Torchy's Tacos

My catchphrase should be: "Your favorite Nurse Bae food blogger."

The majority of my posts on here are about food.

*insert nervous emoji sweating and smiling*

After a long day of walking around Austin, hunting for murals I saw on Pinterest, a young thug was hungry!

This was my first meal of the day because I decided to stay in bed and watch Netflix instead of going to brunch. Read as: The place I really wanted to go required reservations and only serves brunch on the weekends. (It was a Friday.)

Side note: When traveling alone it's very hard to motivate myself to eat. I walked all over Seattle one day until it was dark before I decided I should probably eat something. A travel buddy = a food accountability partner.

The place wasn't terribly packed when I got there but as I was finishing my meal it filled up! (There's a middle school across the street that had just let out for the day.)

This isn't your traditional sit-down restaurant. You order at the register, take a number and they bring your meal out to you when it's ready. Think CiCi's pizza, kind off, sort of, not really.

I was overwhelmed with choices which is never a bad thing.

I told myself to pick a reasonable number of tacos. I also told myself I could always make a trip back before the end of my vacation to try other tacos.

I never made that second trip.

In hindsight, I wish I would have gotten 4 tacos instead. I also wish I would have come back for a second meal. When I travel I typically eat less because I don't like carrying around leftovers. It's a combination of that and the AirBNBs I stay in never have refrigerators in the room. (I feel weird going into other people's refrigerators.)

What I ordered:

Mr. Orange (Blackened salmon, grilled corn, black bean relish, cojita cheese, cilantro, lime wedge, avocado sauce on a corn tortilla)
Brushfire (Jamaican jerk chicken, grilled jalapenos, mango, sour cream, cilantro with diablo sauce on a flour tortilla)
Baja Shrimp ( hand-battered fried shrimp, cabbage slaw, pickled onions, jalapenos, cojita cheese, cilantro, lime wedge, chipotle sauce on any tortilla of choice.)
Street corn (corn topped with ancho aioli, cojita cheese, cilantro, red chile powder and a lime wedge.) This tasted like corn straight out of the can. I like crunchy corn and all the corn I got was deflated, for lack of a better word.

I enjoyed the Brushfire taco the most! I ate it last because it looked the safest + in case I didn't like the other tacos I wanted to make sure I ended with something satisfying. This also had a nice kick to it. It wasn't spicy to the point I couldn't enjoy it. I also automatically love anything with sour cream.

The avocado sauce on Mr. Orange was very tasty. I'm not usually a fan of avocado "things".

I'm not a fan of fried shrimp but I decided to give it a second chance. The shrimp on the Baja taco tasted rubbery. I wish I would have asked if grilled shrimp was an option.

Overall, almost everything tasted fresh! I definitely prefer corn tacos, tastes more authentic. The portion sizes were hefty which I can always appreciate! I'd pick this over Moe's or any other chain "Tex-Mex" restaurant. However, I'd still pick authentic "street style" tacos over this any day. I wouldn't order the corn again. And I'd get a fountain drink because who doesn't love free refills? I definitely recommend checking this place out if you're ever in Austin or Texas!

Bonus: They also have breakfast tacos!

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