Dumb question maybe, but I'm going to RP in a couple of weeks and with a 3 year old and two other kids we don't really like to eat out too much because it can be a bit of a hassle but I want to grill up some carne. We're staying at playa bonita RV, are there any butcher shops around there that you might be able to point me to? Preferably in walking distance if there are any.
AZ Miguel I disagree with you very much. Sonoran beef is the finest you can buy. It is grown without the use of growth hormones and it is super lean and tasty. I eat a lot of Carne and we have many good butchers to choose from here. I really dont like your "you'll know what animal it came from" comment.
BenDog, there is a market called Las Palmas on Ave Constitucion' 2 blocks North of Benito Juarez that has exactly what you will want. As well if you prefer to not driver you could catch a cab at the RV park and tell them to take you to Cedasa on Melchor Ocampo down the street from Botica Lux. It is just awesome.
Enjoy your trip and enjoy the best beef money can buy right here in Sonora! AJUA! life is good!
I'm gonna go with Russ on this one. Sonoran beef is some of the best in the world.
Here in the US, there is a small carneceria (Sonora Market) near 48th St. and Southern. I frequent it regularly and nowhere, I do mean nowhere, has better arracherra (ranchera style skirt steaks). All fat trimmed off, they add homemade marinade for you and WOW!!! A few minutes over some mesquite charcoal and you have some of the finest eating tacos outside of Rocky Point! Their pollo is pretty darned good, too.
For American cuts, like rib-eye and NY strips, Costco rules. But for carne asada and ranchera, you cannot go wrong with Sonora Market. Bonus - they make their own tortillas there, too!
I agree with Russ and Stuart also. I go to a carnecerria (butcher) diagonally across intersection from the Telmex office. Meat is fresh cut to order and is the best beef I ever ate. I go there every time I'm in town for Ribeyes and NY strips.
I agree with Mondone the butcher shop is the best but don't go in there expecting to get any pollo last time I was there all they had was beef.. It is the comments like AZMIGUEL said that I have been arguing with people about for years.. Roberto is correct as well the Carne is great at Santa Fe plus they have the pollo for the wife. You will just have to be prepared that the color of the meat is not like the processed crap we get up here in the states.
Russ, Suck it up buttercup, We have the USDA here that has routinely recalled beef for consumer safety unlike that road kill you get in the fly infested carnecerias SOB. This question is like saying you’re in Rocky Point and you’ll be going to Phoenix and you want to find the best place to buy sea food. The carneceria I frequent that also has the best prepared ranchera is located on the south west corner of Baseline and Central.They prepare it when you order it so you know it’s fresh and not use the mix to mask the beef. Processed steak? We’re not talking hot dogs or Mcnuggets here
Why put orange juice and who knows what else on the meat, I never see any taquero's putting anything on beef, just seasoning (mostly coarse salt), all you have to do is buy the cut called diesmillo 1/4" thick some fat so the meat doesn't get dry while cooking it. Putting all that sh#T on beef would be like putting ketchup on your ribeye at the Outback to change the flavor of it. Marinades are good for pork aqnd chicken, but good beef doesn't need it. Diesmillo is about the only cut that the more you grill it the better it tastes, the other cuts dry out or a tough to begin with. I'll use the OJ for my vodka.
Russ, Suck it up buttercup, We have the USDA here that has routinely recalled beef for consumer safety unlike that road kill you get in the fly infested carnecerias SOB. This question is like saying you’re in Rocky Point and you’ll be going to Phoenix and you want to find the best place to buy sea food. The carneceria I frequent that also has the best prepared ranchera is located on the south west corner of Baseline and Central.They prepare it when you order it so you know it’s fresh and not use the mix to mask the beef. Processed steak? We’re not talking hot dogs or Mcnuggets here
Believe what you will!
A snippet of the above referenced article reads " What you need to know:
How do high levels of copper, arsenic, and penicillin get into beef in the first place? This is the unfortunate result of modern day, factory farm growing methods. Cows for years have been raised not on a pasture but rather in close confinement, eating surplus corn instead of grass, thus developing digestive problems that are treated with copious amounts of antibiotics. Add hormones for quick growth, heavy metals in drinking water from nearby factories, pesticide residues from neighboring farms, and you’ve got a symphony of chemicals waiting to be unleashed into the human body with each bite of that T-bone steak.
