During my trip last month to Texas, my first meal occurred at a great Tex-Mex restaurant called Mario and Alberto’s. Now, when you live in Dallas (or Austin) and love the Tex Mex as I do, you basically survey the options (eating one or two meals of Tex Mex a day, if necessary for your research) and find that this place has the best salsa, this place the best refried beans, this place the freshest tortillas, this place the best enchiladas, this place the best margaritas, this place the best chips….you get the picture. It is hard to find a place that has the best everything, but M&A comes close.
It’s probably a self-preservation mechanism because all this time on the West Coast and my mouth forgot what a REAL cheese enchilada tastes like. Around here, they are just cheese in a tortilla with some kind of smooth, orange-colored, pureed sauce of indeterminate origins. If you have not had one in Texas, you probably don’t know that in Tex Mex cuisine a cheese enchilada is NOT the vegetarian option on the menu. Oh, no, amigo. The REAL cheese enchilada is smothered in chile con CARNE (that’s meat, in case you don’t know) and possibly some chopped onions, too. When I bit into it, oh, the joy. It was like my mouth woke from a long slumber. And the refried beans, dark and warm with little shreds of pork adding that greatest of flavor — pork fat! Yum! And the salsa, with some actual kick from a chile pepper. Yes, it’s probably just as well that flavor is a difficult memory to conjure up. I’d just get depressed at my current local options….
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Holy moly. That sounds delicious.
I too have eaten my way through parts of Texas. There used to be a place in Edmonds that did as close to real Tex Mex as I ‘ve had up here. Honest, the guy won the Texas chili cook-off and had the best chili burreto I’ve ever had. Went over there a few years back and found the resturaunt had been closed and I have mourned the loss ever since. Maybe someone knows where he went? I’d follow him anywhere that didn’t involve a plane ride.
It IS good! I wonder about that guy, Sheri. He’d be a welcome addition to Bainbridge!