La Mejor Barbacoa Mexican Restaurant is just by Old Town Glendale in Arizona. (The sign on road specifies Barbacoa Restaurant)…… The Specialty of the restaurant is their Lamb Barbacoa (BBQ Lamb) but they also offer, a Cured Meat Platter, Pozole Verde (pork soup), Tacos, Huaraches (long corn flat cake like tortilla with toppings), Quesadilla (LONG grilled tortillas with traditional fillings that include squash blossoms and or huitlacoche ((corn smut)), Meunudo (peppery soup with tripe and posole), Caldo de Rez ( Beef Vegetable Soup) and many Mexican Desserts too!

Here are the menus. (sorry I couldn’t avoid the glare)

This isn’t a fancy place but it seems spotless.

There is bilingual wait service.

I soon receive my Huitlacoche Quesadilla.

The Huitlacoche is slightly saucier and less stringy than huitlacoche I had in Mexico.

You might be wondering…WTFork is Huitlacoche?

A fungus or disease causes corn kernels to swell in size and turns the corn kernels a blueish color………and boy does it look ugly. The kernels must be cooked to a black color to be edible.  But somehow then it turns the diseased corn kernels into something special……and is even also called Mexican Truffle at this point. Huitlacoche has a kind of mild earthy taste but is also described as a woody sweet and savory mild mushroom flavor. I’ve read that the Huitlacoche is more nutritious than the corn it once was.

Huitlacoche has been considered a delicacy for centuries in Aztec Culture and is many times more expensive than the corn without the fungus or disease.

This is the first time I’ve had Huitlacoche with at least two kinds of roasted corn in it. I like the fresh sweet white corn in it and the yellow corn kernels has a more roasted flavor. The huilacoche is earthy but not too earthy………….  It’s mushroom-ee and corny. They grilled the tortilla lightly and they got the mild white cheese inside nice and melty. We got two house made sauces and I enjoyed the house made green sauce with this quesadilla very much. It was delicious!

My husband got the Bisteck Huaraches.

I’m sorry now that I didn’t have a fork in the picture to show how big this really is. This is BIGGER than the Quesadilla on an EVEN BIGGER plate…..I mean platter. This is some sort of flat bread or cake that seems fried and is spread with refried beans, a little green sauce, Mexican crumbling cheese and very tasty caramelized tender steak slices.

The food we tried was delicious and both platters cost less than $20.00 before tip.

I’d say La Mejor Barbacoa is  Worth a Fork!

I couldn’t find a website but you can find La Mejor Barbacoa is on Facebook.

EVERY FORKING THING EVERYWHERE is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.