 no this place is good mexican and i'm just like no it's not it's not there's no good mexican food in new york come for me Pedro Pascal is wrong he was a a funny stuff that he said and i don't i respect the guy but i think he's wrong this time mr. Pascal you probably haven't been to the city in a while and there's always been great mexican food in queens but even Manhattan has some gems now so in our opinion here are some places you should visit next time you come to new york oh that's good bro hey you guys heard what Pedro Pascal said about mexican food in new york city listen i love the mexican food in LA but new york's got its own thing going on so we're starting off at los tacos number one listen here at los tacos number one they do tijuana style tacos but it's so good they got the system down pat i'm gonna give them this ticket and then i'm gonna get to choose at the moment up whether i walk corn or flour tortilla they make both in-house so i'm gonna get both that's everything okay so steak taco so chicken taco so pork what kind of pork mula corn yes but the mula can i get it flour yes some horchata while we're waiting y'all i'm here with my friend jose jose you're Ecuadorian but you've been to mexico city before does this feel like mexico city mate i feel like i'm a little i'm in mexico right now i feel like i'm there is there a certain part of mexico you think that you're in right now oh mexico city okay all right yo you got the tamarindo i need a good you gotta get the diet coke i know that's the mexican coke obviously has the real sugar but you know we like dc out here guys this is the only taco spot in new york city that my friends visiting from la you know taco enthusiasts have said that it's also really good and this is their favorite taco spot in new york city listen they make everything fresh look at this flour tortilla it's so thin it's almost see through it's stretchy and then you got the corn right here show that off guys i know sometimes people think like the pre-made corn ones it's like a little dry these more fire so cheers los tacos number one we gotta make it go very good yo while a little spice they have these little fried chili peppers i do that too look how stretchy that tortilla is man you can see through it it almost feels like one of those peaking duck wraps i think he's gonna visit los tacos and we uh reevaluate what he said it's crazy because they named it los tacos number one but they lived up to it like how often do you see that when a brand is like yo we're number one and then it turns out to be number one but they don't just have tacos at los tacos they have a mula they have quesadillas they have some off the menu items this is a mula it's a corn tortilla with like cheese on both sides and i guess i'm gonna eat it like a sandwich and the tortilla is the bun let's go so often i'll get a taco that's like double wrap with the tortilla and it's like too thick but this is perfect man well we got travel size small i'm gonna try it with travel size baby let me know if we should release this as a product mula sandwich with smiley smiley goes best on the auto bottom but honestly the auto bottom doesn't even need anything i'm gonna be honest i'm not gonna i don't know how you guys feel about cactus tacos no bow i'm not even a huge fan but i always get it here because i gotta get my veggies in it so going off what Pedro Pascal said when he said that there was no good mexican food in new york city i think five years ago that was kind of true but nowadays guys there's spots like los tacos number one and all these other spots that we're going to that are delicious this is authentic tijuana style straight from mexico but they did it amazing so you know what i just gotta show you another spot like we said guys on this crawl we've just been staying in a very very small area all these spots are relatively new in the past five six years sometimes one year but uh i wanted to ask you did you hear Pedro Pascal say that there's no good mexican food in new york city you know new york is mainly about like uh now mexican people and a lot of people come from california from chicago from texas and everybody believed they have the really authentic food on those states but i think in new york there is like a very different uh type of mexican people and you can really find different types of mexican food because a lot of the people in new york that are from mexico are from like puebla or like mohawkans right like yeah so it's a lot of Mexico it's a huge country too and every state has different traditions too you know like my culture is churruteka and churruteka is from uh from ayans civilization we based on corn so basically uh new stabilization it didn't meant for tortillas it meant for tamales oh that's why it calls nice tamales so what do you want to say to anybody on the internet who says new york doesn't have authentic mexican food what do you want to say to them well i want to say like uh i mean don't be scared you know come to new york and uh look in the small pub and mom shops and you know they have their really authentic food but uh i mean all you gotta do is just try it yeah just try it guys listen Pedro Pascal just try it like i said guys you don't have to look far every single spot that we went in this video is literally around union square our house and that's like walking distance from each other you are looking at a long admisa torta i got a fried egg in it and uh man i had a great talk with about corn versus nixtamal versus maseca and i just know that you know i understand the criticisms of new york not being authentic but i'm telling you it's delicious and everybody cooking the food is from mexico legitimately listen guys i'm not saying that putting the lettuce in there or the egg in there is like 10 out of 10 the old school way but i'm telling you this is an incredibly good torta all right you guys are you are looking at a mole chicken tamale and they do it the hard way it takes three days to make it guys it is a very complex process he was talking to me about how you know it is difficult to do it on the east coast because you're far from mexico you need to chip in ingredients it's expensive from puebla oaxaca you know obviously there's a more direct pipelines to la so like i said i'm not taking anything away from la mexican food is amazing obviously very vast very expansive i'm just saying there's a lot more stuff in new york than people think hey listen guys they do this to the traditional as tecan style guys shout out to quetzalcoatl i mean i think when it comes to saying whether new york has good mexican food or not i think you have to take an account like all these spots we went to are and they're in lower manhattan they're actually all like biking distance from each other and you got the most authentic tamales in the city which are delicious and fluffy these are the best tamales i've ever had in new york i buy them off the card sometimes these are the best you got some of the best tacos that you've shown and i think that sometimes people are like oh well brooklyn deep brooklyn has this or deep queens has that that's not to discredit it that is still count as part of new york but we all understand that those places are all still pretty far to get to at least takes 25 minutes 20 30 minutes on the train so i'm saying if you don't want to travel that far new york manhattan has really good food especially tiwana style and things like this at factory tabal but what do you guys think is pager Pascal still right does new york still not that have that good of mexican food or is it getting better let me know in the comments down below listen a lot of people think that when it comes to mexican food in new york city that oh we only got gentrified tacos and these nice spots and everything so expensive oh like they don't have good taco trucks wrong wrong pager Pascal you're wrong because birria landia truck is a new york staple started in queens has a location of brooklyn has a truck in manhattan now and this is competitive with la birria taco so i'm gonna go get some they got molitas they got consomme they got uh tostadas i'm gonna get a little bit of everything i'm gonna show you what's up i'm getting uh small consomme can i get a molita can i get a tostada and uh another taco and you know they're doing good business because you can pay with car how can i get the guava boy too i don't know if i'm making a convincing argument to you when i told the other man that you're chillin he didn't like that the mexican chef he was like let's see though all right guys we got our order i spent 24 dollars let's check it out all right so guys to be fair in manhattan this truck has only been around for about a year and a half so but i will say that this probably is consider the best taco truck overall in manhattan so anyways queens there's other ones of course so let me try this molita right here uh-huh oh my gosh look at that look at that with a little crumble cheese on it i mean that looks delicious i mean honestly bro oh my gosh if you don't know what a molita is it's basically like two tortillas but it's grilled with the birria uh consomme sauce you got cheese on both sides i mean it it does have the similar ingredients let's be honest guys but uh it's just a slightly different form and i like it personally because both the tortillas got cheese and it's crispy okay so the owners of birria landia truck are actually from plebla but they're serving tijuana style birria tacos because to be honest i think it's the most consumable for the masses and if you're trying to be successful so i guess if you want to say it's not a hundred percent the most you know from the originators i guess all i have to say is that i guess people are serving really good tijuana style mexican food in new york city this is tostada it ended up being a taco though as i fold it but anyways let's go and look at this beef right there shredded dripping delicious guys now here last but not least a different form of something similar you have the tostada extra crispy crust at the bottom though look at that i'm just gonna tap it tap it and then for this one i'm definitely got a pour a little bit more of these uh oh my gosh i didn't mean to put that much oh look at that beautiful with the purple and the green and the red and white and the bring some hand whites with you hmm black crispy dark oh my gosh all right i would say form factor wise this is the hardest one to eat but taste wise i might put the tostada my favorite i mean listen right across the street from this beer elandia truck there's this really high end mexican restaurant called ixta right around the corner you can see it that's maybe what he's referring to when he says that there's no good mexican food because it's decent food but it's kind of over expensive but here at the beer elandia truck and having lived in la comparing it to the spots in la i feel like it can go heads up with la trucks i mean but you're right that there is still more mexican food in la overall which is logical check out this guava beverage straight from uh san juan del rio mexico but what's also good is this consomang this is all this too is also filled with electrolytes and sodium and warmth oh oh like we said guys pascal may have been right at some point but definitely over the past few years he's wrong we're at joe's tacos they came from guerrero mexico which is a state near puebla and uh let's check it out because they got something to say to paedro pascal what's going on bro hey man south how are you how are you doing man is there is there good mexican food in new york city now yeah of course there is many places there's the browns there's the rooseville uh rooseville avenue there is um brooklyn even here in mahat and you know there is many good stuff a lot of people don't think that though right no they're wrong do you think they maybe used to be right but now they're wrong no maybe like five years ago 10 years ago they they were right but now they're wrong yes exactly i mean probably 10 years 10 years ago they started to to to do some mexican style but you know we tried to bring everything from california from mexico the spices the tryouts you know so at this point 10 years later yeah we got pretty good so what do you want to say to paedro pascal i mean uh uh it was a funny stuff that he said and i don't i respect the guy but i think he's wrong this time he's wrong guys listen guys they're from guerrero mexico joe's tacos we're about to get in the kitchen what are we cooking over here chef that is the carne asada the tacos that chorizo we do bamanon and that is al pastor and you grill in the pineapple chunks yeah of course it has it you know has to be like that what is different between grilling the pineapples in with it and then just slicing and putting it on top later because yeah they got they got combined it and got the flavor of course you know because he's grilling at the same time uh you know of course that you know gets together all the flavor in the same spot and has to be you real pineapple i got the pineapple right here guys oh my goodness man tell us what we're looking at you got al pastor the chorizo and you got carne asada thank you man hell yeah onions hey listen guys thank you thank you thank you no thank you guys this is got this is all you need right now guys i forgot something yes you got a cara in the sealed boba cups hell yeah we're here at joe's taco straight out of guerrero man i'm telling you you can feel something different you know in Cantonese we have this thing called walk hey i'm telling you this got the truck hey this in the sense that it just got the fire that you would just see on a in a cvs parking lot man that is a la style taco oh my goodness you can see the chorizo right here everything's cooked perfectly everything's done super authentically i can't believe we're on 14th street in union square right now i'm telling you Pedro Pascal you can just come to union square one of the most americanized parts of manhattan it's still fun good tacos ted is dying you can see the al pastor was cooked with the pineapple the pineapple is charred i'm telling you these are kicking in a way that los tacos number one doesn't even kick guys oh i went with everything on the al pastor listen guys culture changes society changes and the quality of Mexican food in new york city changes very quickly when you guys the spices here are on another level i'm just saying your friend stacy she might not be able to handle it but i like it listen guys you are looking at a black and shrimp taco uh guerrero is a state of mexico that has inland as well as a coastline along the water so i'm super excited to try this guys camarones i'm telling you guys that's not a san diego bar hot shrimp taco like the bumble just had that's what it's from mexico coastline camarones so this Pedro need to come here Pedro Pascal next time he's in new york Pedro i'm calling you out bro guys between the two my favorite is the al pastor or autobot i think they're very similar i actually don't know the difference but i also have a horchata here so i'm about to compare this to the one at los tacos number one this is the same combo i want to be clear here this has more spices more salt and more seasoning but for me guys when they give you two tortillas i only eat one that's my secret trying the horchata oh that's the tough one who's horchata was better it's pretty good though i like it it comes in a boat cup guys what i'm trying to say is that there's certain aspects of each spot that i think are better than the others but overall Pedro Pascal is a little outdated i'm not saying he was he wasn't wrong for when he went to new york or the places he tried but i'm saying if you really go dig you can find some really good Manhattan taco spots things that satisfy the authentic truck palette that you're looking for that earthy spicy tones or you want that more you know cleaned up style to you want a style or you can get like the gringo style and the Tex-Mex listen have it all homemade green sauce right here homemade verde guys i had to try the shrimp taco with smile on it our very own sauce let's check it out i think it's gonna go really well with this cream sauce that they have on it mmm it goes great with the creamy chipotle wow i like that a lot all right you guys somersaults whole mission was to bring california style burritos to new york city you could either get a mission style which is rice and beans or you get a california style which is a little bit more san diego baja with the french fries i got a crispy fish burrito with the french fries california style i got a double shrimp a double fish carne asada i'm telling you guys you know i was skeptical of somersault too i thought it was going to be a little touristy but it's valid as you guys may know there are so many different genres of mexican food for example some people want cdmx some people want tijuana other people want san diego and that's what in 2019 two californians try to do with somersault here we guys we're looking at a san diego style burrito guys with the guac in it ah look at that that's crispy fish fresh out of the fryer san diego style with the flour tortilla um they did change recently from french fries to tater tots as the carb in the california san diego baja style so they might lose points for that but let's see how it tastes listen guys it tastes 90 percent like a san diego burrito