I think we just have to try a lot of places and find it for ourselves. This thread is a good running list to try.
Tex Mex is kind of an out of the box thing. One thing we missed from Houston was Alecias. They had awesome fresh salsa, thin chips, a green sauce if you wanted it and the best damn seafood enchiladas I'd be willing to kill a small army over. Something we can't make at home. My wife doesn't eat beef and I will eat fish and seafood so that has to be my new standard. Plus since few make it well, if we find it, that will be the place.
I think the issue is that we do cook a lot at home, every meal in fact. My 15 year old daughter bakes and my wife is an outstanding cook. So, there just aren't any places that do a lot of it better. Hamburgers, bbq, steak, tacos, chicken fried steak….we aren't going to be finding any place that does it better and we will always be disappointed by getting it somewhere and paying for it. So, Bill Millers and Whataburger will get the job done and not leave room for disappointment since the expectation is already set. The bar is set high which means it limited to things we can't or don't do well ourselves.
The only my place we've eaten over here that we truly consider the best eating experience we've ever had is J Prime. Absolutely a place I'd love to go to on the regular but we save it for special occasions since it's pricey.
I can't really answer your question. I just have to try them all and we'll know it when we find it. Everyone has different tastes. Honestly, for Mexican food, I've never in my life had better enchiladas than Los Tios as a kid in Houston. That's been my standard for them ever since and I've never been in a place in 30 years that matched them anywhere.
I'm going to keep watching this thread and keep trying places.
Tex Mex is kind of an out of the box thing. One thing we missed from Houston was Alecias. They had awesome fresh salsa, thin chips, a green sauce if you wanted it and the best damn seafood enchiladas I'd be willing to kill a small army over. Something we can't make at home. My wife doesn't eat beef and I will eat fish and seafood so that has to be my new standard. Plus since few make it well, if we find it, that will be the place.
I think the issue is that we do cook a lot at home, every meal in fact. My 15 year old daughter bakes and my wife is an outstanding cook. So, there just aren't any places that do a lot of it better. Hamburgers, bbq, steak, tacos, chicken fried steak….we aren't going to be finding any place that does it better and we will always be disappointed by getting it somewhere and paying for it. So, Bill Millers and Whataburger will get the job done and not leave room for disappointment since the expectation is already set. The bar is set high which means it limited to things we can't or don't do well ourselves.
The only my place we've eaten over here that we truly consider the best eating experience we've ever had is J Prime. Absolutely a place I'd love to go to on the regular but we save it for special occasions since it's pricey.
I can't really answer your question. I just have to try them all and we'll know it when we find it. Everyone has different tastes. Honestly, for Mexican food, I've never in my life had better enchiladas than Los Tios as a kid in Houston. That's been my standard for them ever since and I've never been in a place in 30 years that matched them anywhere.
I'm going to keep watching this thread and keep trying places.
