Oasis Mexican Cafe — Restaurant in San Antonio

"Amarillo by morning". . . a perfect song for completing a breakfast taco run to this canary yellow painted restaurant. I would also offer "Midnight at the Oasis" as another attribute capturing song title, but this is a typical taqueria with a witching hour of 2 pm.

Parking is a Rubick's Cube activity finding that three sides of the property are actually numbered slots for public pay parking. After a couple of circumnavigations and u-turns the final solution came via one of five or so spots parking on the street in front of the restaurant. How are your parallel parking skills?

Shut the front door, the back door and the shutters! The menu prices read like what you get with a 50% discount from Mexican food restaurants with a more northerly latitude.

Mostly some good basic Tex-mex. Chip service was a flimsy, 5 and 10 cent store (what's that!), dayglo green, plastic bowl of a few, almost fresh chips. The 2 enchi 2 puffy, guac, rice / beans plate broke the bank at $8. The puffies were about 5 psi low, but I will definitely not bother checking for a leak at that price.

Not the same owner as the other Oasis on Main street. As many "decamesas" (what we call dives and cafes having 10 tables or less) as we have been to it seems there is...

I suggested this place to a friend of mine since we were in the area. We ordered the lunch plates and a sweet tea. First impression, the plates were super small, the rice was dry and hard. It seemed to have been re heated in a microwave. The "sweet tea"..more like semi sweet watered down. Not even mid way through our flavorless meal, my friend started complaining of pain and the feeling of a razor being stuck in her throat. She stood up panicky, grabbed a napkin and coughed out a long, thin, sharp bone (at least an inch and a half) 😱 I was shocked! We waved down our waiter who stated " it says theres bones in the menu". We were then approached by a manager. I showed him the napkin with the bloody bone and he too pointed out the fact that their menu mentions bones. Mind you, my friend was eating a tiny puffy taco! No apology or anything. He simply walked off. We were initially planning on paying separate checks but i could not let her pay after almost dying. The same manager cashed us out. Our bill together came out to only $11. It amazed me that he was still able to charge us. We left disappointed and hungry. If you do decide on giving this place a shot, keep in mind that you are responsible for your own death. And will get...

Came here on a Sunday with my partner. I got the migas plate, potato and egg taco, and a picadillo taco. She got the cheese enchiladas and a carne guisada with cheese. We’ll start with the fact that when we asked for chips and queso the server said they were out of chips, understandable and cool with that. It happens in the industry. BUT, about 10 minutes later the table next us who had a different server order chips and queso and didn’t run into a problem of them being out.

We received our food, the corn tortillas in the Megas seemed to have been put in a frier then made with the eggs. The potato and eggs were drier than a sunflower in the desert. They seemed to have been sitting under a heat lamp since open. The picadillos was the only salvation of my own breakfast.

My girlfriends enchiladas were flavorless, close to eating cardboard. The tortillas weren’t fully cooked and gravy was like flour and water mixed with some salt and pepper. The carne guisada was pretty good though, the only pretty palatable...