Taqueria Guadalajara

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this place. I always come here for the lemonade. If you’re super hungry they give you alot of food and it is great quality. It is hard to find a REALLY good mexican restaurant in austin but this place definitely meets my expectations. I get the tortilla soup, the Carne asada, or the tacos. It’s a sweet spot not too far from my house and I’d recommend it for breakfast lunch and dinner. It’s worth trying it for yourself. The staff is super friendly and since we’ve gone there multiple times they remember us. Great staff, great food.

Overall I was glad I came here, probably an 8.75÷10. Service was good and the waitress was a good sport when I tried to half-​assedly order in Spanish. The wait staff was polite and I liked the $ 2.50 HH Coronas as well as the $ 2 tacos and free chips and salsa. They have Micheladas for $ 3.75 at HH (I think), so if you like those, I think you’d like it. I wouldn’t mind returning in the future.

My favorite Mexican restaurant! Great food at a very reasonable price (try the enchiladas veracruzanas). Very friendly and helpful staff, amazing micheladas and the occasional mariachi serenade. What’s not to love? Olé!

Regresé pero a desayunar y no puedo negar que esta vez el servicio y la comida estuvieron bien. Me atendió un mesero muy amable y comí el plato de miga y queso para dip con nachos, estuvo muy rico.

Love everything about this place. Service has always been great and food is amazing.
Fresh salsas and hand squeezed limonade.
Plus their deals for breakfast are unbeatable. I always get the 3 breakfast tacos or the migas. A must try.

I love this place. It’s been a while since I’ve been, but it hasn’t changed. The quality of the food is beyond good, and just dang tasty.
The interior is pretty big, and the atmosphere appropriate for a Mexican restaurant. Spanish music playing on the jukebox with families eating Sunday dinner.
I had the burrito plat, which comes with rice and beans, and you have a choice of filling out of like 10 meats! It’s huge and definitely fills the tummy.
If you’re in the Lamar/​Rundberg area, skip the fast food and come to Guadalajara’s. You won’t regret it!
BTW, Unilocal says it’s closed Sunday, but they’re open.

Loved this place. Very nice service. Food tastes amazing and very authentic. Which is hard to find considering most places are tex-​mex style, not here though.

I like that these guys open a 0600. They used to be one of my regular stops for breakfast tacos on the way to work. They have some pretty good breakfast deals on the tacos and they are tasty. They use white cheese on their breakfast tacos, and, it works. I like their sausage, egg & cheese (SEX) and their equivalent with ham (HEX). You can get a breakfast taco and a coffee for under three bucks! That’s a pretty good deal. Sometimes they over cook the eggs which can be a bad offset on the flavor.
The tostada’s are pretty tasty, no complaints there. The tamales are some pitiful shit that makes you wanna slap the poor fool sitting at the table next to you. Seriously. Three tamales with rice and beans for roughly $ 5 sounds like a pretty good deal. Right? Well, in theory it is. The tamales that I got were dreadful. They were so dry (maybe been in the freezer too long?) and had no fucking filling. What I got was 99.9% masa. They should be ashamed of themselves for serving such disappointment. Especially in Austin.
Service here can be a bit of a disappointment. The staff are friendly and all, but, just can’t seem to grasp the concept. Take today for example. We went in and ordered our food. Sidekicks tostada came out a good 10 minutes before my shameful tamales. Good stop for breakfast tacos for sure. Haven’t really danced on the rest of the menu. I like their late hours. Open until 0100 on Fridays and Saturdays!

Service is terrible!
I invited my friend to eat here one day, it was the worst decision ever. We waited about 7 mins to be seated and no one attended us, we decided to give the staff a few more minutes and still no help, not one person acknowledge us. A Mexican couple behind us came in, were immediately acknowledge and seated.
We decided to walk out and I felt so embarrassed I had to apologize to my friend. This place is a fucking joke, I bet most of the staff is illegal.
Never wasting my time here again.

First time and massively impressed. Tasted like it was made with love/​care and skill. Good service, pleasant staff. Salsa and pastor were exceptional. Can’t wait to go back.

Another 5 star restaurant for me…
Love the food here as well… Friendly environment, perfect place to come eat breakfast tacos…
Yummy… them huevos rancheros are damn good…

Great food and service! Real mex food. My burrito was full of cheese and meat. Great ambience and really friendly and helpful staff.

We love this place, the food is great, the prices are perfect, the staff is awesome! We do not like the bump when you come in, but we always go in through the back of the parking lot to avoid it. hehehe
This bump does not diminish the love that me and hubby have for the restaurant. :o)

I went here on a Tuesday night and it was pretty empty. But the food was not bad and neither are the prices
I had the chicken fried chicken which was good with an iceberg lettuce salad, rice and beans.
My friend had the guisado and it was good.
The Chips and salsa are awesome there!
The Mexican coke is expensive since you can get an agua fresca for the same price and 3 times the quantity. Sadly, the agua frescas are made from syrup and are no bueno.
The servers were trying to start their closing duties two hours before closing and it was a bit hard to get their attention at times.
I think the place used to be a Wendy’s

This place is so reasonable, and so delicious. I just had two tacos and three cups of coffee for $ 4.15.

A Little late on the review… and I can’t leave out this great little find using the Unilocal mobile App on the fly… Customer Service was good and we were greeted with chips and 3 types of salsas. We always start with the Queso, and it was no let down. had flavor, and stayed creamy thru out our meal. Salsa’s were good… Watch out for «The Green Bottle»…Deliciously HOT… made my eye sockets sweat… yet could stop trying it. Wife had the beef enchiladas, sauce on the side, which she graciously spooned atop her Chilada’s…I went with the Beef enchiladas with Green Sauce. which sounds like an odd combo but, it’s something I make at home with left over taco meat. Its really good. Charro Beans had a great home made taste… Rice was a little sticky, but still good. Nope, not a bad find at all. I will keep it on the radar.(#66)

Nothing fancy about this place and that’s just how it should be. The focus is in the food which is super flavorful and generously portioned.
The chicken enchiladas, tacos (get the corn tortillas they are superb) and torta were all scrumptious.

My boyfriend and I came here on Saturday night. We had passed it a few times as went to other places on North Lamar. It was always packed, so we decided to try it out on a Saturday night.
My boyfriend had the enchiladas and I had the menudo. I also ordered a tarmarindo juice. The tamarindo juice was fantastic! It tasted fresh and was not overly sweet. My menudo was really good, but it was a bit salty for my taste (NOTE: I don’t put any salt on any of my dishes, so it was probably seasoned right.). The homemade tortillas made both our meals. They weren’t thin and were hot and flavorful. My boyfriend loved his enchiladas.
Overall, this was a great place. We’ll go back.

Had our first and last visit last weekend. First ding: after placing our order, the food took forever to arrive. Unacceptably long. Second ding: I asked for corn tortillas but received flour. Third ding: the food was gross and we all felt quite queasy after we ate just a portion. The cheese enchiladas had very little filling and were covered in a bland, bright orange sauce (supposed to be a red sauce and it wasn’t even close). The gordita was equally bland and dry, dry, dry. Only the guacamole was halfway decent. The beans were a soupy mess. My stomach still churns if I think about this meal.
I enjoyed the musicians who came in and played a song. But when they finished they went from table to table for tips and then they left. We were disappointed, as we would’ve enjoyed more music as we waited the eons for our food.

Guadalajara is our favorite Sunday breakfast food establishment. Every Sunday we have breakfast/​brunch here and I’ve never been disappointed. This last Sunday I had a combo plate with a enchilada de chile verde con pollo, gordita de barbacoa, and a tamale de chile verde con pollo. The gordita was huge and overstuffed. The enchilada was one of the best I’ve tasted here in Austin. It was stuffed with pollo asado. The tamale was great as well. I’m from the Western part of Texas/​Eastern part of New Mexico, and I have not been able to find good Mexican food here. Taqueria more than satisfies my pallette for a Mexican cuisine.
For breakfast, I usually order chilaquiles which are fried corn tortillas smothered in white cheese and chile verde. Delicious. I’ve also eaten the huevos a la Mexicana. Both are super great dishes. One thing I was surprized about was them having tripas. I love tripas which are intestines. They’re so good when they’re a little crispy. Put some salsa on there and you have yourself a fiesta. Barbacoa was filled with flavor as well.

Words and phrases to describe this establishment:
Authentic. Hole-​in-​the-​wall. Clean. Yummy. Filling. Affordable. Gratifying. Toothsome. More Tex than Mex. Calorie-​laden. Cheese-​a-​rific. Filled with heavenly aromas. Bereft of white people, except for me (good sign). Sparky-​spicy.
Words and phrases to describe me after having eaten here:
Full. Satisfied. Fat. Phat. Pleased with my decision. Braggadocious. Buddha-​bellied. Still-​craving. Sucking on the spot on my shirt where I spilled salsa. Quenched. Spent. Exercise-​procrastinating. Nap-​considering… Bleary-​eyed… Sleepy…
…Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…