Not many mexican restaurants!
Luigi
(specially outside the latin areas)?
Regards,
Luis
Hownow
<nosp...@please.com> wrote:
Canada, traditionally, has not been a destination for Mexican
immigrants, the folk who usually open and originally patronize
authentic cuisines.
The southwestern US -- and even California -- are not particularly hot
destinations for eastern Canadian winter vacationers.
And, of course, the first popular "Mexican" restaurants here (the
Peasants Larder comes to mind and then a couple of chain operations)
were not operated by Mexicans and really pushed cheap, cheerful and
roughly spiced dishes. Once a cuisine is labelled "cheap" it's
difficult to upgrade it to where the the Canadian-reared public will
acept higher prices necessary for costler ingredients. Chinese, Indian
and Hungarian also come to mind.
I remember a woman who kept trying (can't remember her last name but
the first was Cathy) and she opened various little upscale Mexican
spots with little and no success. She is a Canadian who had travelled
extensively in Mexico and really knnew how to cook ... but too many
folk expected refried beans and lots of cheap cheese.
- hm
Hownow
<theh...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
Oh yes ... and I forgot.
Ontario high schools taught latin and French while American schools
were teaching Spanish.
We are as comfortable with French and Italian (our fist major immigrant
group) as the Americans are with Spanish ... or as Dubya (while in
Quebec) labelled the language south of the Texas border: Mexican.
- hm
Brian and Carol Richardson
are wishing we could find real Mexican food here at home. There was a fairly
authentic (I believe) Mexican restaurant in Ajax for several years called Dona y
Miguel's, but unfortunately they disappeared a few years ago, and we have often
wondered since if they ever opened anywhere else around the GTA.
Carol
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The owners of dona y miguels left for family I believe. They had grandkids. Also those owners owned penn center , alumni bar and little lou's.