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Flowerhat

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Hello,

I am looking for a restaurant around Pretoria that makes excellent nachos.
(Spicey nachos with real cheesy and avo dip)

Can anyone advice a good place to visit where they make tasty nachos?

Has anyone ever been to Mexico, what does theirs taste like?

Thanks for all who reply
 
Yeah, Spur still do a decent enough job of it.

They used to do a Nachos Grande once upon a time. Was bloody delicious, beans, mince, avo, salsa, lettuce, nachos, chedder cheese, chillies, garlic etc etc etc Salivating at the thought of them...
 
These are few and far between. We make our own but Spur's are OK. We generally just get Nacho chips at woolies, make our own mince or chicken with mexican spice, grate some cheese over it all and then bake it. Then the wife puts together her 3 layer dip with Salsa, Guacamole, and Sour cream. To die for.
 
Flowerhat said:
Hello,

I am looking for a restaurant around Pretoria that makes excellent nachos.
(Spicey nachos with real cheesy and avo dip)

Can anyone advice a good place to visit where they make tasty nachos?

Has anyone ever been to Mexico, what does theirs taste like?

Thanks for all who reply
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Mochachos added Nachos to there menue, its pretty good I'm sure theres one close to you
 
There is a new franchise called Mexican Fresh who do decent nachos, all prepared fresh on the premises. Their food is decent, albeit somewhat of a pander to American-Mexican cuisine as opposed to traditional Mexican. Flavours are still very good and the owner tries to keep things as fresh as possible...
 
i dont think spur's liquid cheese compliments the dish.. Suppose i am going to haveto google a recipy and do it myself
 
Spurs nacho's don't class... they need some form of mince in them.
 
DJ... said:
There is a new franchise called Mexican Fresh who do decent nachos, all prepared fresh on the premises. Their food is decent, albeit somewhat of a pander to American-Mexican cuisine as opposed to traditional Mexican. Flavours are still very good and the owner tries to keep things as fresh as possible...
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Thanks DJ, will check them out
 
Those are the only 2. I've always wished Mexican would take off in SA and get bigger but it does not seem to work. There have been a few Taco places over the years but they generally close down after a few years. Hence I still make my own.
 
Cius said:
Those are the only 2. I've always wished Mexican would take off in SA and get bigger but it does not seem to work. There have been a few Taco places over the years but they generally close down after a few years. Hence I still make my own.
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I know the owner is looking to expand. He's currently going through the process of having his nutritional values analysed and standardising supply, which bodes well if he can manage to fund it properly. I hope for his sake he comes right because Mexican food is delicious and far healthier than most other takeaways. Apart from their deep-fried burrito...:D
 
Cius said:
Those are the only 2. I've always wished Mexican would take off in SA and get bigger but it does not seem to work. There have been a few Taco places over the years but they generally close down after a few years. Hence I still make my own.
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El Burro in CT does authentic Mexican, and still seems to be very popular. San Julian the same (although not as authentic). So there's definitely a market for it.
(Note: their claims of authenticity confirmed by a Mexican friend.)
 
Authentic Mexican to me is not as good as American Mexican. Its funny how that works. Most fast food outlets focused on a country are very different from what the actual country eats. For instance:

Mexican food that is common is actually America's version of Mexican which is very different to authentic Mexican
Chinese, is not Chinese, its San Francisco chinese. Sweat and Sour and other flavours like that where invented in America and then exported back to China.
Indian food is actually mostly London Indian food. Indian chefs in London experimented and came up with new dishes not native to India but with an Indian flair. For instance Rogan Josh was created in England. Only later did it catch on in India

Anyways, I care less about authenticity than I care about taste and value for money. The issue with Mexican food in SA is that the base is so expensive. In America you can pick up soft and hard shell tacos as well as tortilla chips for next to nothing. In SA you pay a fortune for 6 wraps or a small bag of Tortilla chips. That adds to the price of the entire meal as even the cheap ingredients cost you a lot before adding meat, cheese, etc.

I roll my own tortilla's for next to nothing (its flour, oil, salt, and water after all) yet to buy the same wraps would cost me R2-R3 a piece. Once we can get the bases for similar prices to pasta (which is cheap in SA due to volume) then Mexican is more likely to take off in a big way.
 
Cius said:
Sweat and Sour and other flavours like that where invented in America and then exported back to China.
Indian food is actually mostly London Indian food. Indian chefs in London experimented and came up with new dishes not native to India but with an Indian flair. For instance Rogan Josh was created in England. Only later did it catch on in India
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Ignoring the sweat typo, sweet and sour is the cornerstone of a lot of Chinese food and is incredibly authentic. Sweet and sour pork is as Cantonese as it gets. With regards to Indian cuisine, while some dishes like chicken tikka were invented in England (some say Scotland), Rogan Josh is an authentic Kashmiri dish from Persia - there is nothing British about it apart from its popularity there. The problem lies in how it is prepared. More often than not it isn't prepared in smoking hot oil, which is the "josh" part of Rogan Josh. Don't be fooled into believing the Brits when they lay claim to certain dishes - they're simply popular there, that is all...
 
DJ... said:
I know the owner is looking to expand. He's currently going through the process of having his nutritional values analysed and standardising supply, which bodes well if he can manage to fund it properly. I hope for his sake he comes right because Mexican food is delicious and far healthier than most other takeaways. Apart from their deep-fried burrito...:D
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Going through today to buy some burrito's and nacho's from the family from the Randburg place. Will report back.
 
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