/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6080680]

http://www.soldemexicochicago.com/menu2.html

This is one of the most Mexican menus in the US. Would you walk away from it not being too americanized?

[Anonymous No.6080694]

>most mexian
>enchiladas
>stuffed peppers
>tortas
>salad

how the is this different than any mexican place in so cal

[Anonymous No.6080695]

>>6080680
I'd eat it if I had to be in Chicago for some god forsaken reason.

[Anonymous No.6080697]

>>6080694
>he thinks torta azteca is a sandwich

[Anonymous No.6080707]

>>6080680

No, I'd walk away because I read that gauc was $8 and don't need to read further knowing the rest of the prices are probably jacked up ridiculously high as well

[Anonymous No.6080718]

>>6080680
Lot of disdain for South of the Border cuisine on /ck/. Post at your own discretion.

[Anonymous No.6080728]

>Tostaditas de Ceviche "Chichihuliti"

Crisp little tortillas piled with lime-marinated Pacific yellowtail, manzanillo olives, tomato, serrano pepper, avocado and cilantro


>Carne a La Tampiqueña

Charcoal-grilled, butterflied, Crekstone natural skirt steak, marinated in red-chile, black beans, guacamole, and a red mole sauce enchilada. (Tampico)

This shit sounds gangster as fuq

[Anonymous No.6080738]

>>6080680
>one of the most Mexican menus in the US

>total bullshit

there's about 5 mom n pop shops near me that serve actual mexican food, this is pretentious hipster iron chef mexico wannabe bullshit.

and way underpriced. all that fancy talk and degustation for $45? steak entrees are $19?
>bullshit
>bullshit
>bullshit

two dollar whore in 20 dollar shoes

[Anonymous No.6080739]

>>6080728
Sounds like the average menu on a San Diego food truck...

[Anonymous No.6080743]

>>6080718

>lot of disdain for hipstermemefoodiefaggotry

is more like it

there's more Mexicans posting here than were at the Alamo you dumbass

[Anonymous No.6080746]

>>6080680

Ever been to America or are you just an American who has never left his Illinois flyover hellhole?

There's a shit ton of mexican places in the US that don't have "Americanized" food and aren't this pretentious hipster bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6080749]

>>6080738
Prove it

>>6080739
I wouldn't doubt it. Outside the burritos and asada fries, san diego has decent Mexican

[Anonymous No.6080755]

>>6080746
Its one of the least pretentious restaurants in chicago. If you want pretentious go to Mexique or topolobampo. This restaurant is just serving traditional recipes

[Anonymous No.6080758]

>>6080746
+1

[Anonymous No.6080760]

>>6080738
>this is pretentious hipster iron chef mexico wannabe bullshit
yup.

Also I don't understand "most mexican", when I go to taco shops that are owned and operated by actual Mexicans and live within a few hours drive of the border.

I always have a good laugh at Chipotle retards who pay triple-price for a rice burrito, but this restaurant is a whole other level.

[Anonymous No.6080762]

>>6080749
>>6080755
>>6080728
>>6080680

sorry your cheapo attempt at MexiRamsay is failing, samefag, but you don't need to shit up our board to try and get some viral

[Anonymous No.6080763]

>>6080755
traditional food at 500% markup, got it.

[Anonymous No.6080765]

>>6080760
Find me something that is pretentious or overpriced about this menu. Not all Mexican can be made in a taqueria

[Anonymous No.6080767]

>>6080680
>This is one of the most Mexican menus in the US.
By what you and metric, OP?
I had cohinita pibil recently myself, and it was nowhere near Illinois.

[Anonymous No.6080770]

>>6080767
>by you and what metric, OP?
Got me dyslexic.

[Anonymous No.6080772]

This thread gives me an idea:

>move to Asia
>set up shop in a rich-hipster town
>Ameriqu™
>serve average burgers, hot dogs and pizza
>add a few tweeeeest ingredients
>quadruple the price
>make the place as hipster as possible
>rake in the cash and then shitpost when retards make threads about my restaurant

inb4 "that would never work"
It's working, right now, at a million places in US, Europe and Asia. Sell food that's different than what locals are used to, snob up the place, and most importantly, sell out once the hipsters think it's "too popular"

[Anonymous No.6080775]

>>6080749

prove what? it's plain as day.

degustation menus: exactly zero of them involve the customer choosing some part of it.

it is a very specific, very well understand formula that you can't slap on a fucking a la carte "kitchen specials menu" which is what your $45 version is here, and combined with the dead low prices for entrees means that this is a mid tier casual dining Mexican joint with delusions of iron chefery

and traditional Mexican food is fucking everywhere where i live because you know why?

>spoiler: there's a shitload of mexicans here

Most of the Mexican restaurants in my town don't even have a menu in English you dumb fucker, jesus christ leave Flyoverlandia once in a while and visit the rest of America?

[Anonymous No.6080778]

burritos dont have to be overcomplicated

[Anonymous No.6080779]

>>6080775
Show me those Mexican restaurants
. I bet you 80% will have those tex mex items

[Anonymous No.6080780]

>>6080772

This has already happened.

