does mexican food exsist in Europe?

[Ecthy]

yeah, most is Tex-Mex anyway

and there definitely is a market. I just don't know how well-supplied it is

[Demerzel]

got a really nice Mexican restaurant by the river here in kingston ( s.w. london ). i will admit i do prefer curry to mexican as a general rule but i do love both.

[pchang]

You do have Mexican food in Europe. There was even a Mexican restaurant in Monaco of all places. However, in my experience, it has been universally bad.

[MRT144]

i guess thats the followup. if euros have never tasted real mexican food, or even cali-mex or tex-mex food how can they judge if its good or not.

[Pekka]

No... not to great extent, maybe some.. but lots of Tex-Mex places I figure.

[MikeH]

I always wonder about curry places in the US as well. If Americans have never tasted proper British Asian curry how can they tell if it's good or not?

[pchang]

Because we get proper curry direct from real South Asians.

[MRT144]

thats the rub. in places like seattle, vancouver, San Francisco, LA, and NY, there are sufficent thai and indian populations that bring their cultural benefits there, one of them being food.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by MRT144
I wonder how many mexicans immigrate to the UK and europe as a whole.

I have met very few people of Mexican origin in Toronto.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by pchang
Because we get proper curry direct from real South Asians.

See, you don't know what you're missing.

[Az]

I think we have a mexican restraunt, but I am not sure. I am certain there is one in Tel Aviv.

[lightblue]

Think it's mostly tex-mex (fajitas, enchiladas and the like), but even then it's not very common in Cambridge and typically wrapped in with other American style food. Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian are the main ones here i think.

[Flandrien]

my place does not have a mexican

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MikeH
I always wonder about curry places in the US as well. If Americans have never tasted proper British Asian curry how can they tell if it's good or not?

You do have a point. We have a fair sized south Asia population here in the states but Indian food seems to be a high priced sit down affair and not the cheap take out it is in the UK.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by lightblue
Think it's mostly tex-mex (fajitas, enchiladas and the like), but even then it's not very common in Cambridge and typically wrapped in with other American style food. Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian are the main ones here i think.

Back around 2000 I flew through RAF Mildenhall and we stopped off in Cambridge for a while. There was a little mom and pop type French restaurant in Cambridge run by a middle aged French couple who immigrated and it was hands down the best French food I had ever had. Prices were high but the food was top notch; even better then the food I had in France.

The fellow who owned the place even came and chatted with us for a while and he kept saying he liked England so much better then France because it was so much easier to open his own business compared to France.