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Where is the best MEXICAN restaurant in Medellin?

I know, Medellin is full of Mexican restaurants... but where can I get the very best?

Usher

By usher127 on Mar 31, 2008, 19:23 in Friendly Talkzone.

Medellin Traveler says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:26:

Medellin is full of Mexican restaurants?

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usher127 says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:27:

I realise this post is very boring... if you must... give me the answers and then argue about it until someone gets deleted.

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vladimiro says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:28:

never found good mexican food in medellin in the years I spent there

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Medellin Traveler says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:35:

I know there are about two Mexican restaurants in El Pobaldo, other then that, I thought it would be a great idea to open up a small Mexican restaurant somewhere in Antioquia.

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RUV says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:49:

There is a fast food Mexican chain, forgot the name of it. I have seen them in the malls. Coming from a Mexican it was sub standard. Salsa sucked

MT:
How would Colombians take to Mexican resturant? I take it that most Colombians do not like spicy / hot foods.

I think a Indian resturant may work out better. Then again I am guessing here.

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tejasmarcos says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:51:

i haven't found a decent mexican restaurant here yet.

trying to walk a straight line on sour mash and cheap wine...

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peteyw says on Mar 31, 2008, 19:57:

Mmm. .. yes, an Indian restaurant! And a Thai restaurant.

Wait, even better a real Bar B Que rib joint; a real one, with the meat falling off the bones (pork or beef ribs and I mean 'smoked' ribs), some Hot Links, potato salad, genuine American drippin-from-your-lips Bar BQ sauce and with some pumpkin pie for desert and an ice cold Sam Adams to wash it down.

Take me home....

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RUV says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:06:

Tejas:
I know what you mean. I wanted to take a friend to a Mexican resturant to taste some real hot salsa, but could not find one. I told them that I would make them some mole the next time I go.

Pete:
Actually the Thai resturant would be good.

I am actually thinking a Korean BBQ would be a hit. They have them all over Japan.

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usher127 says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:06:

There isnt a single Thai restaurant, even though Thaico in Parque Lleras claims to be one.

I assumed there must be at least 1 upper class mexican restaurant somewhere... maybe not.

Definately no indians.

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Medellin Traveler says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:07:

RUV,

The Mexican food does not need to be spicy.

Tacos, enchiladas, posole, chilaquiles, tortas, arroz con pollo, chicken mole, chiles rellenos, and burritos as big as your head :O) all served with TORTILLAS!

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DodgerDogs says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:07:

Us this restaurant guide for Colombia restaurants.
http://www.losmejoresrestaurantesdecolombia.com/Contenido/Results.aspx

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webmanco says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:10:

I was looking for one Mexican restaurant as well and there is none fully Mexican restaurant, but a few places with fast food.

I was surprise to see Mexican Ice-cream in Medellín at a shopping mall.

...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ...

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DodgerDogs says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:12:

There aare many in Bogota , and Medellin has a few that are Mexican food only.

AL PATIO LAS PALMAS
Especialidad:
Mexicana|Parrilla
Dirección: CRA 38 19-268 AL INTER Medellín
Telefonos: 2666060
Horarios de atención:

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AY CARAMBA
Especialidad:
Mexicana
Dirección: CRA 37A 8A-60 Medellín
Telefonos: 3115610
Horarios de atención:

http://www.losmejoresrestaurantesdecolombia.com/Contenido/Results.aspx

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RUV says on Mar 31, 2008, 22:09:

MT:
You are correct. Not all has to be spicy, but what do you put on all the stuff you just mention. If you go to most Mexican's house for dinner you will find fresh salsa and chillies on the table.

I think the tortilla vs arepa war was already brought up. I am pro flour tortillas. Thanks, now I have a serious craving for one.

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DodgerDogs says on Mar 31, 2008, 22:45:

Exito sells Bimbo brand flour tortillas

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RUV says on Apr 1, 2008, 06:31:

Dogerdogs,

Home made tortillas are the way to go.

A friend of mine used to work for Bimbo in Colombia. She did not really like them. I never tried them.

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vladimiro says on Apr 1, 2008, 07:01:

"I thought it would be a great idea to open up a small Mexican restaurant somewhere in Antioquia."

