UGC Week: Mexican Food

Did you know that TacoTuesday.org is already registered? That sucks. I picture it as the Internet’s premier social networking site for people who love Tacos and Tuesdays combined. Which is all just tangential to the topic of this post. But still a good idea.

I love me some Mexican food. Hell, I even love Taco Bell, in that way that you love things that you know aren’t actually any good but are aggressively good at being bad at what they try to do.

Unfortunately, for years and years and years, the only Mexican options in town were Taco Bell and Chi-Chi’s, which, well, that was no good. Back in college, a little place called La Esperanza opened up, and it was pretty heavenly, but it’s gone now. Micro-chain La Tolteca has been here for at least the last few years, and their food started out pretty amazing, but has gone way downhill since they opened up another location about 30 miles north, taking all the quality along with it.

I’m most excited, however, by La Villita, a place that I’ve never gone to. It was pretty convenient to my old address, but it was in a bit of a shady neighborhood.

Somehow in my mind, though, that obvious negative becomes a positive when it comes to food. My experience is that truly satisfying food needs to come from a kitchen with a single, paroled chef and an unquantifiable number of code violations-in-waiting. This is why the crime rate in Clinton Hill, the foodiest place in New York City, is so astronomical (I think this is not actually true, but I could be wrong).