Yes We Texican!

I’m so happy that there have been so many elite events in the month of October. I’ve actually had a chance to make 2 of them: Whodunnit at the W, and Yes We Texican!
The night started out with Kelly S greeting us at the door, which is always awesome.
This location was easy for me to find, since it is where the old Trudy’s South was located. I wasn’t the only one to comment on this; another elite and I did some interior design reminiscing and figured out that tonight’s event had seated us in what used to be the upstairs area above the dark and dingy Trudy’s smokers lounge/​bar/​box.
Now that we’d situated ourselves spatially in the new environs, it was time to grab a plate of grub (loved the jalapeño poppers since this is something I would probably not order on my own) and take a seat to enjoy the flight of tequila tasters. I sat at a booth with Robert B. and Jenny L., two elites I was happy to get to know, and had a great night of talking and tasting.
Here’s what we had:
La Morada w/​Dulce Vita Silver
Texican Martini w/​Dulce Vita Silver
Pacifico
Cucumber Margarita
Stuffed Jalapeños
Monterey Migas (Pork)
Quesadilla Compuestas (Chicken and Beef)
Pico de gallo, guacamole and salsa served with chips.
Thanks again to Kelly & Courtney for hosting so many elite events as of late! I loved the goodie bags.
I will definitely return to the Texican soon to use the $ 10 coupon. It’s a great place for family dinners, or to watch sports (people get super excited and start screaming during the games), or to just meet for dinner for one of their nightly specials.

Texican Café is not the new kid on the block, rather that long-​time standby you may sometimes look over because there is a new Tex-​Mex kid in town. Which is why I’m so happy that they decided to host an event so I could remember why I’ve always thought they were a-​ok in my book.
First off, big huge props to the staff! They were friendly, knowledgeable, and seemed to genuinely care about their menu. That says a lot.
Second, the food. Yes, the food. If you know me, you know I can be a picky bird when it comes to Mexican food offerings. I’m a native El Pasoan so Tex-​Mex isn’t always my first choice. But Texican is different. Their sign says ‘El Paso style Mexican Food.’ And while I was initially skeptical, their red sauce won me over as a fan. Try their migas casserole. The sauce and the pork tips on top of delicious migas is just right!
Last, but certainly by no means least, those margaritas! I WILL be back for their cucumber and their morada. They were beyond awesome.
Thanks to Unilocal,thanks to the Texican Café, and thanks to my fellow diners for proving que Si Se Puede on a Monday night.
Insider Tip: Monday is $ 1 taco night. Yassss!!!

Didn’t recognize too many people at this event… pretty much only Errol & Kelly & Courtney… but got to meet some new friends & eat good food! So nice to have a whole upstairs to ourselves!
The flights were sooooo adorable & unique. Just look at the pictures… how can you not love that?
Friendly staff… even gave us to-​go boxes so we’d have lunch the next day!
Highlights of the night:
–Beef compuestas— deeeeeeelicious!!! Thank you! Meaty & tender & cheesy. Delightful!
–Loved the red salsa & guacamoleeeee
–Light, airy sopapillas– not dry at all! With a touch of honey.
–Learning that all sauces are made in-​house & fresh!
–Goodie bags, how can you not like goodie bags? I don’t think I’ve gotten a legit goodie «bag» at the end of a party since I was 12.
Thank you guys!!! :D

Mourad and co loaded us up on good food and drink. He must have gotten a hold of the How to Make Unilocalers Really Happy Handbook. Well it worked. Looking around I saw some happy Elites digging into their beer/​tequila flights and loading their plates up Tex Mex buffet style. I think the highlight of the menu was the Sopapillas. I would liken it to a beignet, but lighter. The highlight of the event was the awesome Unilocalers that made up each table.
Management and staff made a great impression and really seemed eager to please and excited for the event as well. Thank you Kelly for setting up the event and getting it started and thank you Courtney for keeping the show rolling!

Texican Café, thank you for giving the idea of having a ‘La Morada Monday’.
This purple margarita is dangerously delicious because it actually has Dulce Vida Silver and everclear ;) but I wouldn’t have known after a couple of samples… or did I??;)
Thank goodness for the tasty Monterey migas, quesadillas compuestas, plenty of chips, salsa, and guacamole to save me. The location was a bit tricky for me to find but I am happy to know where it is there now so next time I get a craving for Tex-​Mex I know where I’ll be (w/​a $ 10 gift card, thanks Kelly)!

