Topic 8 of 82: Tex Mex
Sat, Feb 1, 1997 (15:42) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Tex Mex restaurants!
24 responses total.
Topic 8 of 82 [restaurants]: Tex Mex
Response 1 of 24: oops (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (14:13) * 1 lines
Uh, I put Seis salsas in the mexican category. You guys really ARE too high-brow for me!
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Response 2 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:35) * 5 lines
I already gave my Taco Cabana spiel. One word in Austin Tex Mex, the ultimate:
**** Trudy's Texas Star ****
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Response 3 of 24: KitchenManager (KitchenManager) * Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (20:32) * 6 lines
Anyone around here ever tried Arranda's #3
over on Burnet?
La comida es mejor.
WER
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Response 4 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:08) * 1 lines
Have you done a comparative study on this place vis a vis Trudy's?
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Response 5 of 24: KitchenManager (KitchenManager) * Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (00:50) * 9 lines
Hard to compare the two, different styles, Arranda's
is closer to Mexican than Tex-Mex. Kinda like Pato's
Tacos, over by Fiesta. Ninfas is probably easier to
compare to Trudy's, and the wife and I like Ninfa's
food a lot more, but we always get crappy service.
So, when she's in the mood for Tex-Mex we usually
wind up at Tres Amigos.
WER
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Response 6 of 24: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (14:09) * 6 lines
Trudy's... ahhhhh, the memories. Damn you, Paul. You get me so darn hungry at ork!
Trudy's over Ninfa's anyday!
There is a FABULOUS Tex-Mex place in Denver called Casa Bonita. Don't go for
the food, just the atmosphere. The restuarant is HUGE and they have these cliff diving skits in the center room where you're eating. Great entertainment value
for kids or those of us that just haven't ceased finding excitment in puppet
shows and silly skits!
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Response 7 of 24: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Nov 8, 1997 (02:36) * 3 lines
Chronicle readers say:
Chuy's
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Response 8 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Nov 8, 1997 (09:48) * 6 lines
Have to disagree, as chewy as Chuy's is I'd much rather
chew down at Texas Star on Guadalupe street.
Like their hubcab encrusted wall though.
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Response 9 of 24: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:43) * 2 lines
oooh! some disagreement. I like living in the fray!!
I'd have a difficult time with that one. Chuy's has better salsa (super fresh) but Trudy's has better food! Salsa is muy importante so I dunno.
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Response 10 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:38) * 1 lines
Seis Salsas! for the folks who it is muy importante!
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Response 11 of 24: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (02:33) * 2 lines
¡Seis Salsas! para la gente quien es muy importante!
¿:Es verdad?
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Response 12 of 24: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (18:48) * 1 lines
What is the difference between a mexican restaurant and a tex-mex restaurant?
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Response 13 of 24: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Dec 20, 1998 (03:39) * 3 lines
Tex-Mex defines the genre of Mexican food that you would
typically find in Texas versus those found in Mexico
(Mexican or Interior), California, New Mexico, etcetera...
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Response 14 of 24: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Sun, Dec 20, 1998 (18:12) * 1 lines
For Example:?
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Response 15 of 24: (sprin5) * Sat, May 20, 2000 (06:38) * 1 lines
Trudy's is still the leader, Stacey. I go there often, but it's rare that I go to Chuys. It's just a comfort zone thing.
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Response 16 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 2, 2001 (06:36) * 1 lines
Kerbey Lane Cafe is another one of those comfort zones.
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Response 17 of 24: Stacey (stacey) * Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (18:14) * 4 lines
And on my most recent visit we found a little place just north of Oltorf to the west (?) of Congress (little alley area opposite side of Congress from Excerds (sp??) Drugstore )... AWESOME breakfast tacos and the most amazing cantaloupe juice!!! They make their own tamales and are pretty well known for them according to their posted accolades...
Wish I could remember the name.
Oh, and this place is more Mexican than Tex-Mex...
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Response 18 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (19:33) * 5 lines
When I try to think of the name of that place, I always think first of Guerro's. But the name is actually Curras. It's good. Always crowded. Always good food. You can sit outside on the patio on the edge of the Travis Heights neighborhood. I don't know about an "alley" though, it's right on Oltorf. I've never had their breakfast, but I've had lunch there many a time.
http://www.currasgrillsouth.com/
Not much on their website though, no menu. One of those "under construction" sites.
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Response 19 of 24: Stacey (stacey) * Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (23:57) * 1 lines
Nope... different place... the place I'm talking about IS in the alley! Curra's is good though... been there twice. I think they opened right before I left town.
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Response 20 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 14, 2002 (12:04) * 1 lines
Hmm, then I'm stumped, I've never seen this place. Where is it in relation to Curras?
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Response 21 of 24: Stacey (stacey) * Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (09:48) * 1 lines
West. On the other side of South Congress and just behind that bank that looks like a house. South a bit from Magnolia...
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Response 22 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (13:08) * 1 lines
I know where you're talking about but don't remember seeing it, next time I'm at that corner I'll be on the look out.
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Response 23 of 24: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Dec 7, 2009 (20:47) * 4 lines
i'm posting this as a public service...because i care, man...
if you ever find yourself in the great state of michigan...and you're hungry, whatever...and only mexican food will do,,,
evacuate...flee--by plane is best, or locomotive, car, if you must, bicycle, on foot if you have to, just get the hell out as fast as you can but do not under any conditions no matter what they tell you or how much you think you need your texmex, do not ever ever ever ingest what they claim to be texmex here... to these poor deprived bastards, what does it matter? they don't know any better, but to us, we of the faith and the heritage, we who have eaten of mama ninfa's cheese enchiladas and golden rice and lard-laden refried beans-- it is a twisted and immoral joke... it is more than an affront, it is an assault, it is a murderous rampage on our expectations--upon our birthright, in fact, as texans--and the memory of it can linger for years in our psyche's, even stain the sacred store of our tex-mex Collective Memory--and when that's gone, what the hell is left???
(so, yeah, don't try it)...
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Response 24 of 24: restuaranteur (cfadm) * Wed, Feb 3, 2010 (07:09) * 1 lines
And I thought it was bad that someone complained about Guerros the other day.
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