Brazas Taco House — Restaurant in Austin

First time here and I ordered to go as I was on lunch at work. The menu choices are different types of tacos - more than the typical variety. I am a huge Taco fan!

When I picked up my order, which was ready when it was supposed to be, I drove up to an older building - maybe this could be on Diners, Drive ins, and Dives! The dining area is rather large, larger than the outside of the place indicates it would have been. It took a few minutes for someone to come up to the counter and I am not sure if he was very busy or not having a bad day - I felt like I was interrupting something by being there. No smiles - just a kind of growl look about him. Although he spoke to me nicely, it was a put off for sure. The place was quite empty but I am not sure if something else was going on to make him look so preoccupied.

When I arrived back at work, I eagerly opened up these nicely wrapped tacos ready to tear into them as I was very hungry. I ordered:

Koenig Taco Breakfast : This delicious migas taco is probably one of the best I have had in Austin. They do not skimp on portions for sure and those corn tortillas are as delicious as the previous reviews stated they were. They did not skimp on the cheese either - it was melty and yummy. Hands down, one of the best Migas tacos EVER.

Lamar Taco Breakfast: I recently started to enjoy cactus in my breakfast tacos and around Austin, the quality of cactus is not consistent. When I tried this taco I was relieved to taste the cactus was absolutely amazing - perfectly cooked. Again - they were very generous with the portions. The quality was very good and again, the corn tortilla to die for.

Red Sauce: I was thinking that I would get something closer to a table salsa, I was wrong. The salsa given out for tacos is not the garden variety table salsa i am use to and I must say - it was disappointing. The red sauce tastes heavily seasoned with chilis, more of an earthy taste. I prefer fresher salsas.... less is more sometimes.

Green Sauce: The garden variety smooth light green salsa that so many taco places in austin serves with their tacos. I was pleasantly pleased to find it was not overly powering in heat and actually have more flavor than spice. This was actually better than the red.

I will definitely be back, not sure about dining in though, but I would like to try other menu...

While Brazas is not making my top tacos list, their offerings are okay and pretty filling. The green sauce was pretty tasty and spicy and really helped make the tacos much better than they were without it.

We had 4 tacos total, two each and it filled us up. Farmers Market, Be Safe, Highland, and Lake Travis.

The Farmers market is a vegetarian taco. I would have liked the zucchini to be a little more cooked. It needed a lot of sauce to make it favorable.

Be Safe is also a vegetarian taco. This was completely stuffed and is quite tasty and filling.

Highland was basic chicken fajita. The seasoning was okay and it needed a lot of green sauce to give it that oomph!

Lake Travis is a fish taco. It looked better than it tasted unfortunately. The tilapia didn't seem like it was the freshest quality and the sauce over it looked wonderful but was quite bland.

What really made experience change from decent/okay to kinda negative is the tiny insects all around the booths by the entrance. We switched tables twice before we got to a table that didn't have any visible bugs nearby.

Between the bugs, the questionable quality of some of the ingredients, prices coming close to Taco Deli prices, and the plethora of taco places in Austin, I just don't think I will be coming back...

So good!!!

I went here because the Korean place next door didn’t have anyone who spoke English and I sat waiting for 10 minutes and I just left and went next door to Brazas.

There was a bit of a wait to get the order taken, no one was at the register, but as there was one front of house guy to take and run orders so it’s understandable.

All of my food was nice and hot when I got it so it more than made up for delay in getting my order. One of my BIGGEST pet peeves of a restaurant is getting served lukewarm or cold food. This was yummy and hot and just what I wanted. I’m from south Texas and trying to find a place that doesn’t have all that trendy taco stuff is hard here in Austin, but I found one that...