Guero's Taco Bar Blog

Just in case you didn’t catch it, we were featured on E-news last night as Sandra Bullock’s favorite mexican food restaurant in Austin, Texas! Here’s the clip:

We are so excited about this!

We can give thanks to Austin Star Maps for spotting celebrity fav-spots in Austin. Heather Brady has an interesting blog going, so if you want to read about her Austin celebrity knowledge, you can follow her here: Austin Star Maps

We love you Sandra! Can’t wait to see you next!

We are happy to have come across these bloggers who visited Austin during Batfest. They seem to know their stuff about margaritas, and we are happy to have impressed them with ours at Guero’s! Here’s an exerpt:

“As an aside, here’s a word about margaritas: they’re not green. They don’t look like slush puppies, and aren’t as sweet as candy. They’re not made with bar mix of any kind. If someone makes you a margarita with any of the features named above, by all means drink it, but don’t think it’s a margarita. Margaritas have three ingredients: good tequila, an orange liqueur, like cointreau or triple sec and fresh-squeezed lime juice, shaken and poured over ice in a small glass. If you absolutely must, salt the rim. That’s it, that’s all. Anything else is like buying Spam at the grocery store and serving it for Easter. Guero’s margaritas are done very right, indeed. A small glass of refreshing perfection”

They also seemed infatuated with our “BEST EVER” quesadillas.

“Here, we snacked on some guacamole and what turned out to be the BEST EVER quesadilla. Soft flour tortillas with chorizo, tomato and onion with good jack cheese, accompanied by sour cream, more guacamole and jalapeno slices. We imagine that they toasted the tortillas on a flatop or in a pan to brown them a little and then steamed them until the cheese melted. As a result we didn’t get any hard and dried out tortillas, just soft and pillowy, oozing with filling.

Thank you Happy Mouth Blog! Read what they had to say about the rest of their Austin experience, here: Happy Mouth Blog

We love nothing more than being recognized as a loved Austin bar and restaurant (okay, maybe mexican food). Read what others are saying about Guero’s Taco Bar.

“Very interesting bar located on 6th Street Bar Austin is famous as Guero’s Taco Bar since 1986 Guero’s Taco Bar is popular taqueria South Austin bar is friendly and the type of climate in history has a lovely decoration as well as photos of the Mexican revolution , Guero’s Taco Bar has a self-service salsa bar salsa bar is a taste of traditional bar Guero’s restaurant offers a sidewalk garden look very clean. You’ll also receive a private garden, you may have had some lovely, fresh Mexican food. Bar offers food, you create something to do with the invention of self, and formulas such as Caldo – to – Pollo is chicken soup full of vegetables, fresh corn tortillas In addition, the band is very famous. They are really cool.”

To read the rest of this article about 6th Street in Austin, go here: Austin 6th Street

Thanks again Austin, we will continue to bring in “really cool” bands and keep the salsa coming! Guero’s loves Austin, Texas.

When you cater to Texans, give them what they want.  That’s Guero’s.  There are several different food categories you may consider when it comes to catering.  But let’s be honest, one thing us Texans can all agree on is that Mexican Food is always the best choice.

The next thing you need to decide is if you want the caterers to mean mug your guests and slap a cold enchilada on their plate, OR if you want a hard-working Guero’s staff to prepare, deliver, serve, and clean up with a smile.  Of course, if you want to just order and pick it up yourself, we can just smile at you when you get here. We’re flexible like that.

All of our menu items are prepared fresh in Guero’s kitchen by our staff adhering strictly to recipes brought from Mexico by our chefs, so you know the taste is authentic.

Our stellar reputation as an established Austin Mexican food restaurant didn’t happen by accident.  So if you trust Austin, you can trust us.  We want to make you happy, so let us do what we love and impress you and your guests with the tastiest Mexican Food that Austin has to offer.  We want to make catering as simple and as easy on you as possible, so here are some suggested catering options under our website’s catering section: Guero’s Catering Menu

Decisions, decisions. If you need a personal catering consultation call 447-7688 or email us at catering@guerostacobar.com.

Keep us in mind next time you need to cater, and we’ll be here waiting, fajitas and all.

Friends, Guests, Austinites, lend us your ears! It’s a Tex-Mex Music & Margarita Weekend! Here at Guero’s we never want you to spend your weekend empty handed, which is why we have  created the perfect formula to match margaritas with your music!  Come in and dine with us to enjoy rockin’ local bands with rockin’ margaritas.

Here’s what we suggest:

Friday @ 6:30pm

The Music:  Los Flames are back by popular demand. Their blues, classic rock, and soul music will be a perfect start to your weekend.

The Margarita:  Silver Train. Take a ride on the Soul Train with Los Flames and on the Silver Train with our Silver Train Rita! Our Silver Train is made with Herradura Silver, Cointreau and fresh squeezed lime juice. Choo Choo!

Saturday @ 6:30pm

The Music:  Ponty Bone & The Squeeze Tones has a familiar SoCo, Austin vibe of jazz and blues.

The Margarita:  Soco Rita. Naturally, with a local vibe, we have to suggest our locally named margarita to set the mood. Our Soco Rita is made with Cazadores Roponsada, Cointreau & fresh squeezed lime juice! Feel the taste buds tingling?

Sunday @ 3:00pm

The Music:  Mitch Webb & The Swindles have that rockabilly and roots country feel to make you fall in love with Tex-Mex all over again.

The Margarita: The Heart of Texas. Deep in the Heart of Corazon Silver, Cointreau and fresh squeezed lime juice. It’s perfect for a delicious Tex-Mex experience.

Come one, come all! We hope to see you there.

Austin has its fair share of Mexican restaurants and it can be hard to figure out which are truly authentic Mexican eateries. In order to save you from all the imitation Mexican food out there, we put Guero’s, the South Congress favorite, to the test and compiled a checklist of what to look for the next time you’re craving the flavors of a true Mexican cantina.

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Corn Tortillas are probably the single most important component for a Mexican restaurant and can make or break an entire restaurant’s menu. Nobody knows that better than Guero’s who would never settle for prepackaged and shipped corn tortillas. Instead, each corn tortilla is made by hand in the restaurant daily. If they don’t melt in your mouth immediately, then they weren’t made by your abuela or by the Guero’s staff.

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Margarita’s are another one of Mexico’s greatest contributions to the drink menu. Always check out a restaurant’s bar menu before committing to a location and if they don’t offer their own signature mix of juices and top-shelf tequilas, just keep walking. Guero’s offers a full line of signature and traditional blends always made with fresh squeezed limejuice.

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Dessert may be left for last, but they are still just as important as any other dining components at a Mexican café. While there’s a place for cheesecake and cookies, they don’t belong on this list. When asking for dessert at a Mexican restaurant, you should expect sponge cake that’s been soaked in three different milks otherwise known as tres leches and caramel covered sweet custard better known as flan. These two delicacies are of course always made homemade at Guero’s and are often hard to skip even after the biggest taco plate.

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Live music is important to both the Mexican and Austin culture, so don’t go to a place without it. Luckily, Guero’s has live music Thursday through Sunday.

There you have it. Basically, if you don’t find each of these four criteria at an Austin Mexican restaurants, you know you’re not getting a truly authentic experience and you should probably just head over to Guero’s.

The press is going wild about our outdoor stage being shut down the other night. Politicians like Mayor Pro-Tem Mike Martinez who pledged to help us obtain the necessary permits have decided instead to play politics with the issue. So allow us to clear the air!

Gary over at Austin City Permits has, in my opinion, the accurate story of how all this came to be. It’s almost good enough for a made for TV movie — almost.

Here’s a little blurb from FOX this morning:

UPDATE:

Here’s Guero’s owner Rob Lippincott arguing his case before the Austin City Council: (he starts @ 10:55)