Welcome to MexiLondon!
MexiLondon is a repository for all mexican and tex-mex food lovers, supported by a mailing list. The site originated from Phil Gyford's blog about a lack of decent mexican food in London a few years ago. The comments section of the blog became a forum for the small mexican food loving community in London to swap discoveries and to share recommendations. It seemed like there were enough people interested to warrant something a bit more formalised, so the mailing list and this website have been created to make it easier for us to all communicate - as well as keeping an up-to-date list of mexican places in London.
The Problem: decent mexican food has been scarce! Until recently, your only options for good, wholesome, tasty mexican or tex-mex food has been the mass market chains, like Chiquitos, or the 'bierkeller' types where booze is more important that the food...e.g. Break for the Border. Where could you go to find a decent burrito (not fried!) and not have to deal with a hen night downing pitchers of Sol??! It has been a problem.
The Good News: there have been new places popping up in the past couple of years and there are decent places to be found - but they tend not to get listed in the mainstream directories. So, MexiLondon has been born.
What You Can Do: Read the site, join the mailing list or mail me directly and share your secrets and experiences with all of us :)
Best,
Nick
p.s. The BEST southwestern tex-mex used to be a place called Zuni Southwestern in Tufnell Park on Fortess Road. Glynis, if you're reading this - PLEASE COME BACK!!! We all miss you and your food too much! Her duck tacos were the stuff of legend, and her chicken burritos were perfection. Last thing I heard she'd moved back to Pasadena because the landlords had upped the rent to unreasonable levels :(
UPDATE: Glynis Higgins - if by any wild chance you ever do read this, please get in contact and share with me and Deb your duck taco recipe I'm serious..!! My absolute favourite in the entire world and I can't find one anywhere...but if I had the recipe I'm sure Deb could nail it. Hopefully this little message in a Google bottle will find you...