Mexican Restaurants

We enjoy eating Mexican food. I guess, technically, American-Mex food. We frequent these restaurants often. With our recent move to Texas, we were especially excited to try some new Tex-Mex places. Although the restaurants have been delicious, we must admit that nothing has quite compared to one place that we have eaten. Granted, a lot of our judgement is based upon the chips and salsa-we tend to be salsa connoisseurs. And, of course, the cheese dip. If we don't like the salsa, we don't like the place! And, if they don't have cheese dip, they are out! Quite to our surprise, one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, is still the Monte Alban in my home town in Murphy. We loved the salsa and the cheese dip there, and they had great fajitas, and delicious southern style sweet tea. The next best thing we found with our move to Birmingham was the Iguana Grill. They served TWO types of salsa and had a queso blanco, but it just wasn't as good as Monte Alban. Much to our chagrin the Mexican restaurants here in Texas are lacking in both the salsa and queso blanco departments. We haven't found a place yet that serves plain queso blanco! It's certainly not all bad though. We have definitely found that the fresh tortillas are amazing!! The fajitas are also equally delicious with even bigger portions.

Our hunt for our new favorite Mexican Restaurant coincides with our hunting for a new church. We typically go to church, then out to eat. :-) So, our quest will continue in both venues!

Worth noting: Over Fourth of July, my cousin's husband, David, made an amazing corn, cilantro, chiles dish for which I really want the recipe. So, please post...thanks!!