Texican BBQ Company — Restaurant in Brownsville

Updated for 2025 We gave this place another chance because our normal spot was closed. Let me just say, I am glad we did. I got the brisket tacos. I WILL say the tortillas are always swimming in grease, so I ask for them on the side. The armadillo balls are my absolute favorite. The sweet potato was fantastic, as well as the black beans. I don't prefer the Mac and cheese, but my husband enjoys it, and he enjoys the cheesy potatoes while I'm not a fan. My husband usually gets the dino rib, and he loves it. I've tried the Texas Twinkie twice, once in store, and it was great, and once on Uber eats. The Uber eats delivery the pepper barely had any meat, it was flat and sad. I think this depends on who is in the kitchen. I've ordered delivery from here on numerous occasions, and that was really the only complaint I had besides the extreme amount of grease, which granted does not happen every time. It's probably whoever is in the kitchen. Oh, and their banana pudding is good. Original review I'm actually disappointed I spent money here for the food we got. We love BBQ, all kinds and types. We ordered the pulled pork sandwich with corn and bacon mac and cheese , and the brisket sandwich with mashed potatoes and bacon mac and cheese. First off, the pretzel bun was better than any of the other food we received, which is sad. The pulled pork was not pulled. It was an emulsified mass of oil and no flavor. There should at least be texture to pulled pork. This was more like pork floss in some super greasy red sauce that had no flavor. The corn was undercooked and only tasted sour. The mac and cheese. Literally tasted like boiled pasta and nothing else. The brisket sandwich was passable, but it had no flavor and was dry. The mashed potatoes were liquidly and stringy at the same time. Overall, it was strange, flavorless, and exceedingly overpriced. I'm not sure if people hype this place up because of their social media presence or the sense that the establishments gives off that it is a great place to eat. As a couple who go out to find good food and review it honestly, we can say you would be wasting your money going here. We were both extremely disappointed. We won't...

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Fourth edit: I'm glad my review caught your attention, but how about fixing the issues instead? If you put half as much effort into improving your restaurant as you do into writing snarky replies.

Third Edit: So talking with my coworkers, this were their respones.

"The pork belly is more like carnitas from stripes" "They didnt honor their 2 for 20 promotion for 3 ocassions" "Its not brisket, its barbacoa, the barbacoa from stripes is better from 2 people" "Parking sucks"

Second Edit: So about thinking about it this place sucks.

Hey Manager, please dont cheap out and use a gum sized of gorilla tape to hold up your decoration, and if your workers didnt tell you then thats a problem.

First Review: So its alot of food for what you pay for. Overall decoration is nice. Its prob better for to go. Bbq food was.... ok... i mean, it taste like a little too salty and heavily seasoned

Hibuscus sweet tea and lemonade was fine.

Negatives: -pork belly tacos are more like carnitas (yes same meat are but different cooking method. And was hard to eat since it was very bulky) -was calmly eating and a picture frame falls on my fiances arm, and the frame breaks on the floor they did not clean the frame well, nor atleast apologize that this happened.

Recommendation not to sit near the picture frames since theyre held up with tape.

I dont mean for this to be a negative comment, this is just what I...

Update/Response x2: You BBQ owners get so salty. Good riddance to ever coming here, really not worth the drive and time to be wasting in this little 2nd rate honky tonk drive thru 😂 I was updating some reviews and saw that motor mouth narcissistic owner running his mouth. Looks like you need to improve your business, quality and customer service. Good luck to this "business".

No thank you. Your bum cook shouldn't have allowed it to happen in the 1st place. I meant when I said you lost a loyal customer.

Extremely disappointed in this place and I come at least twice a month here for the last year more or less. I paid $30 for a dino rib full of fat and grease (pic below for proof), hardly decent meat. Last time I come here for sure. I should have been suspicious when I was told they needed to check if there was any dino ribs left. Once I got the plate, I was shocked, the rib was slightly smaller than usual and heavily seasoned to give the illusion it had meat. I had to dig through the it to find any decent meat. One thing I do not like is inconsistency and this is a prime example. Ended up throwing the plate away as it was completely inedible and just terrible. FB page and owner sure rambles and hypes up the place for nothing. I would have rather been told they were sold out and got something else than get scammed on that pathetic plate. On the plus side, the service is always great and friendly. This is no reflection of the wonderful staff that...