The title says it all.

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Has anybody tried a little place called "La Fiesta Mexicana"?  It's
on Cross Street in Ypsilanti, just southeast of the EMU campus.  I'm
not a connoisseur of Mexican food by any means, but everything I've
had there has been quite tasty (and spicy), and the management seems
to be authentically Mexican.

My wife and I ate there last year.  The food was good.

We like the Don Carlos restaurant on Washtenaw better.  They have a 
buffet at lunctime ($5.95 on weekdays, $6.95 on weekends) that's a
great deal.  The buffet often has selections not found on the menu.
At various times, they have had albondigas (meatball) soup and a
spicy lamb dish that I liked.

Of course, the best Mexican resturants are still in Detroit.  We 
really should organize a road trip.  There are a couple of Mexican
bakeries down there that I like, too.

It's our favorite Mexican restaurant.  

Outside of Detroit, we used to like Tenuda's Villa Rio in
Pontiac, but the neighborhood has gotten so scary we never
go there any more.  One of the teachers at our kids' school
is a Mexican-from-Mexico, and she says the only edible Mexican
food she's had in the Detroit area is at Mexican Village at
Drake and Walnut Lake Roads in West Bloomfield.  We've eaten
there a few times and I don't think it's all that great.  It
might be that I just don't "get" Mexican food.

 If the title truly said it all, there would be no need to respond.

Opps.  Our West Bloomfield restaurant is called "Old Mexico."

This reataurant has nothing to do with Michigan.  It is located in
MN, somewhere and its name is "Los Banditos", they serve you
a humongous plate of fine food.  My relatives are usually surprised
at how much I can eat.

Fascinating.

La Casita da Lupe is good, but *way* over priced.  I got cheaper Dos Equis
in New Zealand!

If you go abroad (outside of the americas) I reccomend taking along your
own salsa.  They have a funny idea of what salsa is -- or even if it should
exist.  Had lunch at a Tex-Mex restaurant in Edinburgh (Scotland) and for
garnishes they brought an assortment of sweet pickles and relishes.  However
they did actually serve jalopenas on the Nachos.  Got some interesting
stares in N.Z. when at a Mexican restaurant we ordered chips with they're
hottest salsa.  Was about the same level as Ortega "medium" so asked that
the rest of the meal be spiced at approx. the same level.  Don't think
a lot of the rest of the English speaking world consumes hot peppers like
we do in the states.

Weird... I'd thought that Americans were wimps compared to folks from
other countries when it comes to spicy food.  Look at the cuisines of
India or Thailand, for example.

Until it closed down, I liked "Trini & Carmen's"

re #10:  I think he's suggesting you take salsa with you when you go
to countries that you don't normally connect with Mexican food, e.g.
countries in the British Commonwealth and Europe.  British food is 
the most bland of any I've ever tasted.

Blood Pudding=just as delicious as it sounds.

A number of years ago, a group of m-net folks went to the Detroit
Museum of Art and afterwards, went to a great Mexican restaurant.
I can't recall the name of it but the Andres would know since
they recommended it!  :-)

If you go to Lansing, the best Mexican restaurant in the state (IMHO) is
El Azteco.  Also one in E. Lansing, which many MSU grads think of fondly
later in life.

Quite agree! El Azteco has to be one of the few places worth waiting for a
table. We went with a party of 8 one time, and the bill was so low people
were fighting for it! (I stayed out of the fray).

Anyone do any dining out at a Mexican restaurant or otherwise do 
anything special for Cinco de Mayo this weekend?  I saw that there was 
a parade and festival for the occasion downtown Detroit but had too 
many other things to do, so I couldn't go. It probably would've been 
fun, though.

I made a taco salad for dinner.  Does that count? ;-)

Sure it does, Mary!  :-)

Weirdly, I ate Mexican (or some derivative of) all day.  We did a 
breakfast cruise with Dave's car club and I had eggs scrambled with 
peppers, onions, cheese and it came with beans and a tortilla, late 
lunch of Taco Bell, and then a Cinquo de Mayo themed wedding with 
various Mexican appetizers for the reception.  

Sounds like fun, Brooke...

The breakfast and the reception were fun...if any of you are ever out 
in Phoenix, I recommend two things:  Call me and we'll go up to 
Tortilla Flats (it's east of the city, up in the Superstition 
Mountains) - the drive is spectacular.  The other thing is that if you 
don't want to go with me, go on your own.  ;-)

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