CATRINA'S TACOS & MARGARITAS — Restaurant in Austin

I have been looking for a Mexican restaurant closer to my house for a while. I accidentally came across this one when getting Papa John’s pizza.

First, when we entered the restaurant it was not busy and a staff member politely said sit anywhere you want. He then grabbed some menus and took our drink order. So far, looking good!

I know it’s not a big deal around here but we lived somewhere else for a while and fell in love with white queso dip, this is the first place in Austin that we found it at. I eat at 5-6 times a week so that’s a big statement. It needed some milk to thin it up a little as within 5 minutes it was so thick it was no longer that great. But with a little milk it would have been amazing.

Also, it’s hard to find chimichangas around here which I find weird. This place has them and they are big, filled with chicken. That said, they added some kind of cheese inside that was so thick you couldn’t get it chewed up to swallow. Kinda ruined it imho. A lot of places around here make enchiladas with that same type of cheese, I’m not a fan of gaging on unchewable cheese so es lo que es. Without that cheese in it and with the white queso on top this would be a killer changa.

Chips were just ok. I prefer warm chips that are super fresh. The place we have been eating for years now has super warm fresh chips, I love that. Salsa was actually really good. I liked it better than my usual place.

My son had their burger. He is pretty picky so when he said he didn’t like it we were suspect, but my wife likes everything and she also thought it tasted weird. The bacon tasted fine, the meat was fine, but the bun had some strange taste. Not sure what is was but nobody wanted it and it got tossed barley half eaten.

Gordita was good, nothing special. Maybe a different meat? Try chicken if we come back.

Beans and rice were not fresh at all and not that tasty. Hoping for better next attempt.

Price was average for local restaurants.

In closing, I bet they will modify the chimichanga for me and my wife liked it and wants to try more things. So, we will come back and give it another go. Update when we do. It’s definitely worth a go as everyone...

The servers and owner are very sweet, but my rating is based on my experience. I went on a saturday and ordered a drink while i waited for my friend to show up, and the margarita was pretty good. When my friend came in, we placed our food order and got more drinks. We waited quite a while for our food and I noticed that other people who ordered way after us got their food orders to their table before we even did. I was being pretty patient and at some point I started to get impatient because I had to be somewhere. The server finally came to our table maybe an hour after we ordered and they mentioned that they're short staffed, which I was very understanding of and waited around another 20ish minutes and decided to just go ahead and cancel my food order because I was needing to go somewhere else and it was just taking way too long and they mentioned that the food was about to come out in 3 minutes, but i still wanted my order cancelled. They were very apologetic and gifted us a Margarita to go. I left hungry lol, but that was my experience and I do plan on checking them out again when I'm not in some sort of rush, but i did plan it out to be able to leave in a timely manner. They did mention that the kitchen had lost my order ticket in the process of all of this. But I really enjoyed the margaritas, which is why I'm willing to give them...

We had the weirdest experience with this restaurant. Our first red flag is that we went on a Sunday and there was no one in the restaurant, after we got seated only one other couple came in. Right away we got Chips and salsa, (The chips are store bought tortilla chips.) and the waitress was doing a great job but when we ordered the food, a lot of orders were messed up and the waitress would laugh it out as her mistake. We told her if she could give us tortillas cause some of the plates came with it but she never did. We laughed it out but the waitress became so serious and we are sorry if we made her feel bad but she was not putting in the orders correctly and she wasn't doing her job. Keep in mind, there was only one other couple in the whole restaurant. I do have to say the restaurant is decorated beautifully. The food was pretty good but I would just train the waitress to be light and not to give a serious attitude. Even though this happened, I would...