Sorry folks that I had failed to follow up, and explain what part of NM
I live.

I live in Alamogordo, which as many here know is southern NM, and has to
be one of the worst "larger" towns in NM for food (of any kind!)

I don't know why it is, but one place I recently visited here called
Carolinas, had good tasting food. Thier Chile Colorado (Meat+Potatoes in
red sauce) tasted good, yet, for $5.99 for the dinner, there was only
two little cubes of meat, the rest was potatoes, and with the meal comes
two Corn Tortillas. Two extra Tortillas will cost you another 75 cents!

The meal was so small, I figured I'd be easily spending $20 to leave
content, so for being so stingy with thier servings, very unlikely I'll
ever be patronizing this place again.

At another place in town called Marias, I one day had what was
supposedly called a Steak Burrito, which was nothing but nasty fat, and
gristle. So nasty, I had to spit half of it out.
This is what restaurants here choose to serve people. Basically, this
doesn't even fall under "Mexican Food", but rather IMO "Dog Food" in
Alamogordo, NM.

Sure, I'd assume much better quality in food in places like Santa
Fe/Albuquerque, and in fact, I've had better food in Juarez Mexico the
few times I've been there.

Coming from Chicago, Ill, I enjoyed much better quality of mexican fare,
from places like El Milagro, Nuevo Leon, and even the chain Restaurant
"Pepe's"!

Honestly, Pepe's was certainly not the place for what one would call the
best in Mexican food, but in truth, Pepe's easily bests many of the
Mexican eateries I've sampled here in NM.

At least I could walk into a Pepe's, and order a decent Carne Asada
Steak Dinner, with all the trimmings. Here, the majority of places won't
even serve such fare, as they'd probably have to charge $15-$17 for the
dinner, and anybody who lives here would not be willing to spend this
sort of money, and get some horrible nasty shriveled up Steak in return.

Sadly, many places in NM, such as Alamogordo continually fail to come
out of the Stone Age. People here basically have no appreciation for
quality food, and would rather spend thier dollars at Taco Bell, and
Dominos Pizza. Mark