Because we get bored with doing the same thing over and over — and because we assume you get bored too — it’s been a while since we’ve done one of our “Humboldt’s Best”-themed polls. For whatever reason, we were looking through our old winners’ list (see below) and were shocked — gobsmacked, even — when we noticed we never did “Best Mexican Food.” We did “Best Burrito.” We did “Best Torta.” But we never did maybe the most broad and obvious Humboldt category there is. Ay, Dios mio.

Well, today we atone. But in order to make our polling a bit more fair and maybe helpful to readers, we’re breaking up our local Mexican food offerings by geography. Your mission below, should you choose to accept, is to select the finest purveyors of Mexican cuisine in Fortuna, Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville and the rest of Humboldt. (You can answer “I don’t know,” if you, ya know, don’t know.)

Because this is a topic dear to many, we are going to have these polls run for a week. Rally your troops. Let us know who we forgot.

OK. Enough words. VOTE.










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