Tex Mex or Mexican recommendations

[akondra]

I am off to Vegas and I want the best tex-mex or mexican food available. All advice appreciated ....and any other interesting ethnic food would be appreciated

[cmbeetle]

If you have $$$ to spend, Border Grill has great food at the higher end of the spectrum.

[leopon]

H,
newbie here.
This place has very good reputation for good mexican food. They share their kitchen with a 24 hour bar so if at 3am if you feel like having some mexican food (limited menu). You can go there. Oh forgot to mention, they have great margaritas.
They are actually on Martin Luther King

QUE MAS Mexican Cafe

1435 W. Craig Rd.
Ste. D
North Las Vegas, NV 89032
Phone: [phone]

[mucho gordo]

My son took me to a Mexican supermarket where they make everything fresh. Maybe someone here can tell me the name of it. I had the best al pastor and tripas I've eaten in a long time.

[Dave Feldman]

My guess is that your son took you to Mariana's or Cardenas -- both of them have multiple locations, though.

[mucho gordo]

Thanks, Dave. I believe it was Cardenas.

[Eric]

Viva Mercados for Mexican. Rincon de Buenos Aires for Argentinian.

[lv1964]

I'll agree with Viva Mercado's. My family and i have been going Viva's since at least the 80s.

I like the fact that the menu is not limited to beans and rice mexican, but a lot of different styles
http://www.vivamercadoslv.com/

It also has a selection of 12 kinds of salsas with heat ratings from 1 to 10.

[rasputina]

I third Viva Mercado's

[shamu613]

For good TexMex I second Cafe Don Juan.

For good Mexican...
Los Molcajetes
1553 N Eastern Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89101
[phone]

Border Grill at Mandalay Bay Hotel.

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

Casa Don Juan on Main
I would skip Tacos El Gordo
El Jeffe is good
There are a ton of Mexivan restaurants in town, as well as trailers/street vendors. One I want to try is on the corner of Bonanza, and LV Blvd. They always have a line,and the adobada looks good from the street. We also have a lot of other Latin American countries represented.

What do you consider bad/good Mexican? Anything in particular that you are looking to try?

[rasputina]

El Jeffe is good!

[Philber]

A strong second on Mundo if you want up scale dining at a reasonable price. If you want to try a "hole in the wall" then I would recommend Los Molcajetes located at Eastern and Owens. There are several threads on this board and plenty of Yelp reviews. They do not have a full liquor license so you are limited to beer and wine. The combination Molcajete is very good!

As I recall Westie posted some pictures from Los Molcajetes...

[HaroldandMaude]

Another vote for Mundo! Especially Happy Hour at the bar.

www.mundolasvegas.com

[rednyellow]

Vegas doesn't have any good traditional mexican food. Mundo has fantastic modern latin food. I love it there. Tacos Gordo, Tacos Mexico and a few other places around town offer decent tacos but not as good as a many other places in L.A. For Tex Mex not too many choices and none I've found worth recommending.