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3 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

The single biggest...and I mean BIGGEST... mistake I ever made in taking home a casual partner was the result of consuming more than two of their OG Mexican Martinis. I met a buddy and his fiancée and her fat sister for drinks. Fiancée wasn't drinking, but bought her ration of two and let fat sister and me split them (after we each had our two).  Next thing you know I'm giving her the two pump special and hopping across her living room while trying to put my pants on and find my car keys at the same time.

Mistakes can take many forms. 

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2 hours ago, CoTex said:

Wait a minute - you’re saying that there’s no such thing as a bad restaurant - just an ignorant customer?  If I was better informed… I would t order the bad food?

Vehemently disagree.

Also, those martinis sucked too.

 

Nope I’m saying if a place has been around long enough, 1977 in Trudy’s case, there’s a really good chance there’s at least a few things they do well, or did well for a long time.

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21 minutes ago, D_Goose said:

Nope I’m saying if a place has been around long enough, 1977 in Trudy’s case, there’s a really good chance there’s at least a few things they do well, or did well for a long time.

You’re a glass half full guy. Must be nice.

I’m a litmus test guy.  A Tex Mex place should get some things right, no matter what.

Chips

Salsa

Guacamole

Cheese enchiladas

Cold Beer

Frozen margarita

Beef Fajitas

Crispy tacos

If I’m hunting through some white queso dipped pecan stuffed rosemary chicken thigh to find the good stuff at a Tex Mex place, I’m just not.  I’ve already left and won’t return.

Every time I went to Trudy’s it was at the behest of some crowd and likely suggested by some wimmens.  I had good times there but it wasn’t the food or the b.s. Mexican martinis.

 

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5 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

The single biggest...and I mean BIGGEST... mistake I ever made in taking home a casual partner was the result of consuming more than two of their OG Mexican Martinis. I met a buddy and his fiancée and her fat sister for drinks. Fiancée wasn't drinking, but bought her ration of two and let fat sister and me split them (after we each had our two).  Next thing you know I'm giving her the two pump special and hopping across her living room while trying to put my pants on and find my car keys at the same time.

Fly fisherman now, but in a past life…

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Trudy's was a sentimental favorite. My wife worked there in college for a short time so I would go up there often to see her. When we were going down to Austin for UT games when we had season tickets, we'd stop off for postgame Mexican Martinis and she loved the stuffed avocado. RIP

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Scattershooting: 

- The Mexican Martini Challenge was fun. Drink 2 at each of the 3 locations. After completing the challenge, a friend climbed a tree at North Star. His girlfriend, now wife, had to coax him down. Good stuff.

- My dumb ass cousin was a few years older than me. He was raised on a steady diet of Los Tios in Houston, but he bizarrely loved Trudy’s. Every time we visited he wanted to go eat there. He was in a Christian “fraternity” so I shouldn’t have been surprised, but eating at Trudy’s sober was miserable.

- Definitely a chick birthday place as others have noted upthread. Eating at home, and just ordering drinks was the pro move. 
 

- Their food was so shitty I wonder if they would have been better off with a bar food menu only. 1 cook heating up nachos and quesadillas would have been about the same quality with much lower overhead. 
 

- Baby A’s is basically the same and still going strong. Purple ritas must be the secret sauce. 

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38 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Baby A’s is basically the same and still going strong.

they recently closed the location on barton springs and the one at 35 and howard. i believe there are only 2 left in austin. 

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4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

“…. from Hell‘s heart I pump at Thee!”

"He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."

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1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Their food was so shitty I wonder if they would have been better off with a bar food menu only. 1 cook heating up nachos and quesadillas would have been about the same quality with much lower overhead. 

 

Reminds me of El Patio / Club No Minors in Houston.  Dog food on the menu so you drink their margaritas.  Actually, you go for the margaritas but the food is filler to delay the eventual puke.

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I vaguely remember the campus location having this chicken sandwich that I think you could only order from the downstairs bar. It was the size of a fucking frisbee, and fairly affordable so I would swing by to eat those sober even. But mostly we just boozed there and had good times (early-mid 90's). I aint gonna hate on Trudy's. 

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I used to get Trudy’s Enchiladas Caliente which had a New Mexico style green chile sauce which was pretty good. That hasn’t been on the menu for 2 decades.
 

They had some green chile dishes when not many places had those. Those were their menu standouts (I even recall a green chile CFS?). That’s it.
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22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


They had some green chile dishes when not many places had those. Those were their menu standouts (I even recall a green chile CFS?). That’s it.

Yeah you could get green chile on the CFS.  But that's not it.  Their smoked chicken dishes were really good, their tinga relleno was really good, their chorizo-stuffed chicken was really good, their migas were really good, and their chipotle sauce is my all-time favorite and it's saddening that I'll never get to taste it again.

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ciro's special with chicken was always my go-to. they took it off the menu pre-covid and i don't think i ever returned. 

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Marinated chicken or beef fajita meat, smothered in mushrooms, cilantro, onions and Anaheim peppers, topped with chile con queso, spinach, tomatoes and avocado. Served with Spanish Rice and Borracho Beans.

 

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6 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

- Their food was so shitty I wonder if they would have been better off with a bar food menu only. 1 cook heating up nachos and quesadillas would have been about the same quality with much lower overhead. 
 

A lot of places would probably benefit from doing this. Lower food overhead, focus on drink specials and just giving drunk customers some shitty ass food to soak up the alcohol 

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good memories of Trudy's near campus. I'd get the burger on the patio and the migas and fajitas in the restaurant.

i still may have a shirt or two that I can't wash out the cigarette stink from the downstairs bar.

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