So since we have moved to Austin, we haven't gotten to eat at as many places as we would like to.. however, we are slowly but surely making our rounds to the famous Austin eateries.
There's a delicious mexican food restaurant called
Trudys (
http://www.trudys.com/) Great flautas, also the chorizo stuffed chicken (I know.. intense) is delish. The queso (which you get for free if you sit at the bar) is spicy and tasty. Also, we got free koozies, which is never a bad thing :) I'd say about a $$ on the price scale, over 10 bucks an entree, but worth it!
Chuys-also an Austin favorite and one that is highly talked about. Similar to Trudy's in menu selection and items, a little cheaper than Trudys. (
http://www.chuys.com/)
Mangia pizza - this is close to our house, and we had been eyeing it for a while. It's "chicago style deep dish pizza", and it's amazing. It's a pizza pie, literally. We had a stuffed pizza and an italian sandwhich and they were both great. Great atmosphere and FREE WI-FI. (
http://www.mangiapizza.com/) The sandwhiches and lunch specials are reasonable, to get a large stuffed pizza it's a little pricy.
Maggie's Cafe - a little locally owned place that put a flyer on our apartment door, and we decided to check it out. SO GOOD. And pretty reasonable. They've got burgers, chicken fried steak, pasta, and it's all home cooked and locally owned, which is a perk for us. We buy into the local market :) They load their burgers up and give great sides. Highly recommended! No website but here's their info:
Maggie's Cafe
12001 n. mo pac expressway suite J
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 906-0069
A good friend of ours Allison turned us on to these great coupon sites (
http://www.thelunchdeal.com/,
http://www.groupon.com/,
http://www.adealio.com/ ) and most of they time they have deals that are like "pay $10 and get $20 worth of food". This is helped us to be able to eat out but not spend a bunch. Because of these sites we ate at
El Nuevo Mexico - We are missing our Corpus Christi mexican food. A little place, cheap food, and deliciousness. Honestly, this is the closest we have found to it! It was a little more expensive than what we are used to, but their Carne Guisada was great, and their beef flautas are also delish!
911 W Anderson Ln # 120, Austin, TX 78757-1562 (512) 458-5454
Hopefully we can keep up with these coupon sites, because they're one hell of a deal! Although, we ate at Jo's Coffee on S. Congress, and were a bit disappointed in the food. There were tons of people there, so we thought it would be great. But we just weren't that impressed with our Turkey Sub and Tuna, and our "italian soda" was water with cherry flavoring, and it tasted like cherry medicine. Their coffee was pretty good, although I had to add more sugar, but their Iced Mocha wasn't too shabby.
I also at at Red Table Coffee, and I don't want to bash it, because the atmosphere was great, but the coffee badly needed sugar. I got a mocha, which was really affordable, and they do cute designs with their whipped cream, but the chicken salad sandwhich was full of dark meat (which i'm not a huge fan of) although the rosemary bread was great. It seems like a great Vegan place, as a lot of their menu options sound delish without meat.
We recently went to barton springs, which was great-pictures to come soon. And tonight we visited the Viva La Vida fest and it was AMAZING! The Mexic-art museum put it on, and it was so neat. Dia De Los Muertos is such a neat and fun holiday to celebrate-pics to follow (we got a ton)
Much Puppy love-
A&L B&R <3
