Fajitas (when I split with Stagg, I get all the veggies :lick: )
Corona w/ lime
Cheese enchilada

[Bridget]

1) Chips with salsa and cheese dip
2) Margarita, frozen, w/salt
3) Fish or shrimp tacos
4) Anything with Guac.
5) I'm stealing from Barb and Kim when I say another margarita!

[Nichole]

1. Margarita rocks with salt (I'm coming with you, Barb & Kim)
2. Dos Equis or Modelo w/ lime
3. Carne asada (either a burrito or the platter)
4. Carnitas
5. Rice & beans

chips and salsa are automatic and free where I come from, too

:secret: and chimichangas aren't "real" Mexican food. :awink:

[kelbelle]

1. Nachos
2. Chips with homemade salsa and con queso
3. Sopapillas!
4. Any kind of enchilada
5. Margaritas!

Yummmm... This made me so hungry!

[Trish]

:secret: and chimichangas aren't "real" Mexican food. :awink:Really? What are they then?

[Shanna]

And. . . if you went to Mexico and ordered a burrito, you'd probably end up with a small donkey, right? :lol:

[Nocona]

Chips & salsa are automatics here, too, I just like them a lot :lol:

[Nichole]

Really? What are they then?

They're Faux-ican. :lol: They're something created in the U.S., same as burritos and chop suey.

[Stacey]

1) margarita (frozen or rocks, depending on my mood. salt please :) )
2) enchiladas verdes
3) steak fajitas
4) chicken quesadillas
5) I can't think of a 5th. I love chips and all the yummy dips, but they're automatic here too.

Clare, I can't believe you've never been to a Mexican restaurant. :faint: That's just awful. ;) I hope you get to go to one soon. It's so damn yummy.

[Alyson]

1. Steak fajitas
2. Chicken taco
3. Chicken enchilada
4. Pina Colada (I don't like margaritas... can you believe that lol)
5. something with carnitas

[Melissa]

1) guacamole
2) mole (pronounced molay) chicken
3) fajitas
4) margaritas
5) tortilla soup

[Nichole]

Dang it, this thread is making me crave Mexican food! I wonder if the restaurants will be too crazy to attempt with kids tonight... :biggrin:

[Jen]

1. Enchiladas Verde (cheese only)
2. Margarita (lots of salt-frozen or rocks)
3. Chile Relleno (only at the good places like Chuy's)
4. Guacamole
5. Any good mexican beer with salt and lime...MMMM

Wow, this was a bad thing for a pregnant girl to think about. Now I'm craving all of it!

We call most mexican food here Tex-Mex. I think that includes all the americanized mexican food. Purely authentic type mexican food is more rare around here, it's mostly all tex-mex. They only use the crumbly cheese at the authentic places.

[Jen]

Dang it, this thread is making me crave Mexican food! I wonder if the restaurants will be too crazy to attempt with kids tonight... :biggrin:

I think it would be a perfect night to take the kids out since everyone will be buzzing and loud, they won't notice if the kids are bouncing off the walls or not :lol:

I hate that the mexican restaurants will be packed tonight around here. I'm so craving it now.

[Shannan]

Tecate with Lime
Dos Equis with Lime
Chile Relleno
Mole
Carnitas

[Nichole]

I can imagine how you must be craving, Jen. Mine's powerful and I'm not even pregnant. :lol: I think we may just have to go out tomorrow night. It won't be as busy (the boys do fine as long as the waiting isn't long, kwim?) and we'll be tiling the floor all day so it will be a good reward. :toast:

[bunybomb]

1. Corona with lime
2. Chips and quacamole
3. Another Corona
4. Tacos al Carbon
5. Another Corona

[Eva]

1. Fresh salsa and chips
2. Strawberry Daquaris
3. fajaitas
4. tacos
5. Mexican Fried iced cream.

[Trish]

They're Faux-ican. :lol: They're something created in the U.S., same as burritos and chop suey.Well, if they serve it in a Mexican restaurant, it's Mexican food to me :lol: I live in Michigan, remember :lol:

[Nichole]

Ok. :lol: You have to remember that I live in Northern Mexico, though. :lol:

[Trish]

Ok. :lol: You have to remember that I live in Northern Mexico, though. :lol:exactly, so you have the real stuff and I get stuck w/imitation :rolleyes:

[Shanna]

We ordered in Mexican for lunch :lol:

[Nichole]

Come visit me and I'll take you out for some of the good stuff, Trish. :awink:

You haven't lived until you've had an authentic fish taco. :lick:

[Trish]

You know, I've heard of fish taco's and they just sound gross to me, but I've never had one, so I won't knock til I've tried it ;)