By the way, Mexico is not the only country finding US beef objectionable. Japan, for the last 7 years has been severely restricting the import of American beef. The reason – fear of mad cow disease as a result of sub-par US feeding methods.
Why wouldn’t the US government put the safety of its citizens as top priority? As usual, you need to follow the money. The way beef is raised today, it can be sold rather cheaply. Consumers are happy to pay less, even if there is a certain risk to their health as a result.
The lobbies representing huge cattle factories make sure that Congress does not impose too many restrictions and inspections which would obviously result in increased “manufacturing” costs. A spokesperson for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said “Beef farmers and ranchers pride themselves on producing a safe and wholesome product, and anything less is unacceptable.” Right."
Why put orange juice and who knows what else on the meat
Because it gives the beef a really great flavor! The Sonora Carneceria asks you whether or not you want "juice" on your ranchera. Unlike Food City (and some other places I've seen), the meat does NOT sit in a tray soaking in the marinade before you buy it. When they bag your order, they pour the marinade on it fresh -- a mix of orange juice, garlic, chile powder, and fresh cut onion. Totally up to you whether you want it or not, but I enjoy the flavor it adds to the meat.
Kind of like "why put mayo or mustard on a bologna sandwich" in my opinion. Just a personal choice!
I'm gonna go with Russ on this one. Sonoran beef is some of the best in the world.
Here in the US, there is a small carneceria (Sonora Market) near 48th St. and Southern. I frequent it regularly and nowhere, I do mean nowhere, has better arracherra (ranchera style skirt steaks). All fat trimmed off, they add homemade marinade for you and WOW!!! A few minutes over some mesquite charcoal and you have some of the finest eating tacos outside of Rocky Point! Their pollo is pretty darned good, too.
For American cuts, like rib-eye and NY strips, Costco rules. But for carne asada and ranchera, you cannot go wrong with Sonora Market. Bonus - they make their own tortillas there, too!
~ ~ ~ For me, anytime I want the ~ ~ ~ "tastest, best" ~ ~ ~ "BEEF" ~ ~ ~ TACOS,
~ ~ ~ There be only one place for me, this side of the Mississipi, ~ ~ ~ that be ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ La Curva, IS "the PLACE" ~ ~ ~ the "MEAT" be very "FRESH" ~ ~ ~ :lol: :lol: :lol: ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ You can get a "taco" w/or without the hide on it, ~ ~ ~ :lol: :lol: :lol: ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ My favorite ~ ~ ~ hands down is the ~ ~ ~ "PAW TACO" ~ ~ ~ :lol: :lol: :lol:
Nobody even mentioned La Curva. Let's leave it (and all your stomach pumping nonsense) out of this thread, okay?
~ ~ ~ Thats NOT nonsense, ~ ~ ~ people here are mentioning diff. places to get meat for tacos, so I thought La Curva was worth talking about, ~ ~ ~ after all they do serve "Carne Asada" , okay ?
La Curva is not a carneceria; it's a restaurant. The carne asada they serve is actually quite good. Good cut of meat with a roasted green chile on top -- the wife's favorite there. But, it's not a place to buy meat to go to cook yourself. That's the difference.
This is where I got my years worth of meat.. bought as a calf and let it walk around the back yard and eat for 6 months then put it in a nice 20x20 pen and fed it only oats with molases some fine alfalfa, and a big 40oz bottle of hard apple cider every day. for 2 months then off to White Tanks Processing to hang for 6 more weeks. and that is how I get my meat in the states BTW the name on the state inspection papers was "Porterhouse" :thumbsup:
Russ, Suck it up buttercup, We have the USDA here that has routinely recalled beef for consumer safety unlike that road kill you get in the fly infested carnecerias SOB. This question is like saying you’re in Rocky Point and you’ll be going to Phoenix and you want to find the best place to buy sea food. The carneceria I frequent that also has the best prepared ranchera is located on the south west corner of Baseline and Central.They prepare it when you order it so you know it’s fresh and not use the mix to mask the beef. Processed steak? We’re not talking hot dogs or Mcnuggets here
Changed my mind...you aren't a jerk, you're a jackass.
