Thomas.
I find it difficult to find good Mexican food even in S. Cal. Even a franchised restaurant like On the Border is not the same. It's much better in Texas.

I guess I'm spoiled by Tex-Mex during my growing up years in Dallas, Texas.

I don't say this lightly when I say go to Texas for great Tex-Mex food, it's worth the trip. If you ever got to Dallas, there is little restaurant on Lemmon Ave called Mias. The best Tex-Mex in town. It was a favorite of the great Tom Landry.



>About 30 years ago I was trying to find a good Mexican restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area. There were three advertising on the radio, so I tried each one. I got food poisoning at each one.
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>My friend Tom Palado was from Mexico City, and knew that I like Mexican food and was sick for days after eating at local Mexican restaurants. I said, “Tom, where can I get good Mexican food”? Tom answered, “That’s easy! My mom’s house”!
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>>I am 40 years old, but still when making a burrito I almost always put too much filling in it. I get too enthused about all of the yummy ingredients that I end of with this overstuff pillow like thing that breaks apart when I eat it. Then just long enough time passes before I have them again that I forget this lesson. I guess it is sort of like making a pizza, it hard to show restraint, but if you do it turns out so good.