Do you know a good mexican restaurant in Niederdorf?
Hello everybody!
I don't know about the Niederdorf, but this thread has information on Mexican shops and i think there is mention of a restaurant in Basel.
There is one on the Niederdorf (name fails me but it's on the right walking away from Central) and you will need to book. Also Das Turm is a little of a similar ilk.
I did a search on www.search.ch and www.suche.ch and found something:
TURM is a excellent mexican restaurant in niederdorf strase
Blech! The Mexican Restaurant in the Niederdorf, Mexicana or something, is awful. I'll say it again. Yuck!
Good Mexican food in Zurich is Tres Kilos. There is one in Seefeld on Dufourstrasse, also one on the other side of the lake.
There is also Desperados, okay Mexican food.
Turm is okay, I wouldn't call it excellent and I wouldn't really call it Mexican. Also kind of pricey.
Turm is considered "Caribbean", I believe. If you like sitting in a palm tree whilst you eat sporting "Toni" glasses, it's for you
Tres Kilos also has gone down the pan in the last 10 years. But they have great crayons
i would say turm is definetly pricy but they have some good mexican and spanish food on the menu..
I have yet to find any "good" Mexican food in Europe...but I am from California and my standards are pretty high.
We did go to the new Don Weber in Zurich West (Heinrichstrasse) and it was better than anyhting I have had in Zurich so far.
Better to go to el Maiz near the Hauptbahnof, buy your own ingredients and make your own!
Good luck,
fduvall
There is a Mexican restaurant by me in Schmiede Wiedikon (10 mins by tram from Niederdorf, number 14 from Hbf or bhfquai). I have heard mixed reviews though to be honest. Not seen any hip youngsters like myself in it as i have walked past though
that's Desperados which was mentioned earlier
Well, regarding Tres Kilos ate there with a friend of mine who grew up in Mexico and he said besides what he's made at his home it's the best he's had in Mainland Europe. But also, "Californian" Mexican food is different than "mexican" Mexican food, which varies from region to region. (Lived in CA myself for a long time)
Aye, apologies, my natural sense excitement at acts of altruism blinded me to the previous post ;-)
Sorry Pia I have to agree with fduvall on this one. I am also from the USA
and the Mexican restaurants in Europe do not compare to authentic back
in Mexico and the USA. I would have to say they are cheap imitations.
Good luck
DX
let's see - compare a Mexican restaurant with one in Mexico?
I think the taxi fare afterwards would make up for the disappointment
Chemgoddess is right - Having travelled in Mexico, I can't compare the food there to the "Tex-Mex" I'm most familiar with, and Californian Mexican is altogether different but ok (except the fish tacos, ugh).
If you ever have had good Tex-Mex (muy caliente, muy bueno!) you will never turn back. I recommend stay away from Mexican food here and just go for the Margaritas.
Ack! But the Margaritas are even worse than the Mexican food here. We went to a mexican place in the Latin Quarter of Paris that I thought was quite good. They had a slurpee like machine full of margaritas, nice and slushy. They looked like they were good, but we didn't try any.
The two 'Tex-Mex' restaurants in Baden (Tex-Mex Guru www.texmex-rest.ch ) and Wettingen (Mexican Restaurant and Bar www.texmex4you.ch ) were both passable here. They seem to be kind of an Indian/Mexican crossover. The chicken fajitas were about as good as I've had them here in CH. Well, other than the ones I make, which are far better, but I have to make 'em. ;-) At the restaurant in Baden I ordered with as much Spanish as I could speak, jokingly. I noticed my food seemed pretty spicy after that. :-)
Yip desparado's..big portions and a little bit odd and not super expensive. Its not great mexican, but its pretty decent food.
Yes - after growing up and living more than 40 years in CA, I have been all over Mexico more than a few times...There is Mexican food, there is Tex-Mex, there is Cali-Mexican food, and there are many restaurants in CA that are run by Mexicans for Mexicans. From Sonora and Sinaloa to Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico is a pretty large country, as well.
The point is, I have not found anything in any place that I have visited so far in Europe that I think is good. Just my opinion, but there you have it.
fduvall
The Desperados in Wiedikon is quite popular among the under 25 years old, often it is stuffed with them on Fridays and Saturdays between 9 and 11 in the evening.