Austinist: In Praise of Unique Restaurants (A Review of Buenos Aires Cafe)

Sam

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:35:14 -0600

Real mexican food is fine. It's the Tex-Mex is generaly goey bean and cheese slop, bad beef and chicken asses and geasy rice! Love Buenos Aires Cafe

Chester Cheetah

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:44:05 -0600

Mexican food is popular b/c it contains lard and cheese. Therefore, if you are a veggie-cool hippie or consist of 220 pounds of red meat and porn… you will like it. and it dont cost much neither it aint eazy bein cheezy -CC

odam

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:21:42 -0600

we had lunch there last week. the butternut squash soup was amazing and the south american chorizo sandwich on french bread was deloosh, as was the polenta. i kinda liked the small town cafe, no frills feel. and my lunch buddy kinda liked the argentinian boy workinf there. but she's a sucker for the aregentines. nah, she's just a sucker period. yea, ya herd, sucka!

ron mexico

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:56 -0600

Fair enough. It's just a shame that the post opened with it, since the excerpt in the RSS feed only has the first 3 paragraphs. The disjointed opening takes away from what's otherwise an enjoyable review, and one RSS subscribers might not bother to click through to.

John

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:51:07 -0600

Although it's nitpicking, I have to agree with Ron. I think it's more likely we are comfortable with mexican food because there is so much of it, not that there is so much of it because we are comfortable with it. Seems like a stupid thing to question the article for though.

eliz. s.

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:39:59 -0600

That spinach empanada sounds heavenly. Too bad I don't hang out very often in South Austin.

ron mexico

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:50:44 -0600

You called out Mexican food, not me.

shannon

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:13:03 -0600

So are the more common Chinese and Italian food restaurants directly related to all the Chinese and Italians we have in Austin? And with all the German heritage that exists, why are there so few German restaurants in any place except Fredricksburg?

ron mexico

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:22:06 -0600

I'm sure the high number of Mexican restaurants in Austin has nothing to do with: - the large number of Mexican people and people of Mexican descent in Austin - Austin's proximity to Mexico - the historical influence of Mexico on Texas, its culture, and indeed, it's cuisine