Las Limas vs. Acapulco Mexican Grill

[robg2251]

Been to both and I love both of them. I love the Casa de Las Limas - the stone bowl fajita mix at Las Limas. I have had awesome meals at both. What's your favorite? - Post your favorite meal too!!

[evilkumquat]

I always get the #1 (enchilada, rice, taco).

The wife always get the #8 (crap, beans).

Good food.

HORRIBLE watery salsa.

Never been to the Acapulco.

[robg2251]

Ask for the extra super hot salsa at Las Limas (I'm not sure if it's called that, it's what I call it).. it's green and WOW. You'll feel it in the morning. I think it costs extra, but nothing expensive, well worth it. I can't remember the other places salsa, I do remember their margaritas - VERY good, which is why i can't even remember what I had.. but, I do remember it was good - and jam packed!

[hairypumper]

I like the Las Limas in Auburn better, same menu different atmosphere. Wifey likes Queso de mi Casa (sp). I like Chimi Acapulco and Taco Fajita Salad. We often get Fajitas Las Limas for two. I normally mix the red and green salsas.

[sonnybear34]

When I lived in Angola I had eaten at both and my favorite by far is Acapulco. It may be a little out of the way for some, but it is definately worth it. The service was always extremely fast and friendly and I felt the food was better than Las Limas. The service was so fast, that if you wanted to socialize and have a few drinks before your meal, you had to wait to order or your food would be there before you finished half of your beverage. I really didn't have a favorite, it was all just as equally good and I never had anything that I didn't like. Since moving to Arizona, I also realized that the Mexican food that I was use to had been Americanized. Real, authentic Mexican food blows both places out of the water!

The extra hot salsa at Las Limas was called Diablo salsa, at least that was what I was told.

[evilkumquat]

Anyone else see the irony between the popularity of Mexican cuisine and the ignorant hatred of immigrants in Northeast Indiana?

It's like, "Hey! Paco! Git yer butt back ta' Me-hee-co! But make me sum o' dat there chee-polta first, yeh hear?"

[hairypumper]

Been to both and I love both of them. I love the Casa de Las Limas - the stone bowl fajita mix at Las Limas. I have had awesome meals at both. What's your favorite? - Post your favorite meal too!!

Are the prices comparable? Does Acapulco shove you into a noisy bar if you request smoking? That's why we don't go to LL Angola.

[jennyk]

I'm really not qualified to comment, since I've never been to Las Limas or Acapulco Grill in Angola, but the Las Limas in Auburn is one of the best Mexican restaurants I've been to. Granted, I haven't been to Texas — my best friend lived there and said the Mexican food down there blows the stuff up here out of the water, probably because it's REAL Mexican food — but Las Limas is good stuff. The next couple of times I'm looking for somewhere to eat and don't mind driving, I might try out those two restaurants up in Angola!

[TheBigB]

I'm really not qualified to comment, since I've never been to Las Limas or Acapulco Grill in Angola, but the Las Limas in Auburn is one of the best Mexican restaurants I've been to. Granted, I haven't been to Texas — my best friend lived there and said the Mexican food down there blows the stuff up here out of the water, probably because it's REAL Mexican food — but Las Limas is good stuff. The next couple of times I'm looking for somewhere to eat and don't mind driving, I might try out those two restaurants up in Angola!

What is REAL Mexican food? Tex Mex? New Mexican cuisine? Sonoran Mex? Baja Mex?

[hairypumper]

What is REAL Mexican food? Tex Mex? New Mexican cuisine? Sonoran Mex? Baja Mex?

All the above. The best is cooked by a real Mexican woman using real Mexican ingredients.

[TheBigB]

All the above. The best is cooked by a real Mexican woman using real Mexican ingredients.

Much of the Tex Mex cuisine evolved after Texas became independent, then a state, so I'd think that many of the best cooks of it would be quite American.

My semi snarky remark comes from the fact that most Americans think that "REAL Mexican" is Tex Mex, and they often turn up their noses when they get other styles of Mexican cuisine (usually far more "authentic" for Mexico). Try getting anything close to Tex Mex in Mexico City or Tijuana...

[edeevee]

Baja Mex?

Mmmmm, fish tacos.

[hairypumper]

Much of the Tex Mex cuisine evolved after Texas became independent, then a state, so I'd think that many of the best cooks of it would be quite American.

My semi snarky remark comes from the fact that most Americans think that "REAL Mexican" is Tex Mex, and they often turn up their noses when they get other styles of Mexican cuisine (usually far more "authentic" for Mexico). Try getting anything close to Tex Mex in Mexico City or Tijuana...

I, for one, have had authentic Mexican food and can back you up on this.

[evilkumquat]

Like many in the U.S., I need my ethnic food filtered through the blandening of corporate franchises.

My Italian through Pizza Hut, Fazolis, Ragu and Chef Boyardee.

My Mexican through Taco Bell and frozen burritos.

My Chinese through La Choy.

My Indian through... hey! Where's a guy gotta go to get some Americanized vindaloo around here?

[Jethro Gibbs]

My Italian through Pizza Hut, Fazolis, Ragu and Chef Boyardee.

I was always more of a Spaghettios fan instead of Chef Boyardee

My Chinese through La Choy.

Speaking of Chinese, how about Super Chopsticks? If you tell me thats not real Chinese then I don't want to taste the real stuff!

[TheBigB]

My Indian through... hey! Where's a guy gotta go to get some Americanized vindaloo around here?

Almost any Indian food you get in this country is Americanized to some degree or other. It is rare that I don't hear people complaining about an Indian restaurant "toning things down", unless you use some sort of special code word - and even then they often don't believe you and still tone it down.

TastyBite probably is the Chefboyardee / La Choy of Indian and Thai food.

[evilkumquat]

Speaking of Chinese, how about Super Chopsticks? If you tell me thats not real Chinese then I don't want to taste the real stuff!

I have absolutely no idea what Super Chopsticks is.

I think I am wayyyy outta the loop on modern stuff (apart from computer gaming).

[james_t]

I have absolutely no idea what Super Chopsticks is.

Super Chopsticks is the non-buffet Chinese restaurant in Kendallville. I think it was referred to in another thread as the quality option to King Buffet's quantity. Not sure I agree, but that is the explanation.

The best is cooked by a real Mexican woman using real Mexican ingredients.

I went to a quinceañera not too long ago and got my first taste of real Mexican mole. It was good stuff, but I do believe I consumed about a half-gallon of water in the process of eating it.

[evilkumquat]

Super Chopsticks is the non-buffet Chinese restaurant in Kendallville. I think it was referred to in another thread as the quality option to King Buffet's quantity. Not sure I agree, but that is the explanation.

Ahh. Now I see.

I don't live in Kendallville (though born there in a hospital that I think has since been torn down) so that is probably a good reason for not knowing any better.

Thanks for the intel.

[TheBigB]

Super Chopsticks is the non-buffet Chinese restaurant in Kendallville. I think it was referred to in another thread as the quality option to King Buffet's quantity. Not sure I agree, but that is the explanation.

Buffets, schmuffets. For many of us, the Rice Bowl was our sole exposure to Chinese restaurant food for a good chunk of our lives (15 years of mine). Mmmmmm, take out from the Rice Bowl...