Posted in Food, Mexican, tagged Austin on June 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
What’s the point of naming a favorite queso? Can queso be bad? Unless you’re talking the shelf-stable stuff you find in jars at gas stations, queso is a safe bet (at least in Austin). Like pizza and french fries, even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
But I need to just say this: I love the queso at Torchy’s.
Posted in Food, Mexican, Trailer Food, tagged Austin, East Austin on June 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
We finally made it to one of Austin’s most celebrated food trucks: El Naranjo. This is a truck with some serious bona fides. Chef Iliana de la Vega first made a name for herself in Oaxaca with a restaurant of the same name. These days, she lives in Austin and teaches Latin American cuisine at the San Antonio campus of the Culinary Institute of America. Here she is showing epicurious how to make corn tortillas.
The truck is in East Austin on Rainey Street, in front of a house that will soon house de la Vega’s restaurant, which will also be called El Naranjo.
Shrimp tacos were the highlight. Here, de la Vega shows Texas Monthly’s Patricia Sharpe how they’re made. We thought we’d be able to get her mole, which is only served on Wednesdays, but they had temporarily stopped serving it due to light crowds. This only makes us more eager for the full-on restaurant to open.
Taquitos.
More tacos.
Posted in Breakfast, Food, Mexican, tagged Austin, Downtown Austin on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Breakfast is not one of the more beautiful meals. But it is my favorite one. We recently enjoyed a brunch at La Condesa with our friend Amanda, who was visiting from London. Amanda introduced me and Eliza. There’s hardly a lovelier way to begin the day.
Posted in Food, Mexican on May 16, 2011| 1 Comment »
I am obsessed with queso fundido. Zandunga, a hard-to-pronounce Mexican restaurant on the East side has some of the best in town. As befits a hard-to-pronounce restaurant, theirs features huitlacoche.
Tiger Prawns “A La Diabla” are seriously spicy.
Carnitas in the shape of the Borg starship.
Posted in Food, Mexican, tagged Allandale, Austin on May 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Some days, you need some Taqueria Arandas. In our case, flautas and the torta milanesa.
Ben
eliza
Chicken Fried Everything 