El Mercado Restaurant

Great Drink Prices and strong tasting. I think what I have to say why I love this place is for their drink prices! Chocolate Martini for $3.50 and super strong?! YES PLEASE! I WILL TAKE 10 OF THEM. Even without their happy hour, their drink prices are not to bad at all! You can get several flavors of Margaritas in two different sizes (for the lighter and heavier drinkers). It is also just a couple of blocks from UT Campus and the At&t Conference Center. What I was impressed with is that they had a seperate Vegitarian Menu. No its not a very large selection but the fact that they had it was much appericiated! Everyone I was with were vegitarian but myself so it made dinner great.

They had a good amount of food on your menu. I would say it was not the greatest but it did it jobs. I ended up with the Botana Platter. It ended up coming with Chicken Fajitas, Some Nachoes, Cheese (with grilled onions and mushrooms) Qusadillas, and queso. It was good but nothing to brag about. For the prices though it was not to shappy! I can not complain!

I would come here again especially for the drinks!…

Worst chili relleno ever. A tex-mex restaurant should not leave the seeds in a stuffed chili relleno. It just shouldn't happen. Austin restaurants have a knack for taking accepted good food and trying something "cool and artsy" which completely destroys the edible element of any dish. If you are going to stuff a chili relleno, take out the seeds and ensure the cheese melts. I was disgusted by the cheese chunks and seeds. If you want good tex-mex, go to San Antonio.…

Blanks for dinner. Okay, so apparently citysearch will not allow to me write a review containing a certain word, (which I find disturbing because I would want to know what I'm about to tell you) so I'll just leave that word to be "blank". Just know that "blank" is code for a certain insect that is disgusting, you get the raid when you see it, they were here before us and they'll probably out live us all. Ok, here goes my original post : this place is ok. I went once and got a a chicken plate of some sorts, felt like I could have made it myself, the sauce was meh. They have really good salsa I hear. But the best thing they have are blanks. Yea, that's right, blanks. My parents were eating lunch, LUNCH, not dinner, so it was the middle of the day in a well lit restaurant, and two baby blanks proceeded to walk across the very table they were eating at. I know stuff like this exists everywhere, back there in the kitchen, but at least it's out of sight, out of mind, and you don't have to look at it while your eating. Baby blanks strolling across your dinner table midway through your meal? Ew. Salsa's good though.…