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On 4/21/2025 at 3:49 PM, Deej said:

I'd still kill a Gatti's buffet. 

We don't have a Gatti's near me anymore and haven't for a while. My options are Dominoes or Badinucci. Baldinucci is fucking great but expensive, so we opt for Dominoes. My son was hanging out in Martingale on the river and they bought a bunch of Gatti's and the leftovers made it home to me.  Its not great pizza but I took a bite and immediately felt like I was 10 years old and at the end of season party for Western Hills little league. Gatti's use and ratio of provolone and mozzarella make the flavor so recognizablle. 

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On 11/11/2025 at 11:41 AM, jimmyjazz said:

I guess the second Mama Betty's (Burnet Road), which has been opening "next month" for about a year, is actually going to open this week.  I'm not expecting much, but I imagine we'll give it a try.

Anybody hit up the Burnet Road location yet?  They look to be open full time but don't take reservations, and my wife and I were thinking about going one night this week.  We've never been to the original location in Cedar Park.

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27 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Anybody hit up the Burnet Road location yet?  They look to be open full time but don't take reservations, and my wife and I were thinking about going one night this week.  We've never been to the original location in Cedar Park.

My BIL said it was awful.  He specifically referenced Sysco trucks.

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6 hours ago, South Austin said:

Anybody hit up the Burnet Road location yet?  They look to be open full time but don't take reservations, and my wife and I were thinking about going one night this week.  We've never been to the original location in Cedar Park.

Fajitas and margs are damn good if you like mesquite wood flavor.  Cilantro butter for the chicken is great.  Good hand made tortillas and a ninfas like green sauce.  Cheaper than Lupe, Pappasitos etc 

 

*Cedar park location - haven't tried burnet

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I like Mama Betty’s-I’d rather have a meal there than fucking Le Calamar that everyone on the austin food subreddit continually touts.  
 

There’s an insufficient number of “this is good enough for the money” restaurants in Austin, particularly (somewhat) central.  Also, maybe they’ll pull some overflow from El Dorado and I’ll be able to eat there again without a 1.5 hour wait.  

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13 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

There’s an insufficient number of “this is good enough for the money” restaurants in Austin, particularly (somewhat) central.  

On the money note, in looking online at the Mama Betty's menu, the prices seem generally reasonable.  But $58.99 for fajitas for two?  What the fuck????

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Mama Betty’s was pretty good, not great. If an Y Mas aesthetic is your thing, it’s not the place for you. 

Yeah, I think I said it upthread, but it's more of a girls' happy hour/drinks kind of place.  That kind of joint has its place, and like you I've found it to be pretty good but not great.

EyM is a classic Tex-Mex dive, I hope and pray it never changes and never closes.

 

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On 11/6/2025 at 5:00 PM, utee94 said:

I've had Nixta, and it's delicious for sure.

But I do find it hilarious that the assholes of surly jump all over a place like Torchy's for being gringo tacos with the high prices and non-traditional fillings, but are AOK with summer squash and duck confit tacos that cost $10 each...

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.  

On 11/10/2025 at 3:50 PM, LCHorn said:

IAgain, this is the snob in me but they would be a dime or dozen in Mexico City or Oaxaca  “You nixtamalize your tortillas?  You mean like every street vendor, every grandmother’s kitchen, every Mercado around the block?”

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.

On 11/12/2025 at 1:03 PM, utee94 said:

It's a chicks getting cocktails Tex-Mex kind of place.  The food is okay, but it's definitely drinks and happy hour gringo Mexican.

Sigh.  In other words, it sounds EXACTLY like my gringa wife's kinda place.   Because....

3 hours ago, South Austin said:

Mama Betty’s was pretty good, not great. If an Y Mas aesthetic is your thing, it’s not the place for you. 

....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.

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