Got this On the house too. (cuz i had to wait for them to cook it) The
mango cucumber pico is delicious.
:: Cabeza

Thursday Special: Scallop Taco | $3.25
pan-seared scallops with roasted peppers & corn relish on fresh corn tortilla

Thursday Special: TacoLomo | $2.75
Slow roasted pork loin with a basil pasilla mojo, shredded red cabbage and roasted red peppers

Cowboy Taco | $3.25
Grilled Beef Tenderloin w/ Caramelized Onions, Grilled Corn, Roasted Peppers, Guacamole & Queso Fresco

TacoDeli
MAP | 1500 Spyglass Dr, Austin, TX 78746
(512) 306-8770
www.tacodeli.com |   Taco Town’s coverage on Tacodeli >

:: cabeza

Al (of focus) Pastor Taco

Fuego’s was started up by a family of ex-patriate californians. Cabeza and I ate there about a year ago, and remember the place having a promising menu..but it was understaffed and seemed to be on a shoe-string budget.  I just checked out some of the recent reviews on Chowhound, and Fuego’s looks to be finding its groove. The fish tacos are a consensus highlight…We’ll be back for a followup visit soon. Oh yeah, and its BYOB and right next to a liquor store.. They are at a strange location.. on lamar, just south of 183..It takes a u-turn to get there if you’re coming from the south.. more reviews on yelp

Fuego’s
Authentic Mexican & California Cuisine
7600 North Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78752
512-524-1164

Our good friend Elizabeth AKA The Wandering Teacher has been wandering (and blogging) her way “Around the World” since August…Right now she’s partying with the soccer hooligans in Brazil, but already she’s seen the ancient ruins of Tikal, climbed volcanos near Antigua, taught Kindergarten in Nicaragua, and of course she’s eaten tacos in Honduras.

You never really know what you are going to get when you order food anywhere while you are traveling. There is a lot lost in translation. When you are hungry, you will eat just about anything… A lot of my orders is pointing & praying. I have broadened my horizons tremendously as I travel. (Crazy to think that I didn’t eat EGGS till I went to Spain.)

In Central America I have learned that “enchiladas” are actually “tacos” and vice-versa. This meal was in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and cost me $1.50 (The refresco’s are almost more expensive than the actual meals.) In general the street food has been delicious & super cheap. One of the best parts of this meal is we traveled back in time to some cheesy 80s tunes because the cafe played VH1 classics! (I have been surprised how many cheesy 80′s love ballads are still played here in Central America.)

We are very spoiled with homemade salsa back home. The “hot sauce” has been less than par throughout Central America. It comes in a squirt bottles and always super runny.  Read the rest here…

Look for an official Taco Town review from The Wandering Teacher soon…

\cabeza

So this was the newest batch of crap to come out of Bernie’s factory.  The crew went to Fiesta to get ingredients to make our sauces and salsas for Joby’s 3rd Annual Hot Sauce Contest (big props to TacoBlob for actually funding this project because i couldn’t, but whats new?). I didn’t really like the selection at Fiesta.  Furthermore, I wanted this sauce to be organic so we went over to Central Market and spent twice what we would have at Fiesta.  Buttfuckit, it was worth it.  The habaneros at CM were HUGE and pretty much the best looking ones ive ever seen.  They were from Holland….it was destiny.

After grabbing all this shit i went and got some tequila from the liquor store which was fun to use and shoot at the same time.  However, i needed more liquid in this sauce so i had to use almost the entire pint of tequila. Plus, I wanted to use it as a preservative for all the fruit and stuff in the sauce.  I usually use white vinegar but wanted to steer clear of it this time- cuz vinegar adds a totally different taste.

Ladies: meet me at Benders

After tons of blending and much deliberation on the sweetness and heat, Bernie’s Agent Orange Sauce was done…until Cabeza de Taco informed me that it needed salt…good thing, because i meant to put that in there and totally failed.  So, I added quite a bit of sea salt and it was much better.  Still, as i figured, it was just too hot for the wusses casting the votes down at the contest.

I was really pleased with the overall taste of it, though.  Its very tropical right away.  As far as the heat is concerned- the habaneros really didn’t punch you in the face right away, which was nice.  However, they did hang out and party on your tongue for about half an hour after eating just a little bit.

Overall, i was stoked that it came out OK.  I liked the idea of sitting down and trying to think of everything that was orange that could go into this sauce, as that was my theme from the start.  Next time i will just take it down a notch on the habaneros for all the pussies out there.  I thought it was called a HOT SAUCE festival…

originally posted 10/13/07…bumped for your pleasure, and since TacoBlob has apparently given up writing, or tacos…or maybe he’s too busy prowling for glutes. - cabeza

After a long 10 hour day at work, and nothing much to do this evening, I got the feeling I got to ramble. So I head down to where I used to dwell, Riverside area in South Austin. Thank god I just paid my car insurance, one thing about driving on the East Side, especially around Oltorf and Riverside is that folks drive like cock-asses. After dodging low riders and angry community college kids, I decide to go down memory lane and drive by my old misery pit, my old apartment complex in South Austin. Chevy Chase Downs, I actually picked the place because it was named after Chevy Chase, it had two pools and looked pretty depressing

This was a great match at the time as I was fat, angry and miserable… Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to all who came out and supported Joby’s Hot Sauce Fest. Taco Town took home the first place price for a the third year in a row! Chappy’s green sauce didnt win this year, it was the dark horse, dboz’s pineapple-habanero concoction that won over the crowd in a field of over 20 entries.

His sauce was a fresh, all organic mix of pineapple, guava, lime, cilantro, habanero peppers, and one item that will remain his secret. All adding up to a tropical fiesta for the mouth that earned him 1 year of glory.

the winners:

• 1st Place – DBOZ
• 2nd Place – Joby’s mom
• 3rd Place – Kem Watts
• 4th Place – Angela Hodges

more pics after the jump..
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