Red Chili Enchiladas

[Joe H]

My wife and I just came back from Santa Barbara.  I have eaten Mexican food all over America and believe that I have eaten among the best.  Prior to this trip my benchmark for a "basic" dish like a red chili enchilada with beef was L and G in El Paso.  On another thread I rhapsodized about flying on Southwest to Texas only to visit this biker bar/Tex Mex palace for their enchiladas.  They were THAT good.

On Sunday night I had it's equal.  At Los Agaves in Santa Barbara which is more of a real Mexican restaurant and less of Cal/Mex or El Paso like.  (seafood Molcajete, cazuela poblanos)  Considered to be Santa Barbara's best-I think the equal of any I have ever been to.

We want to go back.  There or El Paso.  Doesn't matter.  I never thought I would have a red chili enchilada as good as what I found next to a graveyard in Texas (!) but I found it in Santa Barbara.

Is there anywhere, anywhere (!) in the greater D. C. area that does a genuinely outstanding job with enchiladas?  I'm almost afraid to ask this because last week's was so good.  But my wife doesn't really want to fly back only for an enchilada.

Well, maybe if we also had the molcajete and the cazuela and the....

I should also mention something about the Santa Ynez valley and pinot and syrah but that is another thread.

Who is doing the absolute best job with interior Mexican style Mexican food right now in the D. C. area?  Anyone?