Mexican food is served at nearly 40,000 American restaurants, and its popularity seems to know no bounds. However, the term "Mexican food" is actually an umbrella over several less-broad categories of cuisine; often times, when you enter a Mexican food restaurant, you can't be sure what you will get until you see the menu. To better help understand your options (at, say, a Mexican restaurant near Tucson Arizona), below is more information on two of the more popular subtypes of Mexican food and the specific foods that are distinctive of both:
