{"id":17107,"date":"2017-05-18T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=17107"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:31:30","slug":"taqueria-las-cumbres-review-crystal-lake-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17107","title":{"rendered":"Taqueria Las Cumbres Review, Crystal Lake, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Taqueria<\/a>I rarely go out for Mexican food in the US for the same reason I rarely seek out Chinese cuisine.<\/p>\n

Pretty sure I’ll be disappointed by either, as having lived and traveled so extensively, just have become a fan of the “Americanized” version of these two foods.<\/p>\n

But once and awhile, you run into a mom and pop, hole in the wall, mini-eatery where you can enjoy the most authentic dishes (as well as the aforementioned Americanized ones), and\u00a0Taqueria Las Cumbres<\/a> in Crystal Lake, is one such experience.<\/p>\n

This is a very small restaurant (in terms of seating) but also seems to do a very brisk take-out business. \u00a0It’s parked next to a Mexican style bakery on one of the main streets of downtown Crystal Lake, IL, a fairly white distant suburb of Chicago. Latino population has been growing over the last decade, and is currently estimated at about 12 % so there’s a market for “authentic.”<\/p>\n

I was really happy with my meal, even tho is was a gringo-centric burrito. It was\/they are huge tho, and I could only finish half of it at the restaurant.<\/p>\n

I also enjoyed Mexican style corn-on-the cob, which is lathered with a mayo-cheese-chili pepper mix.<\/p>\n

Complimentary chips and salsa for starters, and I’m confident both are made in house.<\/p>\n

Tasty. Great value. Authentic dishes. \u00a0Taqueria Las Cumbres<\/p>\n

The menu is reproduced below, and is also online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I rarely go out for Mexican food in the US for the same reason I rarely seek out Chinese cuisine. Pretty sure I’ll be disappointed by either, as having lived and traveled so extensively, just have become a fan of the “Americanized” version of these two foods. But once and awhile, you run into a… Continue reading Taqueria Las Cumbres Review, Crystal Lake, IL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[2258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}