Ahem. I am an asshole of Surly who shits on BOTH Torchy's and places that serve $10 duck confit tacos. Serve fucking real mexican food made by real mexicans who flip tortillas with their goddamned hands and charge the appropriate price.
And this. Nixta's gimmick is "we make tortillas like literally 11,000 joints on every corner all over Mexico, and that makes us super special?" Fuck that. Decent fresh tortillas should be a goddamned baseline. And it's not that fucking hard, goddamned mexicans have been doing it for 1,000 fucking years.
Sigh. In other words, it sounds EXACTLY like my gringa wife's kinda place. Because....
....my wife is not a fan of Enchiladas Y Mas. I think it just strikes her as too "low rent."
She prefers La Mancha (which is.....fine...okay food, but man, do we always run into West Austin gringos we know, which she enjoys), although I HAVE gotten her into El Nuevo Mexico at the end of Anderson where it hits Lamar. And I recommend it. Good mixed crowd (gringos for tex-mex, as well as real mexicans eating there), damned solid cheese enchiladas, and other stuff. My mexican handyman says their menudo is the real deal, so I'll be trying it soon. And apparently, their breakfasts are outstanding.