Maybe, but I don't think so, they generally don't like spicy food in Medellin and the average person eats nothing but variations of Bandeja Paisa. A good antioqueno restaurant will do well.

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Mononoke28 says on Apr 1, 2008, 10:37:

To echo what Medellín Traveler said earlier: "Medellin is full of Mexican restaurants?". And I'm not making fun.

I also thought that a good Mexican restaurant would to well in Colombia, especially in Medellín but my husband made very good points:

1. Most Colombians do not like spicy food. It takes a lot to convince them to try it and after they do, they still hate it.
2. Colombians do not like to try "new" stuff.
3. Colombians do not like to spend money on food they don't know and may not like vs. a typical meal with Colombian style beans and rice.

Diana

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 1, 2008, 14:19:

Salsa is on the side.... Mexican food is better tastin' than Colombia food........... YES? NO?

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RUV says on Apr 1, 2008, 14:45:

MT:
Yes.

Tortillas / Arepas:
Tortillas.

Salsas does not have to be hot to be good.

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 1, 2008, 15:21:

If the salsa is too hot, it kills your tastebuds... leave the hot salsa for real men.... Mexi-cans :O)

I think a small Mexican restaurant in Medellin has a great opportunity to be successful, with some great food and creative marketing behind it, it may work.

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tejasmarcos says on Apr 1, 2008, 15:39:

mde has a mexican food restaurant down on la mesa buena, not very good though (decent). there is however, a real nice peruvian place next door that is awesome. can't remember the name....

trying to walk a straight line on sour mash and cheap wine...

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RUV says on Apr 1, 2008, 16:08:

If Salsa is to hot, it hids the taste of crappy food.

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robi666 says on Apr 1, 2008, 16:18:

We had dinner in AY CARAMBA in Parque Lleras two weeks ago, with Ken, Tejas, Raaay and Miguel_Clavo.
It is nothing good and it is expensive. To avoid.

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 17:55:

with all due respect I don't think most restaurants in Bogota (at least) that pretend to sell mexican food is "real" mexican food but tex-mex food. Yes indeed as Medellin Traveler said not all mexican food has to be spicy but spicy food and tortillas are the most famous, you can eat a fish with tortilla but it is not necessary to eat with tortilla all the time (ask houstongal, maybe she can give you further details on pescado a la veracruzana).

Please guys, burritos is not mexican food but "american".

I personally hate Bimbo flour tortillas, they suck. =)

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 1, 2008, 18:33:

de pronto says, "Please guys, burritos is not mexican food but "american".

Ssssshhhhhhhhhh :O)

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adrienne79 says on Apr 1, 2008, 18:51:

I gave up looking for good Mexican or Tex-Mex in Colombia. I learned to make my own tortillas and salsa. It is time consuming but worth it.

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 1, 2008, 18:54:

There is a big fancy Mexican restaurant in Llano Grande at "the mall", we were longing for Mexican food, but it was expensive and sucked! They had a tortilla sup, and it was more like sancocho, Which I love sancocho, but it was actually nether!
I like fine Mexican food, the best are the tortilla chips, but most of the food is usualy just salt an (pique) hot!

Colombian food is waaaaaaaay better, not so spicy and ...... con buena sazon!

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mranderson says on Apr 1, 2008, 18:54:

I miss the mexican restaurants in texas that always had a bowl of tortilla chips on the table. I ate tortilla chips here once and not only were they really expensive but horrible too.

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:00:

Lisa Zee,

I've been known to eat anything when in Colombia.... but disagree, Mexican food is waaaaaaaaay better, spicy Mexican food is only spicy if you want it served that way.

How many Mexican families actually prepare spicy food when they are preparing dinner for the whole familia? It's usually the men who eat the spicy food.........

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RUV says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:02:

That reminds of a story my uncle told me.

My grandfather is old school from the ranch and used to make his own toliet paper from paper he would get here and there. He would always carry small cut out paper in his back pocket. He would use it when he had to go. One day he makes his little stack of toilet paper he got from my grandmother and about an hour later he starts to jump up and down screaming. It turns out old grandma went shopping for chillies, sure enough grand pops used that bag.

That is some nasty shit.

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:07:

Ha, you know I live in Mexifornia, and when you go to a restaurant, los chilles rubam LOL , they are everywhere. At one of my works, I see the mexican that work there, mujeres, and they have their chiles, and hot sauce all over the place, they use it like catchup.

