
Those of you who still aren't over last season's Real World: Austin can now finally hang out inside the warehouse space used to house the over-sexed, under-medicated twenty-somethings: Colorado-based Mexican restaurant chain Rio Grande is taking up residency at 301 San Jacinto starting this Saturday, alongside various and sundry props that appeared on the show. Like a purported 17-foot neon sign screaming "BIG TEX." Good gaud!
Oddly enough, this makes it the first of Rio Grande's Tex-Mex eateries to actually reside in Texas. Although a brief glance at their menu didn't register anything particularly extraordinary (breakfast burritos?), our curiosity for kitsch, sadly, will likely compel us to try 'em out. What's worse, we missed every episode of the reality series -- luckily for us, former editor Ben Brown didn't; you can catch his chronicles here.

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The Rio Grand has the BEST margaritas in Colorado. They have a neon light flashing "Limit 3" over the bar, and they are not kidding. That place can get dangerous.
yea, and chotsky's has the best whale blubber in arizona.