When I was a kid, we would go to the Texican Café’s south location on Manchaca. To be honest, I’d kind of forgotten about it, and this event was a lovely reminder! I sat at a table with 3 other awesome Unilocalers that I had never met before, which is really the best part of these events. The food was really good-​great guac, chicken quesadillas, jalapeño poppers, yum! The drinks were great too, I think our table unanimously agreed that the cucumber was the best. Remember the Texican!!!

MY FIRST Unilocal ELITE EVENT and it was SO MUCH FUN!
Took a +1 and now she wants to hurry and Unilocal away so she can become an elite too!
Night started with some drinks.
I’m not a beer drinker but I definitely enjoyed the sweeter La Morada w/​Dulce Vita Silver. heh.
Stuffed jalapenos were yummy. Crispy and filled with a good amount of cheese to balance the jalapeño.
Monterey Migas. The pork was so soft and not greasy at all!
Quesadilla Compuestas (Chicken and Beef). These were my favorite. The tortillas were thin and soft, which is what I prefer. Chicken and beef were both juicy and tender.
Pico de gallo, guacamole and salsa served with chips. My table refilled our community chip basket like 4 times!
Can’t wait to go back and use the $ 10 gift card!

Crazy Monday with an early wake up, packed workday, and an accidentally triple-​booked evening? Yes I TexiCAN. You can do anything after the three margarita + 1 Pacifico drink flight they handed me upon entry at this event.
I never would have known about this place: it sits somewhere in a world where Hobby Lobby has no customers and a sad, lonely lot. I keed, I keed. But there is a huge Hobby Lobby nearby (drive past it and see Texican on the left), and there’s ample parking for Texican. Our whole visit was managed by some of the kindest folks I’ve seen in the businesses of serving patrons.
Jalapeño poppers and I have never been friends, but the ones here are pretty dang tasty. So was that chicken quesadilla I scarfed down at a scary pace while — simultaneously, mind you — destroying a plate of chips with delicious (heart healthy) guacamole.
Fueled by fun convo and some delicious eats, I booked it to the next thing, grateful to Kelly and Courtney for all that coordinating magic they do.

The Yes We Texican event was my first elite Unilocal event and it definitely lived up to my expectations of the elite world! Since this was my first elite event, I was nervous how the night would go. When I was greeted with a welcoming hug from Kelly and a flight of delicious tequila drinks, I knew it’d be a great night.
I’m a pretty big fan of tequila, especially after a long Monday at work, so I really enjoyed the tasting of their cocktails: La Morada, the Texican Martini, and the Cucumber Margarita. The Cucumber Margarita was definitely the favorite.
Texican Café also provided the perfect appetizers that I was craving with my tequila buzz. My favorite appetizers were the migas and jalapeño poppers. At first I was trying everything with the different salsas one bite at a time, but on my second plate I was just shoving a mixture of chips, guac, and migas into my mouth.
I also appreciated the booth seating, which allowed me to get to know 3 other great Unilocalers though out the night. I stayed until the end and got to meet some of the other stragglers too. I’d say the fact that I was one of the last 3 people at the event and that I was taking Unilocal selfies with Tim Y and Leila R as we were walking out with our left overs, is evidence that I had a great time. Thanks Kelly and Courtney!

A girl could get used to bookending her week w/​amazing Unilocal events!
First off… if you ever have a case of the Mondays then turn that blue frown upside down w/​any of their Dulce Vita drinks! I usually don’t drink my tequila off a tasting paddle (that’s what cabana boys are for ammarite?) but hatchimama, everything that was on this Tequila Paddle of Bliss from the just perfect Mexican Martini to the exotically spiced Cucumber marg to my favorite, the quixotic La Morada, made my inner tequila drinker: squee: with glee!
The food was sooooo good too! I thought I was seeing double from the extra round of tequila tasters, but there was actually just that much food! I am usually not a spicy-​food consuming omnivore, but holey-​guacamole were the poppers good and the jalapeño jelly they come with; I now it want officially slathered on everything!!!
It was also fantastico to meet so many new elites… I luv that our ATX Elite fam is continuously growing!
Sombreros off to the amazing staff who so graciously catered to our Elite whims and really made this such a great experience!
As always, the dynamic duo of Kelly & Courtney made tex-​mex dreams come true w/​yet another fabtastic event!
Tequila dances were performed, Unilocalfies taken, swag was bagged, and I am officially applying for citizenship as a proud Texican!