I guess you are Mexican you like Mexican food, I am Colombian......What do you think?

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:08:

My FAVORITE food is Indian....

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:08:

"Colombian food is waaaaaaaay better" cuestión de enfoques =) y bastante respetable.

Cualquiera diría lo mismo de la gastronomía de su paìs =)

When I tell my mexican friends about colombian food they say: "is it worth colombian food without chile?" and I say "yes! it is worth"

My colombian friends say "is it worth to eat without arepa?" and I say "yes it is worth"... so I think every cuisine should be tasted as "different".

Sin comparaciones solamente disfrutarlas y ya.

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:09:

What about "Habaneros' they are the hottest ever!

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:11:

de pronto que si!.

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:12:

calla Lisa! nunca los pruebes, te mandarán al hospital!!!!

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:19:

?????? Oh the Habaneros, pero son lidos de bellos colores.

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RUV says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:21:

MT:
Ditto on the Indian food. Have you found any decent Indian resturants in Medellin? I would think it would be harder, since the spices maybe harder to come by in Medellin.

Indian and Thai are my favorites.

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:25:

sí Lisa son bonitos pero son picosísimos! el otro día comí chile de Perú y ese es el chile más picoso que he probado!

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:25:

RUV,

I usually eat at friends homes, or at the local mom-n-pop restaurants when in Medellin. At times, I will eat a bacon burger at El Corral, and McDonalds by Oviedo when meeting up with Paisa friends who like Mickey D's fries with mayonaise.

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:27:

Wow MT I love todoterreno at el corral so delicious

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:31:

I like soft tacos, ch.b.or f. lots of cilantro, salsa but not hot, with beans and avocado, yum, yum, but if you are in Colombia you can do almost the same with arepa.

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:33:

my favorite tacos are with a lot of onion, cilantro, lemon and salt! =D

But I definately love arepa with ham, cheese and hogao(sp?)

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durito says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:39:

el corral is way too expensive

keep the arepas away from my tacos please :)

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de pronto says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:40:

LOL durito i have never eaten arepas and tacos!

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tejasmarcos says on Apr 1, 2008, 20:32:

mercardo juarez soft tacos made with beef tips is quite a tasty treat. homemade corn tortillas and a bowl full of homemade chips and homemade hot sauce. mmmmmmm, best chit in the world. but then again, how to you count out chicharron?

what part of texas are your from mr anderson?

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adrienne79 says on Apr 2, 2008, 05:20:

¨How many Mexican families actually prepare spicy food when they are preparing dinner for the whole familia? It's usually the men who eat the spicy food.........¨

Have you ever been to Mexico and been to a natives house? Trust me, they don´t hold back on the spice for anyone...it is how they eat it. Mexican food and Indian food are both spicy and they don´t hold back for their kids.

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de pronto says on Apr 2, 2008, 06:09:

adrienne there are also mexicans who do not eat chile

=D

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tejasmarcos says on Apr 2, 2008, 08:11:

heres the deal. mexican food is primarily spicey in the usa and on the borders. hence the term tex mex. if you travel into mexico, you will notice that the locals who live on the interior and close to the coastal regions do not eat their food spicy. spicey mexican food is more of a border, tex mex - usa thing.

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Man Tequila says on Apr 2, 2008, 08:19:

There is a nice Mexican restaurant in Calí just opened up by some dude from California, in the restaurant zone in Versailles (Av. 8?). It is true some of the items are tex-mex, prices are cheap, salsas are fresh, only spicy food I've had in Colombia. Small place with a patio overlooking the street.

Aunque no me creas/ si me lo propongo/ lograre olvidarte/ porque a fin de cuentas/ no soy tan cobarde./ Y termino todo una de estas tardes/ no sera dificil buscar algún sitio donde refugiarme/ donde nunca mas vuelvas a encontrarme. (Polo Montañez)

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tejasmarcos says on Apr 2, 2008, 08:20:

MT - how is he doing with the place? well, i hope...

