Those who say you can¡¯t find good Mexican food in Tokyo are mistaken ¡ª they just haven¡¯t looked hard enough.

Plumb the depths of the many thousands of eateries that jostle for space in Tokyo¡¯s 23 wards and you will find Mexican cuisine galore. To be fair, it is a bit of a chimeric landscape. There is Tex-Mex, Cal-Mex (California¡¯s take on Mexican food), honest takes on Mexican home cooking, Japanized mashups of chile con carne proportions and sometimes a mix featuring all of the above.

Therefore, a good rule of thumb for finding Mexican food in Tokyo is that it¡¯s not necessarily a case of where it is most authentic but where it is most delicious.