Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
www.axios.com
The go-to favorite cuisine of Americans used to be Italian, but increasingly it's Latin American and Tex-Mex food like tacos, quesadillas and birrias — with Asian food next on the horizon, per Datassential, a restaurant-menu consultancy.
Why it matters: The dramatic rise in the U.S. Latino population is reshaping the national palate — and sending restaurant operators south of the border (or thereabouts) to freshen up their menus.
Driving the news: An analysis of the 4,500 new menu items released at major restaurant chains last year found that Americans are craving cheesy, spicy foods with Latin-inspired ingredients and preparations.
What they're saying: "When we work with [restaurant] clients, if they're going to ask about what flavors to put on the menu, it's probably going to be Latin," says Mike Kostyo, the "trendologist" at Datassential who analyzed 2022's menus.
- The 10 fastest-growing items on U.S. menus include birria (a Mexican meat stew), chicken taco salad, and dishes made with Tajín, a seasoning of chile peppers, lime and sea salt.
- The #1 menu addition? Ranch Water, a summery cocktail of tequila, lime and Topo Chico sparkling water, per Datassential.
- Tequila is poised to overtake vodka as the country's top-selling spirit, while margaritas have become the most popular cocktail.
- "And if it's not that, it's probably going to be Asian."
The wife has perfected flat enchiladas with Mexican rice and beans. I call it Mexican Casserole.It's all good, but better to cook your own food at home.
Heretic! Your blasphemies will be addressed in the new order! Hail Queso!LOL....I don't know which one is more low-rent. Then again Mexicans have been eating bugs-n-brains for a long time.
Evidently unkatore disagrees. Disagreeing with the Wife is...unhealthy.The wife has perfected flat enchiladas with Mexican rice and beans. I call it Mexican Casserole.
We like to alternate with that or Fajitas I grill up.
It makes the tumble-weaves sparkle in the sun.This reflects the large influx of Mexicans and others from the south coming into our nation. Instead of Burger King wrappers on the side of the road we are now seeing aluminum foil.
It makes the tumble-weaves sparkle in the sun.
So true.....Lee Ho Fook's beef chow mein is the bomb.I'm shielded from any criticism by my own name so this is my opinion:
Mexican food is good, tasty, perfectly OK but I will never understand America's obsession with it because nobody in the whole world can beat these guys' food:
