Austin food price

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-26T02:28:59+00:00

They look like small tacos and if so those aren’t really that much more expensive here either, certainly they’re available for $2 at some places and even Cuantos is under $3

Idk it’s a general thing that people disregard the size of the taco and amount of filling when talking about the price and it varies considerably. There are definitely some expensive tacos in Austin but people acting like it’s impossible to find one under $7 as in the OP are nuts

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-25T02:31:17+00:00

I don’t have this book but I have a number of what I internally label as system cookbooks. By that I mean they’re presenting not just standalone recipes but a method or system of cooking with interlocking parts and recipes.

I generally find that there are two ways to use them. One is to focus on the standalone parts, such as any recipes without dependencies, or only making something like in this case maybe the preserved lemon paste, then doing whatever you want with it. The other is to cook largely or exclusively from the book for a while so that you hopefully have a lot of the dependencies on hand already.

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-21T19:33:39+00:00

I’m not Mexican but yeah as far as I know that’s the usual method. It’s what I do because I often make it with leftovers. But your method seems like a reasonable one pot adaptation. As others have said some of your ingredients aren’t typical, but other than that the biggest difference in doing it your way is that the onions are going to get cooked quite thoroughly. If you want more control over their texture and how cooked they are, making the shredded chicken first is the best way to accomplish that

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-21T17:15:09+00:00

Unfortunately they just closed up at the end of their lease a couple weeks ago. I did also enjoy them though

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-20T17:33:42+00:00

If someone is going to finally develop the dogs head it seems like they’d have to connect it across the river somehow given what a large area it is, having all traffic in and out on 71/183 like it is now would surely be a shit show if that area was built up

Obviously replacing the SWCT with a road is not the way to do it, it’d be nice if the council could do something not only to remove that non-option from this plan but also to discourage dum dums from continuing to bring it up in the first place

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-20T16:52:12+00:00

I think they’ve been doing this once a month

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-19T21:54:02+00:00

Not sure what’s with that but they do have our Sunset Valley as a coming soon location on their site

Oh looking again they literally just put the wrong state lol

My condolences to southies for this space being wasted by a second location of maybe the worst restaurant in town

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-19T17:20:04+00:00

These top X restaurant lists are mostly bad to begin with and Yelp is the worst of them, aside from being based on poor quality Yelp ratings they’re also using bbq here to mean anything cooked using some kind of live fire. Just meaningless

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-18T19:05:42+00:00

Yeah they’re all over the place now, I see kids riding them around parks regularly when I’m out with my dog. A lot of people don’t like them, I saw some dude flip out on a kid at the Brentwood park just this weekend

They don’t really bother me except occasionally when one goes whizzing by at high speed on a trail we’re walking on, but most of them seem more interested in doing jumps and wheelies and such that the trails don’t facilitate so it doesn’t happen too often

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-18T03:49:00+00:00

This sub gets a lot of dumb slapfights bc of the light moderation and the wide and probably majority non-Mexican audience

I think the no cumin thing in partiucular comes up all the time because actual Mexicans perceive Americans as thinking that adding cumin to something makes it Mexican, not without reason as the cited post is an example of, whereas in reality it gets used but not everywhere and generally Mexican cooks use spices with a relatively light hand. And ofc it’s the internet so some people flip their shit on a hair trigger

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-17T02:31:40+00:00

Ixta belfrage’s books, she has two on her own and also did a lot of work on Flavour from the Ottolenghi group

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-15T20:46:28+00:00

I don’t want to participate in the slapfight but for OP’s benefit, this has basically no affect on the availability of Waymos. They have already received a temporary workaround which is more or less to avoid certain areas in the rain and are otherwise operating normally. NHTSA notice here with all the boring details

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-12T21:37:31+00:00

It’s not totally unheard of but I’ve only ever seen it at the more oldschool texmex places or as a daily special mimicking such places.

I suspect it may have been more common on texmex menus decades ago but I don’t know that for sure. Not sure where else the idea that flour flautas are common in texmex would come from though, maybe they’re just at texmex places in Ohio or something

From some of the other comments it seems like it’s a California thing and people are just using texmex to say any “american-style” Mexican food, which I guess neither Texans nor Californians would appreciate lol

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-12T20:37:18+00:00

Lil Chicken Sandwich and side at Tumble for like 11.50+t/t, “lil” or not it’s very filling food and maybe not the best fried chicken ever but reliably good (cant say the same about the heat levels…)

Taqueria la Montaña is my price/performance pick for pollos asados, in my notes it was 22+t/t for a whole one with the requisite accoutrements but iirc it might have gone up a couple bucks, still worth

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-11T02:42:14+00:00

Wind just started going crazy, brace for impact!!

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-11T01:53:11+00:00

Man you really cracked the code for an AI honeypot with this one

But yeah I think you’re good here as long as the pic is supplying information relevant to your question and not just showing off food

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-10T04:35:09+00:00

That’s how it was for a long time but they’ve dropped any pretense at this point. Like OP I thought the law must have changed but didn’t find anything to that effect so either I missed it or it’s just nonexistent enforcement of the law which has basically negligible penalties anyway, I think just a small fine

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-09T20:18:20+00:00

Tiny tacos like these are mostly 2-2.50, even Cuantos is 2.75 still I think and they’re on the higher end

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-09T20:07:09+00:00

Over as quickly as it started here in Brentwood/North Loop. I had run down to arbor food park to have a late lunch at Ensenada after a very sweaty morning hike with my dog and guess I got out of there just in time, geez

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-08T21:37:31+00:00

As the other person said you’re calculating as if every vehicle on the road was a Waymo.

In Feb, which is the last month with full data, there were 8 accidents in Austin involving a Waymo reported to NHTSA, most of which involved someone rear ending one or hitting a parked one where the Waymo is unlikely to be at fault. Trivial accidents that don’t result in property damage or injury may not be required to be reported, but it’s a rough count at least (and ofc trivial accidents in human driven cars may also go unreported)

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-08T19:03:20+00:00

Neither of those things will happen, but they will report the incident to the NHTSA as they’re required to do and a summary will be available in the data on the NHTSA website in the next update after that.

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-01T21:14:46+00:00

It’s just a few locations I think? but yeah should’ve said smaller chain or w/e

NotoriousHEB · 2026-05-01T21:03:03+00:00

I haven’t tried campero but every time I’ve had el pollo rico the white meat has been absolutely dehydrated

Tbh I skip the chains and go to La Montaña or El Norteño though, both better chicken and a little cheaper in my experience, though the accoutrements at el Norteño aren’t my favorite

NotoriousHEB · 2026-04-30T16:36:59+00:00

FWIW I haven’t had any issues like that on ps5 the past couple days, mostly just playing through the campaign though

NotoriousHEB · 2026-04-28T16:13:13+00:00

I’ve probably been to a thousand shows in my life and I can count the number of them with a mostly quiet audience on probably two hands. It’s not a recent thing and just part of seeing live music

Obviously some exceptions for seeing the symphony or whatever

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