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11 Sep, 2009

A Taste of Mexico

Posted by: peter in: Food Events

Taste of MexicoI’m in two minds about Mexican food. Yes, it’s lovely, but my experience of it has been a bit limited: corn bread, beans, and chilli. I suspect that I’ve been eating Tex-Mex rather than the real thing; enchilladas are not authentic Mexican.

So I’d be interested in the Taste of Mexico event, a food festival featuring renowned Mexican chef Margarita Carrillo, owner of Don Emiliano’s in Los Cabos, voted as the best restaurant in Baja, California, and member of the Slow Food Movement. The event begins today and runs until Thursday September 17 at the Restaurant Uisceand the Stil Bar at the Hilton Dublin (ooh la la!), around Charlemont. As well as Mexican food, there’ll be a chance to try out Mexican beers, wines, and tequilla.

For more information on this Festival contact Pedro Cisneros at the Embassy of Mexico on 016673105, or click here.

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5 Responses to "A Taste of Mexico"

1 | Bill

September 11th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

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Cornbread, beans and chili are not even TexMex. Cornbread is American (two varieties, sweet northern and savory southern). Chili is also American and there are many varieties: Texas red, Cincinnati-style, Louisville-style, chile verde, etc.

Most enchiladas in restaurants are of the TexMex variety, but enchiladas themselves are very Mexican. A typical Mexican preparation would involve corn tortillas dipped in a chile sauce and sprinkled with queso fresco cheese.

2 | Peter

September 11th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

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Hi Bill. I do need some Mexican tips, cheers. By chili I mean the hot spicy peppers and by cornbread I meant tortilla. Clearly, I need to get over to this festival pronto! :)

3 | Bill

September 11th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

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Ah, well that makes more sense! :) I’ve looked at the menu and it seems very authentic. I lived in Austin, TX for nine years before moving to Dublin and really miss both the Mex and TexMex food.

4 | Siobhan

September 15th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

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Went to this today and was quite looking forward to it as I love Mexican food – we went for the lunch menu and were all pretty disappointed. Portions were small, the food wasn’t of great quality and my enchiladas weren’t actually enchiladas – 2 of our group have actually been to Mexico a few times so do have some idea of what the food is like. Overall it wasn’t anything to rave about.

5 | Kathy

September 17th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

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I agree with Siobhan, very disappointing food, and the staff at the Hilton nearly drove us crazy asking if everything was all right! Obviously just a promotional thing for them.

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