from pacific beach i'm telling you and considering that we're in manhattan right now and i didn't have to go to brooklyn i didn't have to go to queens shout out to those spots i know it's even more authentic over there but i'm telling you some people in manhattan they just want baja style from san diego and this is doing a good job now do i think the pascal was actually referring to san diego style surf and turf burritos with like french fries in them no but it goes to show you that listen lost tacos number one wasn't within walking distance of here i'm talking about this is like all around union square 14th street let's try the carne asada literally guys i would think that i was in la or san diego right now and like i said this just opened up in 2019 so this is a very very recent advent in new york listen guys i'm not saying i value gringo mexican food or san diego mexican food over like cdmx taloon teowana style but i'm just saying if you like gringo food from california this is a very very good baja version of it and it's all around the city now adobo shrimp baja san diego style i know what you're thinking hey guys why would somersault have some really good tacos but listen look at that shrimp you can see by the seasoning and all those darkened chilies in there that there's like that deep kind of like earthy tone flavoring that is in the shrimp that you maybe wouldn't expect that you'd get from a spot like somersault so honestly i thought they did this blackened adobo shrimp dish really really well this is the best thing here you guys got to get this this one right here look look at the flavor all right one of our last spots in this video is miclon in the lower east side just to show you how mexican food is prevalent throughout manhattan and miclon i mean this spot's pretty traditional miclon is referring to the obviously the aztec and mythology of kind of like their afterlife but anyways i'm not gonna say anything more let's go get some food do you know this guy Pedro pascal actor he's famous like actor okay he said this there's no good mexican food so he's wrong he's wrong they said hey you guys heard it first put the chance later on he said Pedro pascal is wrong wrong all right who is flying out then this this is the premier item guys this is a pollo chicken mole burrito and i'm very very excited authentic chicken mole all right thank you thank you gracias all right here on miclon i got the chicken mole burrito i got flour tortillas right here i got poblano rajas con crema let's take a look at this this is a dish i've never actually chosen to get but i just feel like eating poblano peppers is very authentic not every spot is going to serve that dish so shout out to miclon of course you have your guac here but let me cut open this burrito guys have you ever had a chicken mole burrito that is the question take a look at that mr pascal senor pascal this is just at a spot down the block from where i live and look how good it is look at the range of dishes you can get all right i'm gonna take a bite chicken mole burrito oh that's good bro sweet earthy nutty but mixed in with the cheese i mean look at this with a little bit of verde sauce right there i think mole especially in new york city is a trending dish and most of the times i've had it it's a chicken leg with mole sauce all over it but i actually think that the mole burrito might be the most accessible best way for a beginner to eat mole i think it's delicious definitely must try this all right guys moving on to the appetizer that i'm eating second but this is rajas kankrema these are poblano peppers with mushrooms and cream and i'm gonna put it oh and cheese sorry oh my gosh look at this look at this color here let me just put it on this tortilla right here bang bang bang that looks incredible incredible guys listen accessible dishes dishes you've never had before but they're not too crazy as these dishes are hidden let me tell you this all right mclan is doing some things and it seems like a mexican restaurant that you've been to before but they definitely got some dishes that you haven't had before so check it out guys mole burrito rajas kankrema delicious great appetizers great food man i'm i'm so glad i'm filming here right now honestly and last but not least we got some fish tacos with pico mango so it's kind of like mango that's been uh saladized like pico de gallo anyways guys honestly food here is not that expensive just when you think that oh these are Manhattan prices everything's getting gentrified the burrito was $14 the rajas kankrema was uh rajas kankrema was $15 and these you know not too much so you're getting high quality food in lower Manhattan that's authentic look at how spicy that fish is look at that slice of fish let's get into it mr pascal to your credit mclan's only been around for a couple years but you gotta come back to new york bro guys it's 2024 especially during the you know pandemic so many people spent time in mexico city to loom so these concepts are coming back and that's actually where the controversy around this spot el churro comes from because some people say they copied chuania el moro in mexico city but let me tell you this man regardless they are making the churros fresh they got a bunch of dips this is the s'mores one they toasted it on top and i'm just telling you that you didn't get fresh churros listen guys nobody said that churros were the most macro friendly food out there but i'm telling you this probably is very similar because they tried to make it similar controversial or not to mexico city so like i said the authenticity is here by the way i know that the s'mores flavor is not that authentic but they still want to appeal to the american market of course but um yeah like we said man there's some cool concepts out here and they just opened up