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It seems like a lot of places are moving to a mix & match menu, where you choose your protein, toppings, sauce and method of delivery.

There are positives and negatives to doing it this way for the vendor, but for the customer, we can only see positives. What can be better than choosing exactly what you want in your dish?

If you’re one of those people who can’t decide when given a lot of choices, there is still the preset menu, which puts together their suggested ingredients.

For the vendor, customizing each dish slows things down a little, but giving your customer exactly what they want is the best customer service you can offer.

Mexicue’s new mix & match menu has some now items, so click through to see what they are, and to hear about the lunch they made up just for us.

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It’s time for the next Mexicue recipe contest, and the stakes are being raised!

In April, the winner of the Spring Recipe Contest for using lamb won a $50 gift certificate to Mexicue.

For the Fall Recipe Contest, the winner gets free sliders on the truck for a year, and their menu item featured on the menu for the Fall.

Click through to find out what the magic ingredient is for the Fall Recipe Contest.

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Mexicue will be giving away 100 free lunches sometime next week, but if you want to find out where and when, it’s going to be announced on the Loci.st iPhone app.

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How would you like to win a $50 gift certificate to Mexicue?  What about having one of your recipes featured on their menu?

It’s time for the Spring Recipe Contest, and for this round, the special ingredient is lamb.

Create a Mexicue menu item out of Lancaster Farm Lamb, and if your recipe is chosen, you will win the two items mentioned above…plus the respect of all your peers.

The contest ends May 5th, so put your cooking caps on and get crackin’.

Entries can be submitted via Facebook, Twitter or info@mexicue.com.  Good luck!

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When I went down to the World Financial Center Food Truck Lot recently, there were 5 different trucks to choose from.  I wanted to get a lunch that I hadn’t tried yet, and a rice bowl from Mexicue fit the bill perfectly.

You can get a rice bowl with fillings from any of the main dishes.  They all cost $9.75, and I went for the burnt ends chili.

Chefs and BBQ aficionados know the burnt ends are some of the tastiest pieces of barbecued meat.  Using the burnt ends of brisket for chili is a genius move on the part of Mexicue.  Add some ground beef and a sweet and spicy BBQ sauce, and you have the makings of a kick-ass chili.

On the bottom of the bowl they put paprika lime rice. Then chili is placed on the rice, and it’s all topped with lettuce, jalapeños, cilantro lime crema, crumbled cojita cheese and crispy tortilla strips.

Wow, was this good!  The chili was nice and spicy, especially the bites with jalapeños.  The rice tempered the spiciness a bit, and the tortilla strips added a welcome salty aspect that played really well off the sweetness of the bbq sauce.

Mexicue makes the rounds of various neighborhoods, so you can find them on twitter here or on our Mobile Munchies twitter feed.  They also have 2 storefronts, one near Penn Station and one on the Lower East Side, so when the urge hits, you have several ways to get Mexicue.