SilvioM wrote: ... I need to go to as many "authentic" places as possible to atone for my years as a multitasking worker at Chi-Chi's. Still remember the birthday songs like it was yesterday....
bob.durbin wrote:Coming from a city with a very large Mexican population (Detroit) and having worked in kitchens dominated by Latins for years I feel a sense of frustration every time a new place like this opens. Don't get me wrong, I love tacos. Tacos are probably the most perfect food anyone ever came up with, next to the tamal. It seems to me like Mexican food is getting the same treatment as Chinese food and Italian before it. These are the three most welcomed and accepted forms of "ethnic" food in America today but they've all been dumbed down to represent the smallest fraction possible of what each of these cuisines has to offer. Every Chinese restaurant carries the same 40 item menu and the only difference is the cover page. Every Italian restaurant has spaghetti and red sauce or something "parmesan" which is also usually drowned in red sauce or bechamel. Every Mexican restaurant you go to offers an enchilada platter along side tacos americanos served up on flour tortillas to make them more appealing to an American audience. While I understand this from a business sense, you have to appeal to a large market of course. It just seems that in a city like Louisville that's represented as and perceived by the outside world as a growing, food forward city that we could do a little better than to keep putting up taco and pizza places with very little variation in creativity or actual authenticity.
Andrew Mellman wrote:And, BTW, while I agree about most Chinese restaurants, there are several threads here referencing others with much more authentic menus.
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