Traditional Food from Michoacán and Southern Mexico. There is no TexMex here! They recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. You can still find Mom and Dad cooking in the mornings. From Green and Red Mole to Quail topped Enchiladas and Handmade Corn and Flour Tortillas. The food here is phenomenal. The daughters that run this place provide great service and are always in a spirited mood. The ambiance is simple nothing extravagant. Just Dam Good Food!! read more

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I LOVE this spot!! I stop by before leave ATX to the airport and visiting again when I return home!! The Loza family has been here since I was a kid and the food is always perfect. Feels like home read more

Friendly, clean and delicious. Some of the best homemade tortillas I have tasted. Great food. Highly recommend.

Very authentic! Both corn and flour tortillas are hand made and thick which fills you up! You're leaving full and with left overs . Service was also great! read more

Always consistent and friendly. Open early which is great when you work at 0600. Good food.

My favorite Mexican restaurant really authentic taste of the border Carnitas plate this is what I always order and every time it is just as good as the last time the meat is tender, juicy and full of seasoning. I keep telling myself I need to try other items from menu Chicken enchilada with green sauce hubby loved it not to salty just a little spicy but he finished his plate Chips is the best and salsa Yelpers support this family owned restaurant it truly is delicious read more

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This place is so close to our house & we had been wanting to try it for a while on a recommendation from a friend! Please be advised the building is a little worse for the wear but don't let it deter you from trying the fabulous food. Upon entry we were greeted & advised to sit wherever we would like so we chose a corner table by the window. The place was pretty quiet but there were a few other patrons inside. Our server offered some drink options & we ordered straight away. I had the Chicken Flautas atop Bandera sauce, with a side of refried beans. The flavor medley ever evident within the flauta plate is spectacular. I highly recommend getting the bandera sauce which consists of red sauce, green sauce & white sauce (sour cream). The rice is so full of flavor & complimented my dish very well. The beans I will say are so creamy but lacking a little bacon flavor. My fiancé had the Beef Fajita taco plate which came with rice & beans. He found that the flavor of the beef was lacking a little something as well. Perhaps the addition of salsa would have added to it, which is very delicious. The salsa has just the right amount of spice to not overpower your tastebuds & the chips were amazingly fresh & crispy. I would recommend this place for a quiet lunch & the only reason it isn't 5 stars for me is because of the state of the building itself. read more

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Terrible THEY ARE STEALING. I've been to this restaurant multiple times and this time I walk in a lady named Liz/ruby priced me 6 dollars for a simple tea it was outrageous, preposterous. read more

The food is great, the free salsa and chips are delicious. The chips always come out warm/fresh.. the salsa is the perfect blend of flavor and spicy and I don't really like too spicy so this one is perfect. The lemonade is the best and natural lemons are used. The tortillas are hand made/fresh everyday. It's not easy to have hand rolled tortillas de harina and maíz fresh on the daily so I applaud them for that. Overall, the best Mexican restaurant I've been to in Austin. read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Gorditas de asada plate. - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

The food is absolutely amazing! Friendly waitstaff. do not be put off by the location or exterior ... Best Mexican food ever.! read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Unlikely location for such amazing food! - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

Wonderful and excellent! Can't wait to bring guests here. Loved all the dishes. It's right across from the airport so if your out of town guests want to eat Mexican Food, they will be pleased. Great beer margaritas! read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Outside - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

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Never tried their food, but it looks delicious! Would've tried it if the lady on the phone wasn't so rude

Food is not fresh, the rice was not fresh, low food quality, definitely not a good place to eat

Only good thing is about this place: chips and salsa! Very dirty and there is no soap in restroom. Food is good and service is frienbut I would not go back. Too dirty... read more

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Great hidden gem hole in the wall restaurant!! So glad I ventured out and tried this. Very great tasting food and at a reasonable price! Service was great and staff was super friendly. read more

We love this place. Great agua frescas.... any time we go to the airport we try and stop By. MY favorite Mexican food in Austin. read more

Awesome service and great people! Me and my boyfriend always make sure we stop by when we visit the area. The Pastor tacos are to die for, and the fluffy homemade tortillas always hit the spot! read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Pastor Taco and BEC Taco! - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

I gave four stars because I wasn't able to eat here (no meatless options) but that's not unusual for Mexican restaurants. This is a little hole in the wall restaurant! My husband got some kind of chimichanga plate. It was responsibly priced around $13 check out. The staff was friendly and inviting. read more

This is a hole in the wall type of restaurant but omg the food is amazing. And the salsa, if no one was watching I would have drank it from the bowl. The margaritas went down like water! Highly recommend this place, you won't be disappointed! read more

Don't let looks deceive you.... This place is amazing. From the outside the building looks like it has been abandoned for years; however, on the inside this place is a restaurant. The staff was extremely friendly. The inside was definitely a typical authentic Mexican food place. If you are expecting fancy dinning or beautiful ambiance, then this is not the place for you. If you are looking for great food, though, this is your place! I will definitely be back for more. read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

