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FWIW I've never seen ketchup in a London Mexican restaurant. Most make the bulk of their trade on Mission style burritos and similar. It's Mexican viewed through a West Coast American filter.

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And except for a handful they are all very, very bad. Whenever I travel from London back to the bay area my dining consists of maxican and sushi (London sushi has two modes: terribly sad or incredibly expensive.) As a simple example, the only way to get a corn tortilla that is not a deep fried hard taco shell is to either make your own (by ordering masa from Amazon) or arrange for delivery by a service, you cannot find them in the grocery store. In general, it feels more like Mexican viewed by a Brit who spent two weeks in San Francisco once a few years ago...

When I lived in London I would buy corn tortillas "that are not deep free hard taco shells" at least once a week, from the chain grocery stores you find everywhere.

Not real yellow corn tortillas you didn't. I am literally checking waitrose, tesco, aldi, and sainsbury online right now to confirm. Not a single one has a corn tortilla that is not deep fried or else a corn and wheat blend. Perhaps you do not actually know what a corn tortilla looks or tastes like, but there is not one for sale on the shelves in any major chain in London.

Are you look for "gluten free tortilla" or "corn tortilla"? Because gluten free should turn some up.

May eldest daughter has a wheat allergy so we ride the gluten-free train frequently. Over here the gluten-free fare generally uses rice flour, some tapoica starch or potato starch, and your standard stabilizers and thickeners. Gluten-free tortilla on the sites is also a fail, but in one case I found a gluten-free wrap that was a tortilla-like thing made from the same ingredients as the standard gluten-free baking mix. As I suggested in my previous comment, for most people in the UK a "corn tortilla" is actually a corn and wheat blend (usually less than 1/3 corn.)

As an example of the sort of corn tortilla that I try to find, here is the place I order from in London when I do not have time to pull out the press and make my own: http://www.coolchile.co.uk/mexican-shop/corn-tortillas

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