Decent Tex Mex CS at WDW??

[shaycamp21]

We leave in 11 days (woohoo!! ) and I am trying to finalize most of our CS meals or at least narrow them down. Is it possible to get decent Tex Mex CS anywhere or is this just like pizza--to be avoided at WDW. I have not read any good reviews about Cantina De San Angel but what about El Pirata Y El Perico? I am not expecting anything authentic actually something that my DD's could enjoy (they actually like Taco Bell). Something edible and failry tasty wouldn't hurt. Any thoughts?

Thanks
Shay

 

[Texian@WDW]

Being from Texas I can honestly tell you No! San Angel is decent though. If they like Taco Bell, they might like it. We usually end up eating Mexican food at some time during our trips just because we eat it about 3 or 4 times a week here at home and it's usually San Angel or the Cantina outside the restaurant. CSR might have decent Mexican food, but not authentic Tex-Mex.

 

[swilshire]

We enjoy the tex-mex selections at the Pepper Market at the Coronado Springs Resort. They are much better than Taco Bell, however, so the kids might not like them. DS17 and I have tried a variety of things there. We usually share because the portions are quite large.

Sheila

 

[aubriee]

Living in Texas all my life and growing up eating Tex-Mex several times a week, I can tell you to RUN, don't walk, away from either of the places in Epcot (San Angel Inn or the Cantina). We were there this past January and was craving Mexican food. We tried San Angel Inn first and literally left our food our plates to go eat somewhere else. While my son and I were pushing our food around on our plates, it was my 8 y/o GD who finally had the guts to say, 'This is not Mexican food. It's yucky! Can we go somewhere else, I'm starving'. Later we tried the Cantina, expecting it to be about like a Taco Bell, but again threw our food away and walked over the American pavillion for a hamburger.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Cantina is a step below Taco Bell. Ick.

I haven't found anything good there yet, but I usually just steer clear of anything mexican anyways at Disney to avoid our Cantina experience again =)

 

[erinch]

There's a Taco Bell in Goodings Plaza

 

[Lizzybee]

I don't know about "tex" but I lived in Mexico and there is no "Mex" in the Cantina de San Angel...bland and Americanized. Flour tortillas??????

 

[Texian@WDW]

If you really start to crave Tex-Mex, I would ask a local - like a cab driver about a good restaurant outside WDW or tell a CM you need a good place to go on your way to the airport.

 

[stinkerbelle]

I have not read any good reviews about Cantina De San Angel but what about El Pirata Y El Perico? I am not expecting anything authentic actually something that my DD's could enjoy (they actually like Taco Bell).

I think Pirata Y El Perico is closer to Taco bell...DH and I LOVE it and would eat there every time we went to MK...only one problem...the DANG PLACE IS NEVER OPEN WHEN WE GO!!!

heheheh

I HATED the food at the San Angel Cantina...blech...I CRIED through that "meal" it was so gross. (and - heck - I worked at Taco Bell during my teens...I pretty much had an iron stomach for the stuff.)

hmmmm...think I'll make mexican stuffed peppers for dinner tonight! hehehe

 

[Mymatisse]

I really enjoyed the food at San Angel! This is not "Tex-Mex," so if that's what you are looking for you won't find it. It was enjoyable though, and I even liked the Cantina!

 

[profdsny]

I really wish they would do a good Tex-Mex place there. There certainly is a need, and a market, for one.

 

[DVCJEN]

No good Tex Mex anywhere in the world. Period. Wish it wasn't the case but it really is.