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My sister has been telling me for years that I had to eat at El Michoacano the second I get into Austin from Denver. Since we traveled toget5her this time, we stopped. (twice). First for lunch and breakfast on the way home. And she bought two dozen tortillas to take home which in hindsight was a bad idea as they don't do well in security. She had a combo platter and I had a carne asada taco for lunch and breakfast was the best breakfast taco. And at breakfast we were joined by two more siblings who are local to Austin and had never eaten there. I think we have some new regulars. Our waitress was the owners daughter and she was so nice telling us her favorites and family history. They have been opened for 22 years and I think that says it all. read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Good food and a good dive. - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

Lil "hole in the wall" place. The service was great! The food was awesome! And the beer was cold!! Can't wait to go back. If you are near the airport, this is a must stop. read more

For the best Menudo, we are willing to drive 30 minutes. Staff is very friendly and the taco's memorable read more

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Authentic Mexican food. Corn Tortillas were home made, not store bought. Chicken fajitas were tender and excellent. read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - Home made corn tortillas. - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

(#81)Well...To start this experience off...NO Queso...on a Saturday?..Wife was ready to leave that very second...would a 1 star from here if she was writing the review...I mean That is part of the whole experience on our quest to 100 different mexican/texmex joints...As for the food...wasn't bad...Salsa was spicy, chips crisp..Wife went the usual route beef Chiladas and rice...best part was the guajillo sauce...meat by itself, not much flavor...but all together...pretty good...mine was the Chicken Chiladas with the suiza sauce..was OK , bit much sour cream flavor, and a bit on the thick side...Not the "Suiza" Im used to..Rice and Beans were standard fair...not much stood out..service was good...chances we would come back....No Queso..No Bueno!!! read more

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Walked in around 8:30 had a couple beers and ate the "House Specialty" Enchiladas Mexicana. One of the best plates I've ever had. So good I came back to the hotel and wrote this review(my first). Service was great and the waitress said they've been open for almost 25 years. I'll be going back. read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - "Enchiladas Mexicanas" - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

Absolutely legit Mexican food. Better yet - we are two peeps originally from SO CAL. We know food. We were stranded in Austin TX thanks to United Airlines. They put us up at a dumpster of hotel Quality Inn. This place made sleeping on top of the sheets worth it! DON'T miss out on this gem! We had shared a 3 tacos combo and I ordered a side a flour tortillas to die for! The service was amazingly friendly as were are total grinos! read more

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Not very friendly, have a few fans in the back it gets windy and cold. The food is not very good and it's over priced.

Since I've been here in TX I've had the pleasure of getting my fill of tacos. I love tacos! My boss brought me in a couple of breakfast tacos from here, and I must say they were so delicious. The tortillas were soft, and so fresh. The hot sauce which I believe to be one of the most important ingredients to a great taco was fresh & had the perfect amount of heat. It's going to be hard to leave TX with all this good food . Seriously TX is like foodie paradise. This is a great place for a quick bite . read more

El Michoacano Mexican Restaurant - First day at my new job and my boss brought in tacos! I love my new second home - Mexican Near Me - Del Valle, Texas

Very poor quality Mexico City style food. Tortillas crumbly, too thin and under cooked. Service was spotty, staff watching tv rather than tables. Shredded chicken tacos included shredded bone splinters. Beef taco was course grounds of beef, not much larger than ground pepper. Likely due to fatty content, very oily. Corn tortillas crumbled, but flour tortilla was adequate. Margaritas were syrup flavored without much tequila flavor...not worth the price~and we weren't notified about happy hour pricing, but we just wanted to flee the joint. read more

Excellent and affordable. Simple street style food made genuine by the low brow building. Food matters here.

El Michoacano serves tasty cheap Tex Mex. Homemade tortillas are used to make great tacos. The salsa is good.Mexican coke is available. Great lunch specials. A killer Mexican juke box. For breakfast or lunch near the airport this was one of my spots. When you find out your best girl is doing your best friend she is no longer your best girl. The problem is lard. Lard has always been a part of Tex Mex cooking.In the old days people bought fresh lard or made it from pork fat. Today the hydrogenated lard containing trans fats is common in Tex Mex. El Michoacano uses the cheap trans fat lard. Sold in large tubs it will last forever. After Texas is destroyed in a nuclear war you find only cockroaches feasting on hydrogenated lard. Lard may be an important part of Tex Mex. So if you want to eat lard make it the fresh kind. read more