Well thanks for the replies, sorry to start an argument. I do like the carne I get here, there is a place over on alma school just south of warner right behind long wongs. It's great, always seems real fresh. But I figured buying it there and bringing it to RP would be like me buying some sand from home depot and bringing it to the beach there. I will hit up some of the spots mentioned on the way in. I'm driving my motorhome but have no tow vehicle so will stop on the way in, I don't drive at all once I get there.
Russ, Suck it up buttercup, We have the USDA here that has routinely recalled beef for consumer safety unlike that road kill you get in the fly infested carnecerias SOB. This question is like saying you’re in Rocky Point and you’ll be going to Phoenix and you want to find the best place to buy sea food. The carneceria I frequent that also has the best prepared ranchera is located on the south west corner of Baseline and Central.They prepare it when you order it so you know it’s fresh and not use the mix to mask the beef. Processed steak? We’re not talking hot dogs or Mcnuggets here
Miguel - Are you talking about Carniceria Nuevo Mexico? If so, the carne used to be great there but now that the guy who ran it Carlos, went back to Venezuela, you can forget about good carne asada there. We bought the meat there all last summer and it was delicious but not anymore. I'm going to try the place on 48th Street and Baseline that Stuart recommended.
I completely disagree w/ azmiguel. The carne in Penasco is two thumbs up. I trust the USDA as much as I trust the FDA. Support the local economy and eat well.
Why put orange juice and who knows what else on the meat, I never see any taquero's putting anything on beef, just seasoning (mostly coarse salt), all you have to do is buy the cut called diesmillo 1/4" thick some fat so the meat doesn't get dry while cooking it. Putting all that sh#T on beef would be like putting ketchup on your ribeye at the Outback to change the flavor of it. Marinades are good for pork aqnd chicken, but good beef doesn't need it. Diesmillo is about the only cut that the more you grill it the better it tastes, the other cuts dry out or a tough to begin with. I'll use the OJ for my vodka.
Its funny that you associate a good steak to a joint like Outback! Dolt.
Its funny that you associate a good steak to a joint like Outback! Dolt.
Hold on Blazer Lips, That is a good steak(not a great steak,just a good steak) I just said good beef doesen't need anyyhing on it. Thanks for your input dingleball's. Martha Stewart in a 93 Blazer.
Watch out, someone might get their panties in a wad and call you a jack ass too.
It wouldn't be the first time, and probably not the last. I didn't say anything about the beef only the marinade, I have had the marinated beef, I just said you dont need it on good beef. I had a T-bone here in Rp last night that was delicious and the best part about the T-bones here is they leave a big part of the loin on it. Then you got these little girly men that think they are restaurant food critics, then the little squirrlley weasel called me a dolt. Dame un beso donde no llega el sol buey. Not you Miguel thats for Blazer Lips.
Watch out, someone might get their panties in a wad and call you a jack ass too.
You weren't called a jackass because you shared an opinion about marinade or even a preference for one kind of beef over another. You were called a jackass because you made a shitty comment about the type of animal the meat might come from. You are indeed a jackass. And if you think the USDA is making sure you get a higher quality of beef, then you aren't even a smart jackass. I repeat, Sonora's beef is among the best in the world, unlike that in the US. You trolls who don't like Mexico sure do like to spend time in here throwing rocks. Why don't you go promote a place you do like? Oh yeah...you're grinding a political axe.
This is where I got my years worth of meat.. bought as a calf and let it walk around the back yard and eat for 6 months then put it in a nice 20x20 pen and fed it only oats with molases some fine alfalfa, and a big 40oz bottle of hard apple cider every day. for 2 months then off to White Tanks Processing to hang for 6 more weeks. and that is how I get my meat in the states BTW the name on the state inspection papers was "Porterhouse" :thumbsup:
