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About Maudie's Milagro
Maudie's Cafe had a couple of generations of history and featured home style cooking by the time Joe first met Maudie Hamilton Wilson. Maudie served home cookin to the Austin politicos, families, neighborhoods, and O'Henry students. Started in 1954, Maudie's Cafe was 810 sq ft of yum - serving biscuits and gravy, chicken and dumplings, and cold beers. Maudie planned to close down her restaurant as she had become homebound, but as fate would have it, Joe Draker walked into Maudie's life looking to rent the house next door and walked out with a handshake deal to buy the cafe. Turning from homestyle to Tex-Mex in 1993 with the instrumental guidance from Roe and Pete Hernandez along with their brother, Jorge Arredondo, Joe, crew, and the customers have turned Maudie's Tex-Mex into an Austin Icon, a Tex-Mex family staple serving multiple generations. Maudie's Tex-Mex has been serving up tried and true Tex-Mex for 25 years. With seven area locations, our goal is to bring the best of Tex-Mex to a neighborhood near you. Hand prepared dishes and fresh-squeezed juices daily, we select natural proteins and organic, local, farm fresh eggs because we take healthy eating to heart alongside flavor and tradition. Quintessential Tex-Mex for today's Austin.
Reviews about Maudie's Milagro
It's worth your time to eat here.
When I first moved here, I actually ate here (Westlake location) 5 times in one week. The salsa is very good if you can stand some heat. Everything I have ordered was very good with exception to only a 2 star rating on their fish tacos when I tried them. The prices are quite reasonable for being in a high rent area.
Re: "Chilli Dog Enchaladas"
Maudie's has never billed itself as a "Mexican" restaurant. Look at the titles in this listing. Maudie's has always been a "Tex-Mex" restuarant. And the ENCHILADA (from Spanish "enchilar" = "to add chili pepper to", not "enchalada") topped with chili con carne (beef chili) is pretty much the quintessential Tex-Mex dish. In the 1940s and 50s my grandfather used the recipes beloved by his family and friends as the foundation for a small restaurant in south Texas. The most fundamental and favored menu item was the enchilada topped with chili. But when times were very tough and beef was a luxury, such as during World War II, my grandfather might have to forego homemade chili and make do with canned Wolf brand. It wasn't haute cuisine, and was never meant to be. It was affordable, satisfying food beloved by south Texans. Call it poor man's food, call it comfort food, but it is basic Tex-Mex, and Maudie's does it very well.
Really good Tex-Mex, great spot
We do love the setting and porch here even if it is crawling with some people cheesier than the food served! Ha, always a wait usually made 10x better with the fantastic margaritas. Perfect for families, groups or just 2. Maudie's has quite a few great plates on their menu although some duds and inconsistent but with that kind of traffic...well better then most.\t\nStaff works hard to take care of you, they have on more than one occassion changed things up for my picky wife!
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