Pinto Beans, Nottinghamshire, or Derbyshire (dried not canned)

I have found green chiles in tescos but they are in oil and really not that nice or comparable.

Decent Mexican food is the thing I miss most from the US, hands down.

yes me too  :\\\'(

Decent Mexican food is the thing I miss most from the US, hands down.

word.

We found a pretty decent restaurant at the Trafford Centre called Barburrito's

Kinda like a Subway..where they make fresh Burrito's..It was very good and very fresh...

have 3 different kinds of salsa and also a salsa verde...

It was a hard decision between this place and Nando's......

Barburrito is a mini-chain, the TC one is the second after one in Piccadilly Gardens.  The foods the same but the Piccadilly restaurant is nicer - they also do a loyalty card a la subway.

The same people also run a take-away called Globe in West Didsbury, which although not quite as nice is about he only Mexican take-away in South Manchester.

Oh, I'd love to share some recipes. I'm looking through the different Mexican food items easily found in the UK and I will work off of what I see available. I can modify some items and make them very easy to prepare too. I'll start a new thread in a few hours.

Oh, I'd love to share some recipes. I'm looking through the different Mexican food items easily found in the UK and I will work off of what I see available. I can modify some items and make them very easy to prepare too. I'll start a new thread in a few hours.

Thank you! 

Oh, I'd love to share some recipes. I'm looking through the different Mexican food items easily found in the UK and I will work off of what I see available. I can modify some items and make them very easy to prepare too. I'll start a new thread in a few hours.

Excellent! I'm still in the US, but am taking the next year to learn to cook things I can't get, or are more difficult to find, in the UK. 

Oh, I'd love to share some recipes. I'm looking through the different Mexican food items easily found in the UK and I will work off of what I see available. I can modify some items and make them very easy to prepare too. I'll start a new thread in a few hours.

You are my new best friend!

Elynor, have you been to St George's Market and the Mexican food booth there? (I can't remember if we discussed it before)

Oh, I'd love to share some recipes. I'm looking through the different Mexican food items easily found in the UK and I will work off of what I see available. I can modify some items and make them very easy to prepare too. I'll start a new thread in a few hours.

Yay!  Yay!  And again Yay!   

I've been to one (count 'em - one) Mexican restaurant in the three years we've lived in the UK.  And it wasn't too good.  I don't know how many ingredients I can come up with (or find substitutes for) in our little town, but I'm willing to try making it myself.

Thank you!  I'll look out for the thread!

Well, I've started the new thread and  began by putting  recipes for Mexican rice, beans, and salsa on the board. I hope you enjoy, and as I've stated on that thread, I'll be happy to add recipes as requested for whatever Mexican food you crave, that I know how to make. Even if I don't, my MIL does, so I will still post them for you. Btw, my MIL is from central Mexico, and the recipes I post will reflect food from that region. So, as we say, 'come con gusto', and enjoy.

Elynor, have you been to St George's Market and the Mexican food booth there? (I can't remember if we discussed it before)

Yes, I have, a couple of times. It's good, but not anywhere close to the New Mexican food that I really miss.

We tried the new burrito place, Boojum, last week. It's sort of Chipotle-style, where they make your burritos to order in front of you. Pretty good stuff--everything is homemade, including the hot sauce--but again, not exactly the sort of thing that I'm craving.

To be honest, I couldn't really get what I considered great Mexican food on the East Coast, either.

Have you been to Springsteens (think that is what it is called) on Botanic?  For Americanish stuff it's not bad, and big portions. (This is, if it is still open).

The St Georges Mexican is good for a stop gap, or getting their salsa & fresh chips, but yeah, it's not New Mexican style at all. He may do special orders though, you arrange something one week and he might do it the next? I agree about East Coast Mexican.

No, haven't been to Springsteen's. The one on Botanic is still there, and there's another on Lisburn Road practically next door to me.

For some reason I don't manage to get down to St George's very often. Maybe partly because I just don't like it that much--it's so heavy on the prepared food vendors. I miss the farmer's market in Rochester where they actually had real farmers.

On the subject of East Coast Mexican, when we lived in Maryland we discovered a place in Northern VA that claimed to have New Mexican food. It was so bad it was funny, but we still went a couple of times just for the sake of nostalgia!

Any place you can get Corona in a bucket is alright with me. Give the Lisburn Rd one a try sometime.

I never made it down to St Geogres that often either - enjoyed it when I did go, though, esp with the kids. Never bought much! There's a market in the town where I live now but I haven't made it yet.

When I lived in New York I thought finding Mexican food would be easy but the only places were either high end (which was admittedly very good but very expensive!) or not very authentic. Maybe I was going to the wrong places but when you are from California/Southwest it's a bit of a culture shock to find the absence of Mexican influence in the rest of the states!