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ELC Expands to NYC

by Wolf Klinker on September 17, 2008

Santa Barbara, home to ELC's founding office, is a place that I have many connections to. In Santa Barbara my father was raised, my grandmother resides, I completed my college degree, I've worked for ELC (twice), I've had many good days of surfing, and I've easily eaten over one metric ton of Mexican food. Why Mexican food? Well, for a few reasons:

1. Mexico is close to California.
2. It's usually really cheap, which means you can get a lot for a little.
3. It's simple (a little onion, cilantro, and meat is all you need).
4. It's greasy.
5. It's everywhere.
6. It's good almost everywhere.

Why am I going on and on about Mexican food when the title of this post is "ELC Expands to NYC"? Because part of this expansion in NYC includes me and I need food to survive (lots of it, ask anyone who knows me). And if I'm going to be eating food, I like to eat well, and part of that requires a steady diet of Mexican food. Which takes me back to my list. Look at #1 again. "Mexico is close to California." Mexico is not close to NYC. Because of this I've embarked on a journey to find resources detailing quality Mexican food and, subsequently, testing my findings.

What I've found is one blog dedicated to tacos in NYC, lost taco, written by a Californian in the same situation I have found myself. I would recommend this to anyone coming to NYC and in need of some quality Mexican food.

My firsthand research has led me to Mexico 2000 Grocery and Taco Santana. Both of these places are in Brooklyn and right around the corner from each other, so you can splurge and get 3 tacos at each, sampling their menus while having a nice sized lunch.

For others out there looking to do a little food research on their own, I have found Yelp and Chowhound to be indispensable tools for finding great food in any city. And I'll be sure to keep you updated of my food travels throughout NYC on this blog.

Comments

Cary at 2:42 PM on September 18 2008

Awesome.

Zeke Sikelianos at 1:25 PM on September 19 2008

Check out the UrbanSpoon iPhone app. The site’s not so great but the app is: http://www.urbanspoon.com/c/69/Santa-Barbara-restaurants.html

Wolf at 5:37 PM on September 19 2008

UrbanSpoon is pretty cool. What I really want is an iPhone app that ties into Yelp, or some other good, community rated/reviewed restaurant site, which geolocates where I am using the phone, allows me to select the radius of distance from where I am, preferably starting pretty small (<0>

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