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Man Tequila says on Apr 2, 2008, 08:27:

It just opened. Owner was a nice guy, wife from Calí. He was asking the patrons to write a note on the wall with a marker to wish him luck. I wrote "best Mexican food south of Canada" ;) -- Seemed reasonably popular when I was there with the pre-dancing, after-drinking crowd, it's not a pretentious place. I asked them to make my meal as spicy as they could. They didn't have El Yucateco Habanero Sauce, but put together a reasonably spicy meal with lots of jalapeno peppers and ?San Luis sauce, plus excellent pico de gallo. Extremely tasty food.

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Mononoke28 says on Apr 2, 2008, 08:34:

I love Colombian food and will say it's pretty awesome but I have to admit that Mexican food is way better. It's tastier, has a lot more flare, more variety, they really know how to mix and match and play with their food. It's amazing.

Sorry Colombians, sad but true in my book.

Diana

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de pronto says on Apr 2, 2008, 15:27:

I do believe that colombian food is also tasty, at least I love it! I am dying to eat sancocho, bandeja paisa, arepas with ham, cheese and hogao (sp)

honestly I would be very happy if I could eat one day mexican food and next colombian food...

=)

En algún momento se hizo la propuesta de que la comida mexicana fuera considerada como patrimonio de la humanidad, en realidad no se obtuvo dicho reconocimiento por falta de bases pero hubiera sido interesante que la cocina de un país fuera considerada patrimonio de la humdanidad

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 2, 2008, 15:47:

Most food if is it cooked right is good, cheap, fast joint, does not have the quality of a nice home prepared meal.
My European friends go crazy when I cook sancocho, they said it is the best meal they have ever eaten.

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adrienne79 says on Apr 2, 2008, 16:35:

"you will notice that the locals who live on the interior and close to the coastal regions do not eat their food spicy. spicey mexican food is more of a border, tex mex - usa thing"

Not exactly true...maybe in some areas but there are some areas far into the country that eat extreemly spicy. I am speaking from experience. I lived in Mexico as an exchange student when I was 15 years old. I lived with a Mexican family and had many Mexican friends that I made while there. The food was spicier than any Tex-mex that I have ever had. (I was born and raised in TX and lived there untill I moved here last year.) In Mexico the food was often too spicy for me to handle, mainly it was the beans that are extreemly HOT.

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Man Tequila says on Apr 2, 2008, 16:41:

Not all Mexicans like spicy food, but many people in most regions of Mexico do. Hola, habanero. To me, Tex Mex just means certain dishes that lend themselves well to fast food joints and borrow much from Mexican antojitos. It's hard to get a "Big Bell Cheesy Beefy Melt" in Mexico under that name. I rarely eat at Taco Bell, but always regret it when I do.

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Robert Jorge says on Apr 4, 2008, 00:31:

My wife had heard of the word taco in reference to food, but always associated "taco" with pool cue. She had never seen a tortilla - corn or flour. She hates anything spicy, and considers A1 steak sauce spicy. She thinks I am crazy for enjoying food picante.

Off topic a little, but if you are in Miami, and want GOOD, authentic Mexican food ... take Krome Ave south into Homestead. There are several mom and pop Mexican restaurants in downtown Homestead. My favorite was La Cabradita. I don't know if it is still there.

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Medellin Traveler says on Apr 4, 2008, 14:37:

Robert Jorge,
When someone says taco in Medelin they are referring to the traffic congestion on the streets.

You can't eat taco in Medellin :O)

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 4, 2008, 15:38:

Ese era el unico taco que yo conocia, when I came here, that was the only taco I knew, but everyone would ask me: " do you miss your tacos and enchiladas from home?" and I would say: "what is a taco?".

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Juanes says on Apr 5, 2008, 08:32:

el restarante mexicano mejor es un restarante simplemente lleno de pinche mexicanos wehhhh. no manches.

http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Juanes/

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banot says on Apr 7, 2008, 13:06:

This is a very good Mexican restaurant, own by a Mexican. If u request spicy/hot... they'll provide it to you. I've eaten there, and its really good!! they have TACOS, BURROS, ALAMBRES, QUESADILLAS, NACHOS, MEXICAN MICHELADA, MEXICAN COCKTAILS, SALAD, ESQUITES, CHILAQUILES, and very reasonable prices.
let me know what u think about it...
México Lindo carrera 65D N 34-04 Barrio conquistadores, Med. Phone: 265 26 40

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