{"id":381,"date":"2015-01-26T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=381"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"truly-tex-mex-on-riverside-cheap-fast-and-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Truly Tex-Mex on Riverside. Cheap, Fast, and Delicious."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am from South Texas and I know great Mexican food. While there are\u00a0a lot of Mexican food restaurants in Austin, I often long for the particular flavor and style of South Texas cooking that I grew up\u00a0with. With the help of a friend who is in the know, I have found it!\u00a0<a title=\"El Taquito\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eltaquito.com\/inicio2\/\">El Taquito<\/a> on East Riverside (not far from I35). Mind you, the place is certainly low-brow, but the food is as genuine as it comes. Dirt cheap too. For the crowd that needs food after the bewitching hour, it is open late. \u00a0The queso fundido is a must (add meat).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am from South Texas and I know great Mexican food. While there are\u00a0a lot of Mexican food restaurants in Austin, I often long for the particular flavor and style of South Texas cooking that I grew up\u00a0with. With the help of a friend who is in the know, I have found it!\u00a0El Taquito on East Riverside (not far from I35). Mind you, the place is certainly low-brow, but the food is as genuine as it comes. Dirt cheap too. For the crowd that needs food after the bewitching hour, it is open late. \u00a0The queso fundido is a must (add meat). &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,9],"tags":[7,106,105,108,107],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dining","category-entertainment","category-night-clubs","tag-austin","tag-austin-tex-mex","tag-cheap-mexican-food","tag-el-taquito","tag-riverside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}