Taco More — Restaurant in Austin

I would like to give this place a better rating just because this is my first visit here and I only ordered a couple breakfast tacos to go. I can say however, customer service was pretty dang amazing and service was fast.

Let me begin with exiting my car when arriving at this establishment. I arrived early in the morning and the first thing I notice right away are the cars already parked there with hungry customers piling in the place. This is typically a good sign. The restaurant itself was a bit dark, could use more lighting for sure. I was greeted from a very sweet hostess with a welcoming smile and I proceeded to ask about take out orders. She answered promptly and nicely and then took my order.

While waiting for my food, I noticed that they have a patio area across from the entrance. Its a rather large patio and they provide a couple fire stands to help take the chill out of the air. This patio area is nice, it was clean and well maintained with - considering the location, pretty good views.

I ordered the Egg with Bacon and Egg with Chorizo breakfast tacos, both of which I added avocado for a small extra charge. Even though the dining room was busy - not packed, but certainly buzzing with hungry and satisfied customers, my order was ready pretty quickly. While waiting I had a chance to gaze over this salsa bar I read about from previous mixed reviews. I asked someone else which one was the hottest salsa as my tolerance for heat has decreased recently, she pointed to one of the green ones - so I stayed away from that one. I chose two of the red ones and the other green one, put some in the provided styrofoam containers and left to head home.

I was ready to tear into some breakfast tacos once I arrived home, and eagerly tasted the salsas I brought with me. Sad to say - I am disappointed. The red ones, hot as fire may I add, were not impressive flavor wise..nothing to wow about or even want to try again. The green salsa, and I am a huge green salsa fan, tasted better than the red - and yes, hotter than fire as well, was still disappointing. The flavors were just bland, except the heat from the spice. Heat can be good, but heat or no heat - there needs to be better flavor to it. I wonder how hot that other green salsa was then if these were not as hot as that one...

Let's get to the tacos. I ordered them on corn tortilla because in my opinion corn tortillas are the only way to go for good tacos, which they double up per taco. The avocado I ordered extra was a nice amount for the quarter extra I paid, it was fresh with no bruises or dark spots and this is December. So for the fresh avocado I am impressed. The eggs were scrambled in a pan, real eggs - not egg beaters... least they look real to me. They put a generous amount of bacon on the taco and this was chopped up into pieces and pretty good, meaty bacon not all fat like so many other places serve and cooked crispy. The chorizo taco was more disappointing, not much on the taco and it was super salty.

The breakfast tacos were meh in my opinion and I really wanted to give a better review with more stars. The salsas though are pretty much a deal beaker for me, I am a huge salsa fan and I don't understand providing this awesome salsa bar, which consists of about 4 salsas and various condiments, if the salsas themselves are not good.

I want to try this place again as there are soo many good reviews, I plan to go for lunch or dinner next time and try the soup and other tacos. I hear wonderful things about the soups there and this is...

I don't know what these people are talking about. This place is NOT good. Here's the ONLY props I give them: their menus are pretty modern looking. The whole place is pretty modern -looking. OR it's just cheap and looks modern from its frugality masquerading as "modern minimalism". Either way, it doesn't work if you're looking for a good restaurant experience. My BIGGEST and first gripe: they have very FEW people who speak English. I swear, I'm not exaggerating. As I came in, all 3 servers who were hanging out behind the bar instead of greeting people at the entrance, spoke Spanish to me. I responded in English, and they still spoke Spanish. As I sat with my companion, the server comes over and she takes our order in Spanish. I quickly say that we don't speak Spanish, and she tries to take our drink order. Afterwards, a young man comes over and takes our order, telling us that he's taking over because he's the only one who speaks English. This is unacceptable. We are NOT on a border town, and while there sure are a lot of Hispanic demographics in the area, this is still an English-speaking. And even if you have a mexican food restaurant, you ARE still, most definitely expected to speak the language. So this aside, let's talk about the food. The house salsa, which I believe, and I think most people would agree, is supposed to be a staple of your restaurant. This salsa is way too hot, dry, and not palatable. It's the absolute worst house salsa I've ever had. I'd be surprised if anyone can stomach two bites of chips dipped in it. I ordered the "fajita tacos", which according to their menu and the server, it's the closest thing this place has to "carne asada tacos". For an "authentic mexican food place", to not have carne asada tacos as one of your staples is odd. The food came out "not hot", so within minutes, it went cold. It was also disappointingly plain, with each taco having only onions and cilantro. It must tasted BLAND. The other dish was a medley of sorts, with cheese, steak, tomatoes, and onions, made into a pile of food. And even THAT was bland. With the terrible service, I have no choice but to give this a 1 star. 2 stars would suggest I'm willing to return and give it another shot. I see no absolute reason to make my way back here,...

The Staff is not bilingual. Every question we asked, we had to repeat to someone who supposedly knew English. The chips and salsa came right away but no one could tell us if the salsa was hot or mild. No napkin or silverware till the meals came and we received 2 sets even though there were 3 of us. The young bilingual waitress' answer to every question was "I'll ask". We requested Daiquiris and were told the bartender was either coming in or had left at 1:30. It was not clear. It comes out of a machine and you add the flavor but I guess no one can use the machine except the bartender. = lost revenue. She suggested Sangria which turned out to be a soda in a bottle. They understood Corona and didnt need the bartender to serve it, or maybe they do since the second one came without a lime. didn't get everything we ordered = lost revenue . After ordering we only saw the waitress after we ate = lost revenue. The waitress also did not check on us after the food came. We requested an extra plate do we could share the meal. We flagged down another waitress yo get that. We asked for a soft taco to be substututed for a hard one, she said yes then we got a side order of soft tortillas with the hard shell one. I would have ordered dessert and one of the Sangria soda but couldn't find our waitress = lost revenue. The food was cold, tasteless and stale, A manager came over but with their limited English it made no sense to tell her about all the issues. Everyone does everything there, no one is assigned to particular tasks = mass confusion. The item we never received was on our bill after we brought it to the waitress' attention and she said she'd have it taken off. When we asked her about it she said she told the cashier who told her to "wait". 😦 This place needs ...