14-04-2005 16:08									#1
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I was really wondering if there were any restaurants and if not would it be a viable enterprise.

	14-04-2005 16:10									#2
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I know they exist in the UK. I have yet to actually try them as, knowing how large the Mexican population in England is, I doubt they'd be spectacular. My friends have tried a few local ones and said they're decent enough.

	14-04-2005 16:11									#3
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Yes, but the degree of difference between Mexican and American-Mexican is a big one, what you end up with is European-American-Mexican

Incidently, the best Mexican I ever had was in Bahrain, even better than the stuff I had in Mexico.

	14-04-2005 16:12									#4
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Oh and "Mexican" food in the form of Fajita kits, Tortilla wraps, taco, spices, chili's, burritto sauce, enchilada blah blah blah you can find in any supermarket in England.

	14-04-2005 16:15									#5
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I wonder how many mexicans immigrate to the UK and europe as a whole.

	14-04-2005 16:16									#6
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5?

	14-04-2005 16:18									#7
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It was the 'fashionable' food in Chester (UK) for a while, but people from Chester would eat a dog turd if they were told it was the 'in' thing.

	14-04-2005 16:25									#8
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The niche that Mexican food fills in America is filled by Indian food here. Ie, a spicy ethnic alternative available in all ranges from cheap takeaway to high class resturaunt in a desperate bid to make you forgot your white middle class background and appear cosmopolitan and cultured.

	14-04-2005 16:31									#9
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over here you have it all...mexican, american mexican, european mexican, european american mexican and ofcourse dutch mexican...

	14-04-2005 16:33									#10
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dutch mexican, that must be a pair of worlds colliding.

	14-04-2005 16:33									#11
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i was wondering if amsterdamn or the hague or rotterdam had a strong mexican showing. IVe been thinking it be cool to open a taqueria in any of those cities...given the financial backing.

	14-04-2005 16:38									#12
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all ready enough of them here i think...i come from a little town (60.000 people) and we have 2 mexican restaurants...and i know for a fact that amsterdam has atleast one GREAT MEXICAN restaurant...

quote: dutch mexican, that must be a pair of worlds colliding

if we can dutchify chinees, indian, french, american (read mcdonalds), japanese and indonees foods we sure as hell can dutchify mexican food...(not saying it gets better because of it) but maybe i am biased because i am just to my mothers food and we lived in Indonesia for 14 years...

	14-04-2005 16:40									#13
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I don´t think there´s a purely mexican restaurant in Sweden. But almost every fast food place and pub has something tex-mex. And you can find loads of tex-mex stuff in supermarkets in Sweden as well.

But I´ve always wondered what the difference is between tex-mex and "proper" mexican food.

	14-04-2005 16:51									#14
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In Germany, there are some spanish/mexican styled steak houses like Tascaria Maredo, plus many smaller places, Taco bars etc.

I should mention that this brings up one of the many advantages my home town Cottbus in the deep province of south Brandenburg had over the state capital Potsdam which is equally sized. We had an Irish pub, a Mexican pub, an American diner. Potsdam has none of the like, probably because it's so close to Berlin. Just the usual prole beer pubs

	14-04-2005 16:52									#15
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One tastes good, the other is the tipical gruel you would imagine proles would eat.

Insert Tex-Mex or Mexican into the slots you prefer

	14-04-2005 17:00									#16
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yeah, most is Tex-Mex anyway

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

	14-04-2005 18:10									#17
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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.

	14-04-2005 18:40									#18
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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.

	14-04-2005 18:57									#19
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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.

	14-04-2005 19:16									#20
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No... not to great extent, maybe some.. but lots of Tex-Mex places I figure.

	14-04-2005 19:22									#21
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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?

	14-04-2005 19:23									#22
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Because we get proper curry direct from real South Asians.

	14-04-2005 19:24									#23
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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.

	14-04-2005 19:25									#24
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quote: 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.

	14-04-2005 19:48									#25
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quote: Originally posted by pchang Because we get proper curry direct from real South Asians.

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

	14-04-2005 19:53									#26
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I think we have a mexican restraunt, but I am not sure. I am certain there is one in Tel Aviv.

	14-04-2005 20:20									#27
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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.

	14-04-2005 20:46									#28
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my place does not have a mexican

	14-04-2005 21:32									#29
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quote: 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.

	14-04-2005 21:36									#30
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quote: 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.