Do you have a favorite dinner that you frequently order at a Mexican restaurant?
Mine is
1 Cheese Enchilada
1 beef Enchilada
1 taco made with ***shredded roast beef (if available)
Refried beans
Tortilla Chips and queso dip
Dessert sopapillas with honey
I don’t like the red or green sauce. Too spicy for my GERD.
***Our restaurant is run by a Mexican family. They use shredded roast beef in the burritos and tacos.
Any place offers fish tacos, that’s what I’m getting.
These days my go-to is a quesabirria taco plate.
There’s no way I could ever eat it all but the spread pictured in the gatefold of ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres would be my ultimate fantasy Mexican dinner
It depends. At our favorite Mexican restaurant, it’s a chicken tostada/chicken enchilada combo (if I’m really hungry), or just a chicken tostada plate (w/ rice, beans, and a small salad). These are also my usual default in a restaurant that is unknown to me. There are a few restaurants in our rotation where I’ll order something different. At one place, it’s their quesabirria tacos. At another, bisteca ala Chicana. Yet another place I’ll order pozole. If I’m ordering from a roach coach, however, I’ll usually get an assortment of street tacos: lengua, cabeza, buche, etc. My wife is usually drawn to fish tacos, but not always.
My go-to is a cheese enchilada with red sauce, chicken enchilada or chicken flauta with guacamole, pork tamale, along with Mexican rice and refried beans.
Also chips with queso, salsa, and guacamole.
This is my absolute favorite meal across all cuisines, assuming it’s from a good Mexican restaurant (preferably Tex-Mex). I always get this or something similar whenever I visit my mom and extended family in Houston.
It’s probably a good idea there isn’t anything like this (i.e. a good Mexican restaurant) here in Connecticut—it wouldn’t be good for my waistline. (Even the best Mexican restaurants here are a poor comparison to what I can get in Houston.)
It depends on the restaurant. If I’m at Mi Tierra in San Antonio, I’m ordering menudo, even if it’s dinner time. At the local taquerias here in Corpus Christi it’s usually beef enchiladas with refried beans, rice, guacamole, and homemade tortillas.
Yeah, depends on the restaurant for me, too.
Herrera’s Tex-Mex? I want a crispy beef taco with a cheese enchilada and a guacamole tostada.
Esperanza’s over in Fort Worth? Green chile pork guisada, por favor.
Tacos La Gloria? Oh, I want the taco plate, al pastor. Though, that crazy loaded hot dog always is tempting.
Mojarra Frita, which is a whole fish fried.
Even on my low-carb diet, I’ve been gaining weight. It might be because I do indulge in breakfast burritos so often. Low-carb tortillas, but eggs, bacon, and cheese (and Tapatio).
One of my favourites since I was a kid is a sincronizada: A 12-inch flour tortilla with layers of refried beans, ham, and shredded cheese; topped with another tortilla and put in the oven until it’s hot through and through. Slice like a pizza, and top with sour cream, guacamole, a little more shredded cheese, and diced tomatoes. I liked to smear the topping all over everything when I was a kid. I won’t eat them today though. 
Weirdly, your link isn’t working for me. But yeah, I love whole fried tilapia. I’ve been thinking, recently, about making some.
Hehe, when I was a kid there was a place named Dos Gringos that made exactly that, but called it a “Quesadilla (mexican pizza)”, listed as an appetizer. Great stuff, the tortilla was crispy, and pretty much every quesadilla I had after that was not as good. Now I know what to hunt for. Thankya!
Birria tacos (beef, not goat) on corn torts that have been dipped in the broth and charred on the grill. There is a small bodega down the street that makes them to perfection.
I love a combo of one shredded beef enchilada and one chile relleno.
I love posole.
‘La Cucaracha’ at Casa (de) Miguel at Montgomery Field in San Diego.
This was a full meal. Two full meals, even for a ravenous youngster.
Happy hunting!
A large magarita or two 
Many truncated memories of Garcia’s of Scottsdale after a 12 day Las Vegas trade show exhibiting our wares. I recall nothing of the food but clearly the zone about half way through the oversized cocktails……nada past that point. 
Yeah, I love margaritas more than they love me, that’s for sure!
I don’t recall any hangover …..i do have these lacunae part way through the second drink. I did recall something …..their in house tortilla chips with guacamole were delightful and constantly refilled by staff. 
I’m fond of tamales, but you don’t usually find them except at places that specialize in them.
Yeah, they’re holiday season food.
There was a restaurant in San Gabriel that had a lunch I loved. A cheese quesadilla with sauteed mushrooms, and on the side an olla de frijoles – a bean soup with bacon and cilantro. It was such a satisfying meal.
I’m so over the idea of seasonal foods. Tell me which season tamales aren’t delicious, I dare ya.
Back on topic, my essential tremor complicates my relationship with flatware, so I tend to gravitate towards hand-held foods. A few months ago, I had the most scrumptious chicken burrito of my life (the venue has since closed, so I may never get it again 
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But I do miss going to a Mexican restaurant and ordering a combination plate with enchilada, taco, and chile relleno next to rice and beans,
Chicken, carne asada, and cheese, respectively.
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