Texas Tequila Establishments

[buzzjoy]

Hey yall, I am your newest member from Austin, Texas. There are many good places to drink tequila here, but let me start with just one:

Manuel's Mexican Restaurants (http://www.manuels.com/)

Manuel's has two locations here in Austin, one on Congress Ave. (downtown near the Capitol) and one in the north part of town on Jollyville Rd. Both feature a wonderful menu of mexican food and some excellent tequila and margarita drinking. I will stick to the tequila since that is the theme of this forum.

Manuel's bar has a nice range of premium tequilas available, and borrowing a feature from wine bars, they offer the tequilas in "flights". For $6.50 to $10 depending on the brand, you get a small shot each of a brand's blanco, reposado, and anejo tequilas. They are served straight up, but they do offer to chill if you would like that (I don't). I have tried flights of Tesoro, Corazon, and Espolon tequilas there, and it is a cost effective and enjoyable way to multiply your tasting. I am hoping they will start to offer "vertical flights" soon, such as three different blancos.

Manuel's also offers a variety of excellent margaritas for those who like their tequila in mixed drinks. The house margarita is made with fresh squeezed lime but unfortunately an undistinguished mixto well tequila, but it is better than the top shelf margaritas I have had at many other places. They also offer a number of higher end margaritas and some flavored margaritas. One of the most interesting flavored margaritas uses the tuna (red fruit) from prickly pear catus to produce a reddish/pink margarita with a distinctive non-citrus edge to it. Of course, they also have regular and flavored frozen margaritas for those addicted to brain freeze.

So next time you are in Austin, visit Manuel's and enjoy some great tequila and great food in a nice atmosphere. You should try to make the Sunday brunch with live music on the patio at the Jollyville location. Or try the daily 4 PM to 7 PM happy hour with drink specials and half price appetizers (try the venison chorizo gorditas with mole sauce!).

con mucho gusto, Buzz

[MrAgave]

Originally Posted by buzzjoy

One of the most interesting flavored margaritas uses the tuna (red fruit) from prickly pear catus to produce a reddish/pink margarita with a distinctive non-citrus edge to it.

That sound like a good drink. Welcome to the site and the forums. You can submit manuels.com to our restaurant links as well under Tequila Links.

[buzzjoy]

I checked out the Links page and found some great spots to try when I travel, but I did not see how to add a new link? Any help?

con mucho gusto, Buzz

[MrAgave]

When you are logged in, go to the home page and you will see a user menu halfway down on the left hand side. I believe the user menu shows up on other pages as well, but obviously it is not noticable. I'll either move it to the top of the left hand column or change the background color to hopefully elimintate the problem.

Give it a shot.

[Tequila Joe]

I accidentally posted a Texas topic as well before seeing this one. Please feel free to check out the other topic as well. Sorry for the inconvience.

[Rosco]

welcome, thanks for the lowdown in austin, i might actually be in that area for the memorai day weekend, going to the guadalupe river, so we'll be around there and of course the san marcos outlets, my wife has been bugging me for awhile. but we'll stop by, planning on going to margarita's in downtown San Antonio also, love that place, their food is awesome.