Oh boy! Teacher work day! We get to go out to eat like real grown-ups! The only problem with working way out here is...where the heck do we go? El Michoacano fits the bill for very tasty tex-mex in this culinary twilight zone around the airport. As an employee in the Del Valle ISD, I know how hard it is to find good eats around here. And what's up with that, developers? Hardly any place to eat around our airport? Hmmm. Our (fab) principal picks up big, yummy breakfast tacos for our faculty meetings; every combo imaginable, best homemade flour tortillas in Austin, excellent salsa so hot it makes me sweat. Perfect, in other words. Fresh, crisp chips that taste homemade, too. Very little English spoken, which is always a good sign, divey atmosphere complete with a spanish-only jukebox, spanish language newspapers, a small kitchen and a friendly staff. I've had the enchiladas (creamy, gooey goodness), sampled lots of breakfast tacos, and that's about it. They have your typical tex-mex variety of food, four caldos, entrees inlcuding puerco en salsa rojo/verde; seafood dishes, barbacoa and the like...all very reasonably priced. The only thing they don't have is a website. Give 'em a try sometime when you're out this way... read more

There are two things you need to try here: the flour tortillas - homemade and yum! any taco here is pretty tasty because of the flour tortillas. i especially like the chorizo and egg breakfast tacos. the chile relleno , it's probably the best chile rellno I've had in Austin or the surrounding area - fluffy, eggy batter deliciousness. avoid the front room, it is not air conditioned well/at all. avoid the queso! it is just horrible, watery and strange. you might get an authentic waitress that doesn't speak english, so brush up on your basic ordering skills en espanol. read more

You need to know the menu to know what to order....I guess. I had the huevos rancheros plate. If you told me they opened canned beans and a bag of potatoes I wouldn't be surprised. Waited an hour for my food to be room temperature. I am giving it a star because of the tortillas and the horchata were pretty good. My boyfriend had Migas and wasn't pleased with it as well. Not worth $30 and an hour wait. Don't waste your time. read more

If you are a vegetarian there are so many other places in Austin to go. I advise checking out a different place. If you don't have dietary restrictions then this place is great! I was invited out to lunch after a big meeting and they wanted to go here because it was close. I don't live in Austin so I just went with the crowd. Unfortunately this place had no idea why I wouldn't want to eat meat or eat beans that were cooked in lard. When I first walked in everyone was already sitting at a table so I joined in. There wasn't a large table - just a bunch of tables shoved together so we could all fit. No problems with that. The issue was that some of the tables were different sizes and heights and they wobbles and I was worried that my food would fall into my lap. The salsa was spicy and amazing on the chips! The waitresses were very nice. They brought the drinks out quickly but I did not see a menu so when she asked what I wanted I jumped to my go-to for mexican restaurants. Veggie Fajitas. She was so confused. She asked "You mean beef fajitas?" and I replied with "yes! Beef fajitas with no beef" and she stood around so confused. I then asked if they would be able to do that "Can you grill vegetables - peppers, onions, tomatoes, whatever without meat?" and she smiled and said she would check. She asked if I wanted beans and I asked if they were cooked in lard. She said yes so I politely declined. When the food came out the plate was full of grilled peppers and onions so I was happy. Plus I had some yummy rice with guacamole. The tortillas are hand made and tastes sooooo good! I love hand made flour tortillas. I am pretty sure they grilled the vegetables on the grill where meat had been used previously. They tasted a little .... greasy and it definitely upset my stomach. I would recommend this place to anyone who loved authentic Mexican food but not if you are vegetarian! read more

I was dropping my man off at the airport for a work trip and since we were early, we decided to stop somewhere close to the airport to grab a beer and a snack. This place is pretty authentic, but very run down. It's very small on the inside and pretty ghetto looking - on both the outside and the inside. We had a couple of modelos and split some tacos. The tacos were tasty, but the shells looked like they were from the Old El Paso taco kit. The chips and salsa were decent - the salsa had a kick to it which I liked. There was a whole back room that was filled with Christmas stuff that the restaurant could visibly see, which I thought was hysterical. Not a terrible place to grab a snack and a beverage. I certainly wouldn't take a 1st date here, but overall, not too shabby for a quick stop. read more

Still fine but not what it was on our first visit. Food came out quicker which may have been the issue. Chips and salsa good as ever.

Ham, egg, cheese breakfast tacos. Homemade tortillas. Good ham. Bright yellow cheese. Good, but highly variable salsa. Being a little lightheaded from soccer helps with the whole experience. (Convenient to South East Metro Park sports fields & airport) It does sometimes smell like a sewer outside. We call it 'stinky taco' for short, El Michoacano is a mouthful. read more

Was just here on 19 Feb before flying back home. My BFF and I grabbed a few cold Dos Equis and breakfast. It is not a great looking establishment - in or out - but it is directly across from the airport and the service was very good. We were attended to frequently enough, with warm smiles and care regarding our food & beverage emjoyment. The menu is entirely authentic Mexican, so if you are looking for 'Chili's' (Blech, what's wrong with you??) then this is not your place. I think we were the only two people in the place who needed to look at the menu to know what they offered, and we were the only non-Spanish speakers (sorry, BFF, I know you've had classes, but you still don't speak Spanish very well...YET!) but it didn't matter as we were treated with equally good service. Its a simple place with good food and great service. Oh and the beer is nice and cold, even on Sunday mornings. A GREAT alternative to eating inside the airport before you catch a flight (and by the way, the airport doesn't serve any beer until after 12 noon on Sundays, so there you go...). read more