It's time for our weekly Chowdown Showdown!

This week, we are on the hunt for the best place to get Mexican food in the Barrington and Lake Zurich area.

It’s simple to vote on your favorite spot: All you need to do is sign into our site and then comment below with your vote. Feel free to elaborate on why this restaurant’s Mexican food is so fantastic. Whatever it is that has put your favorite Mexican restaurant on the top of your list, we want to hear about it!

You have until 5 p.m. Tuesday to let us know your favorite spots.

From there: It’s up to you to vote. You can vote by submitting a poll answer, telling us in the comments section of the column or by commenting on Facebook — Lake Zurich Patch page, Barrington Patch page — or sending us a message on Twitter — @BarringtonPatch or @LakeZurichPatch.

On Wednesday morning, we will post the top three finalists — determined by your votes in this article, on Facebook and on Twitter — in a poll. And it will be time to vote again — this time for the weekly Chowdown Showdown champion.

Voting will continue through 5 p.m. Friday. We will post the Showdown winner first thing Saturday morning.

Sound good? Great. Now lets get the voting rolling. Which restaurant do you think has the best Mexican food in the Barrington/Lake Zurich area?