>fucking Japan, of course
>also Burger King is a dress up sit down restaurant in some azn countries

[Anonymous No.6080786]

>>6080779
http://supercocinasd.com/

>pwned bitch

[Anonymous No.6080787]

>>6080778
Is that....what I think it is?

[Anonymous No.6080827]

I was really sad when I figured out this wasn't a troll thread, and OP wrote with literally all of the sincerity in the world.

>>6080680
People from Chicago really are jerks. These are the four jerk you'll meet in and from Chicago.
>Insufferable sports fans. Nuff said.
>The honorary Chicagoan. "I'm from Chicago, too!" said the student at the out-of-state/country university, but really they're from like Belvedere, IL or some even more godforsaken place
>The pseudo-connoisseur foodie. "Our gastronomy and cuisines are better than anything you've ever had" attitude. Oh, you've been to Canlis in Seattle? / Oh, you've had sushi at Masa in New York? / Oh, you've been to Bern's in Miami for steak / Oh, you've eaten at Toque in Montreal / ad infinitum. Let me tell you how much better XYZ place is than what you've had. See OP.
>The ethnic minority street murderer. "I'm going to murder you."

I think that about covers it.

You stated that this random restaurant in Chicago, Illinois is somehow as Mexican if not more Mexican than food found in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. PS not all Mexican food in Texas is Tex-Mex or Tejanas grub. I'd wager there's better Mexican in Oklahoma, Nevada, and Louisiana.

[Anonymous No.6080834]

>>6080786
I have stated that San Diego has a decent Mexican food culture in this thread

[Anonymous No.6080841]

>>6080762

Sorry bro not OP, just saw the thread and actually do think it looks delicious, the prices are way high but the food combos look cool

[Anonymous No.6080858]

>>6080827
>I'd wager there's better Mexican in Oklahoma, Nevada, and Louisiana.
Outside of Mexico, Chicago maybe the place that has the most home made tortillas in the US. Plus Chicago has one of the biggest highest Mexican population in the US. Also, You mentioned New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, states infamous with mexican-american. Mexican American didn't really hit big in Chicago so you'll see more food from the motherland such as guaje mole, cemitas, and baja cuisine

[Anonymous No.6080885]

>>6080786
>“Instead of city-slicker chef creations, you'll enjoy simple, spicy country food - mainly the astonishingly varied stews that are the mainstays of home cooking. There’s no professional chef here; these are the family dishes of local housewives from all over Mexico

This sounds like a place to support

[Anonymous No.6080892]

>>6080787
Depends on what you think the red sauce is. I can't tell if it's ketchup or memesauce.

[Anonymous No.6080899]

This place is way the fuck out west, forget that.

The problem is that everyone wants to be the next Frontera/Xoco/etc. But I would suggest just taking the pink line to Pilsen.

[Anonymous No.6080901]

>>6080885
you could the same for the link in the first post

[Anonymous No.6080906]

>>6080738
>3000 block of N Cicero
>hipster

Yeah, no. This is in the northwest side of Chicago in the middle of a massive latino neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.6080923]

>eat family meal at restaurant 5-6 nights a week
>4-5 nights it's mexicans, making shit they eat
>op thinks these same people either never go out to eat (not true), or eat less authentic food in their own neighborhoods

[Anonymous No.6081349]

i love mexican threads, shit posting is a requirement

[Anonymous No.6081470]

>>6080680

Not sure what the race card angle is here, Americans love all kinds of food from all over the world, its 2014 etc etc, but i think the menu looks awesome, 9/10 would eat until fat and so on.

[Anonymous No.6081475]

>>6081470
>Not sure what the race card angle is here

He was simply explaining that where he lived wasn't a hipster neighborhood as demonstrated by its demographics.

[Anonymous No.6081692]

This shows /ck/'s limitation on what Mexican food is and isn't.

1)Chicago has one of the best mexican in the US

I'd say its in the top 4

2)There is nothing pretentious about the food


3)The prices are ideal if you willing to pay more for better ingredients

[Anonymous No.6081744]

>>6080680
So they serve human meat instead of animal like the Aztecs?

[Anonymous No.6081806]

>>6081744
>aztecs
>Mexican

pick one

[Anonymous No.6081818]

>>6081806
You seen one taco bender, you've seen them all

[Anonymous No.6081827]

>>6081806
>pretends Mexicans aren't the same blood thirsty Aztec savages they were before the conquistadors tried to save their souls

[Anonymous No.6081858]

>>6081827
>pretends the spanish didnt fuck so many blood thirsty natives that there are no real aztecs left

they certainly wouldnt pass the american kennel club standards

[Anonymous No.6081886]

>>6081858
>aztecs aren't as pure as my inbred puppies derefore dey not aztecs

[Anonymous No.6081902]

>>6081886
Mexico is a mestizo country. Everything is Mixed, from the food to cities.

[Anonymous No.6081908]

>>6081902

As a country maybe. There are still places where the whites and the natives barely mixed.

[Anonymous No.6081919]

>>6081902
>this is what multicultists actually believe

[Anonymous No.6081928]

>>6081919
>trolling this bad