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Decent Mexican food in Europe:-) (BTW, "if it were available")

Edit: if I ever 'made it big', and decided to stay in Italy, I'd invest a portion of my money in a good Mexican restaurant here. It would probably lose money, but what the hell.

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And New Zealand too.. there are zero quality Mexican restaurants there.

Its not Mexican, but the best Peruvian food I've had outside of Lima is in Amsterdam http://www.casaperu.nl/html/casaperu.html can't recommend it enough!

(My wife was born in Lima and we eat alot of Peruvian food)

And New Zealand too.. there are zero quality Mexican restaurants there.

The Mexican food I had in Australia was a "shocker."

There's a couple of lovely Mexican ladies who have a small restaurant in Wellington (Viva Mexico) that is absolutely fantastic! Otherwise, yes, NZ Mexican is rather abysmal.

(I often think that good Mexican would be an awesome business opportunity here...)

The sad part is there isn't decent Mexican food in Mexico. I've tried in 6 different cities there, it's not at all like what we eat. Might be that the quality of the ingredients is just vastly inferior.

The only place I found so far with decent Mexican food in Mexico is owned by Sammy Hagar.

For that you have to come to our apartment in Berlin for our startup dinners. We've done about 5 of them (one being a Berlin news.yc meetup) and they all feature enchiladas or fajitas.

Sure, Berlin's a bit out of the way from Italy, but some things in life simply take priority.

Europe consists of more than one country you know :-) Please don't judge other countries in Europe based on your experience.

i've lived in two countries, actually, and visited many others. Madrid was the only place where i managed to find decent mexican food.

I had decent Mexican food in London. It wasn't spectacular, but I remember enjoying it.

London is one of those sorts of places where you could probably find anything, but it's an outlier.

No kidding, Spain has great Mexican food. England the best Curry ;-)

I'd add, a halfway decent pizza in Havana.

When Cuba opens up, the first decent pizza place to go down there is going to make a killing!

Seriously, there the pizza is terrible, doesn't matter if you are in Havana, Santiago, or Gerona.

> Seriously, there the pizza is terrible, doesn't matter if you are in Havana, Santiago, or Gerona.

But do the Cubans know that?

Unless you like ham and cheese pizza, then it's paradise.

Oh my god, hear hear.

Went to a "Mexican" place in Vienna (I'm an American expat) a few months back and it was horrible, terrible, frightening.

Somebody ordered the spare ribs (!) and they crackled as you pulled them apart.

I'm pretty sure ribs aren't Mexican though

I think that's what the ! is for. You'd be surprised at some of the stuff that gets passed off as Mexican food in Europe.

What, people in Mexico don't eat the ribs on pigs? Perhaps they take the shoulder to make carnitas and leave the rest of the carcass to rot under the hot, Mexican sun?

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