[Melissa]

LOL.... I just asked DH what he wanted for dinner and he said "Mexican?" :lol:

[Nichole]

I thought they sounded gross when I first moved here too, but they are really tasty. The best I ever had was down in Rosarito at a little hole in the wall place. The women made the corn tortillas and fried the fish right there to order. :lick:

[Girlo]

1. frozen margarita with salt :lick:
2. steak fajitas
3. carne asada platter - no rice
4. steak fajita quesadilla
5. chips and salsa and refried beans

[Cami]

1) Combo enchiladas: chicken, beef, and cheese
2) Good salsa and chips
3) Sangria

I like the dumpy looking places with the crumbly white cheese too. :lick:

[pam]

1. frozen margarita - preferably strawberry-mango
2. burrito - veggie, bean, chicken or beef
3. guacamole enchilada
4. tostada
5. veggie fajitas

I LOVE chips & salsa. My favorite Mexican food isn't really Mexican since I don't do lard. I like more of a fresh Mex kinda restaurant.

I HAD to try fish tacos when I 1st moved here even though I hate fish :lol: They are pretty darn good.

[TtownAnne]

The idea of fish tacos makes me gag. Sounds about as appetizing as fish meatloaf or something...

I don't really like spicy stuff, so my list is somewhat boring and based on our local mexican restaurant:

1. Chips and their own salsa which is cilantro-heavy and delish!
2. Beef flautas, heavy on the sour cream
3. Black beans
4. Beef chalupa (kinda like taco salad, I guess)
5. Steak fajitas, lots of fried onions

[Michele]

1. Margarita on the rocks w/salt
2. Filete con hongos (this awesome filet w/a tequilla cream sauce and mushrooms that we get at Rosa Mexicana in NYC - the sauce is so good I'll eat the mushrooms even and I hate mushrooms)
3. Guac
4. Roasted Veggie Quesadilla
5. Carne asada

Fish tacos would probably be #6 or 7 for me...I have had really good ones in Mexico and in CA...but around here, not so much. It is kind of surprising b/c the fish is really good around here, just not in taco form. :lol:

[Clare]

Clare, I can't believe you've never been to a Mexican restaurant. :faint: That's just awful. ;) I hope you get to go to one soon. It's so damn yummy.

I doubt it, I've never seen one around here. Oh I had Taco Bell at an airport once, St Louis I think. Does that count? :lol:

[Bridget]

Clare you were in St. Louis once? That's only four hours from me. OK, maybe five. :lol:

[Stacey]

No, Taco Bell doesn't even come close to counting unfortunately. That really sucks. :(

Of course, maybe I'm just too dependent on Mexican/Tex-Mex food. I think Brad told me that there were 100s of Mexican restaurants in Houston just that started with the word "El." :lol:

[Clare]

Clare you were in St. Louis once? That's only four hours from me. OK, maybe five. :lol:

Only changing planes. Hey I changed planes in Kansas City once too.I would have been even closer to you then :lol:
Alex and I still laugh about the Taco Bell in St Louis experience. We ordered coke or something with our tacos and the girl kept mumbling something at us that we could not understand. She had her visor/hat thing pulled way down over her eyes so we couldn't see her face. We finally figured out she was saying "no soda" over and over. Not "I'm sorry but the soda machine isn't working", just "no soda". Whenever one of the kids pulls their hats down too far we call them "no soda" :lol:

[Bridget]

Only changing planes. Hey I changed planes in Kansas City once too.I would have been even closer to you then :lol:

:woo:

:lol:

[Girlo]

I forgot a couple that I suppose could replace a couple of my top 5 - fish tacos with lots of cilantro and flan (flan being a separate entry :lol: ). :lick:

I WISH Taco Bell counted. YUM!!! A girl in my branch calls it crack because it's so addictive. :lol: I think she's right.....

[Mandi]

Mmmmm Mexican food. :lick: It's one of the things I love about living so close to the border.. REAL mexican food. :supergrin

1. Carne Asada burro
2. Taco Salad (normally shredded beef, occasionally chicken)
3. Chicken Enchiladas
4. Flautas
5. Chile Relleno

Chips and salsa come standard here so I didn't include them. But I love them. :lick:

[Michal]

There aren't really any good Mexican restaurants here in Canada. I have to go down to the states for that. I don't have a favorite that I always order, I usually try something different every time I go.

[LISA]

Another one who's never been to a restaurant, we finally had one open last year and I've been dying to check it out but dh doesn't want to go with me :rolleyes:

[Clare]

This thread inspired me to make nachos for dinner last night. Not the same as the real deal I'm sure, but yummy all the same :lick: