Austinist: Austin Bites: Maru, Buenos Aires Cafe

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:23:13 -0600

Those photos are pretty bad. How about some pictures of the food? And I would love to see Austinist review NEW restaurants or advise us of upcoming openings.

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:00:23 -0600

Tomt- Check out their website above. Under the menu link, there is a link to Lunch Bowls. That lunch list also has some sushi specials on it. I'm not sure if the prices for individual pieces (2 for $4.50 at dinner) drop for lunch time though.

tomt

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:04:10 -0600

#11 - Is the pricing @ Maru the same @ lunch and dinner, or is lunch discounted? Just wondering.

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:59:32 -0600

#9 - Maru is almost always close to empty for lunch. On the flipside, the past 2 Fridays for dinner.. there have been lines out the door at 8pm and later.

danimal

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:23:05 -0600

Try the J-Bombs at Maru. I totally forget what's in them but they're fantastic.

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:08:45 -0600

We had lunch at Maru yesterday and were quite concerned that we were the only people there. I had a caterpillar roll, which was excellent, and my husband had the sushi lunch -- the fish looked very fresh, and it was a lot of food for $13. MUCH better than Uchi.

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:01:14 -0600

Buenos Aires Cafe is also the place to go for a traditional yerba mate. The tea is mixed up in a hollow gourd and sucked out through a metal straw that filters the tea leaves.

shilli

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:02:18 -0600

The food other than sushi at Maru is also good - the Katsu Don and Tempura Udon in particular are super tasty.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:51:52 -0600

word of the day: atrocious: adj. 1] shockingly bad or tasteless; dreadful; abominable like yer comments, jerkoffs. start your own effing restaurant!

thomasist

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:36:15 -0600

Mmmm, maru, some of the best unagi in town. To expand on the corking charge, that's 5 per table, not per bottle, and with a two bottle maximum. At 3 or more bottles, the corking fee moves to 10 per table. Still not too shabby.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:32:20 -0600

http://austinmaru.com/ You're welcome.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:31:35 -0600

i'm not impressed. the coffee was no good, the empanadas greasy, they were closed on sunday..... plus parking is atrocious, patrons always park on the sidewalk area and as a neighbor i have an awful time seeing around the cars or riding past on my bike. They should extend the patio and market to the multitude of pedestrians/cyclists that pass by, imo.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:22:09 -0600

The service at Buenos Aires, while friendly, can often be atrocious, especially when they are busy. I have had 2 hour lunches there before, and not the "we're slowly enjoying the relaxed Latinesque enjoyment of a long lunch," but in the "we have been here 20 minutes and nobody has said a word, and why did it take 40 minutes to make a sandwich" way. The food is good, but the service makes me very leary any time i go in or think of going in.

ttrentham

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:09:02 -0600

We liked it too. It's nice to see they're maintaining the quality and that they're still around after more than a year. A good sign.