Everybody has their own list of creature comforts- small and sometimes guilty pleasures that provide an escape from the stresses of modern times and keep us generally miserable humans from committing hara-kiri. Maria’s has always been a creature comfort for me and many other 78704sters. My Sunday afternoons have seen many a chorizo/egg/cheese taco placed in my hung-over belly. In fact, in the humble opinion of Cabeza De Taco, Maria’s makes the best chorizo in TacoTown, bar none. print it. Read the rest of this entry »

Taco faithful, I have called this meeting to impart my divine and intimate knowledge of one my favorite taco places, the tacogod goto (if you will). This bastion of taco and beverage goodness should always be on a short list for those taco-ites looking to find some of the freshest, tastiest tacos and stiffest, cheapest drinks in all of Austin. I have to admit that this review was a long time in the coming, and I’ll make another admission early on. I am familiar with the owners, and consider them my homies. Therefore I have diligently eaten at Wahoo’s many, many times in order to ensure that I could give a fair and impartial review as to quality of the taco experience. There is one thing alone that sets apart good restaurants from badass, goto, favorites. CONSISTENCY. And this is the mantra at Wahoo’s.

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another day, another taco…made the short trek up slopac to where it hits Burnet.. the newest Tacodeli resides there in a fresh new urban-sprawl strip center.. we walked in to find a decent size late lunch crowd..the cute girl at the counter was nice enough… guiding us through the menu of gringo-inspired tacos, tortas, and burritos..  I ordered a blue plate (2 tacos, rice and beans) with 1 cowboy taco and 1 pork mole taco.. we got a basket of chips and salsa to start things off.. the red sauce with the chips was phenomonal.. i mean it.. it was a great red sauce.. i think may have been some chipotle in it.. highly reccommended.. Read the rest of this entry »

the habby kid! we all knew one of these growing up.. the one that drank the sour milk in your fridge..the one who got tipsy on schnopps and lit his farts on fire… the kid who would do just about anything on a dare..god bless him. he makes it thru maybe 4 or 5 until…

and then theres this numbnut who has his friends put habanero sauce in his eye for $8.. i have no sympathy for such things..

Sunday was the big day of Joby’s 1st Annual Hot Sauce Contest and the weather made it an event only for the diehards.. we braved the cold and had a blast..(the bongits helped!) when the judging was over, Chappy’s Elbo Green had taken 1st place out of the 11 entries.. my Pineapple tropicalia took a respectable 5th place.. honorable mention goes to Bernie’s I.B.S. (Irritable Bowel Sauce).. a lethal cobination of habanero, tequila, pineapple, serrano, and probly qualudes.. it managed to kick all of our asses.. Neil is looking for you Bernie!

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the usual question was asked…”Where today yo? “…..”Habaneros was killer last time, let’s go there.” A quick jaunt down south to Oltorf and South 1st.. Upon arrival, the scent of tex-mex bliss was upon these eager taco eatin’ heroes. Habaneros, curiously named for a pepper that isnt found on the menu.. a forgiveable offense, since the last time we had eaten there, we had a top-notch taco experience.. the pastor was savory, the gorditas were melting in mouths, now wer’re back for the followup… Read the rest of this entry »

Rico’s Tamales on Cesar Chavez..
this is the 3.99 tamale plate.. pork tamales smothered in tex mex sauce.. it was mighty tasty.. and the salsa they give you adds alot to the experiece.. one is jalapeno creme, the other is a vinegar based red sauce.. both were great..
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our good pal Joby is hosting his 1st annual hot sauce contest at Selma Hughes Park (MAP) on Sunday December 10th…. Tacotown is sponsoring the event and we’ll be there unleashing some of our sauces both old and new.. the park is right on Lake Austin, one of the best parks in the area, perfect for grillin and chillin with your homies.. There will be prizes for the winners, potato sack races, bongits, and a general anarchy and partying of the variety you should expect from a tacotown event.. Read the rest of this entry »

So we made it a point this week to go exploring the north side of the ATX… in search of hidden gems.. hoping to strike mexi-gold. It was a trying experience for us..we hit Lamar at 2222 and headed north.. past Los Jefes, our last bad north lamar experience, north past 183.. and then we saw Mr. Pollo.. looked tempting so we parked it and started walking in.. only to be stopped in our tracks by 2 dudes walking out, claiming that they’d been burned! we had to take their word for it.. they seemed like dependable taco loving jerks (pictured at right), so we got back in the car and continued north.. Read the rest of this entry »