This was my first elite event where I was not attached to a +1. Mingle girl… mingle. It was so nice to finally meet Errol and he knows everyone, so I met many other very cool Unilocalers. Nice…
The evening started out with a flight of drinks which included Pacifico beer, La Morada, Texican Martini & Cucumber infused yumminess. I’m not a beer drinker, but that Pacifico was pretty darn tasty, and the rest was divine. How could it not be with Dulce Vida Tequila? I savored every drop. The staff (including the very cool D’Arc) explained each drink. Nice.
Now the food… I didn’t try everything because I’m a vegetarian, but here’s what I did try and wow… Chicken Quesadillas, stuffed jalapeños, guacamole, salsa and chips. Everything was delicious. The sauce that was served with the stuffed jalapeños is worthy of its own special mention. Sweet zippy goodness. Then… wait for it… dessert! Sopaipillas — perfection!
Thank you Kelly & Courtney, for another spectacular event. I can’t wait to use that $ 10 gift card on my next visit to the very cool Texican Café.

I think it’s pretty amazing we’ve had five official Unilocal events in nine days — that’s got to be some kind of record. And I know rationally that Kelly & Courtney are just doing what they always do for us, but I did think briefly we were having a «Last Hurrah» kind of moment, and I needed to complete these reviews quickly before the bad people came. Okay, my mind is a dark place sometimes.
But Texican Café is a wonderful place: It’s big & bright & colorful, with families & couples & thirty TVs around everywhere. It’s a local restaurant group taking TexMex to the next level, and they’re good at it. For our small group of Elites, it was all about stuffed jalapeños & sweet jelly, Migas Monterey, and Quesadillas Compuestas. I believe that’s TexMex for «Good Eats.» The tortillas & guacamole are superb here, and the finishing Sopapillas were fired at the last possible moment. What a difference a delay makes.
But it was the flight, man, that special flight, where Unilocal became my co-​pilot. Pacifico, yeah, I understand the ubiquitous beer overture, but think Texican Martini in Forte, La Morada Dolce, and the gentle embrace of Legato cucumber infusion. We all know Dulce Vida tequila is also organic, right? It’s savoring stuff, not chugging.
And finally, what does the fox say? «Wa-​pa-​pa-​pa-​pa-​pa-​pa-​pow, Terri & Megan.» Lorena, I know. And Heather. And Dej & Tasha. And Jack & Leila & Ardie & Tim & James. Oh look, there’s Emily. I do regret missing Leslie U, and I’m pretty sure it was Tori M I glimpsed departing. Um, Robert & Jenny? And yes, Ruyi & Darren & Cynthia are the new Gen Elite, young lions recounted in endless tales of Hunger Games. But in Errol’s world, dystopia cannot exist in that place where Courtney rocks, and Kelly rocks, and Unilocal rules. In my mind, that’s as good as it gets.

What a great first event experience in the world of Unilocal Austin Elite!
All of the drinks and food were delicious! And who doesn’t love a good swag bag?! Also it was nice to finally put people to all of these faces and names of my fellow Unilocalers!
I definitely will be coming back to my old Austin stomping grounds sometime soon or maybe finally check out Draft Pick with a sweet $ 10 gift card thanks to Mourad and Unilocal!
Cannot wait for the next event I will be privileged to be apart of!

If there was only one thing I could change, it would be to have had the opportunity to walk around and meet more people… that won’t lower my rating of the event.
I got to hang out with 3 awesome Unilocalers in the booth and had enough chips and guac to avoid having to eat real food for the rest of the night…
Couple all of that with the flight of margaritas, which was pretty much a win served by extremely nice staff, including, but not limited to a tolerable version of Sofia Vergara… tell me she didnt remind you of her… and a really gracious owner and I’ve got not only a run-​on sentence, but a really fun night.
Oh and if you stuck around long enough like I did, you also would’ve gotten a ton of salsa for the road… which is super critical if you run a tight ghetto game like I do.
Good work putting this together Kelly!