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Honduras

Friday, July 24th, 2009

honduras-trailer

3.5 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Address:
2538 Elmont | Large map
Austin, TX 78741

Phone: 512- 740-5580

Hours:
Thursday, 11am-10pm
Friday, 11am-11pm
Saturday, 9am-11pm
Sunday, 9am-9pm

Price range: $8.50 - $12.50
(the fried chicken is the most expensive item on the menu)

Location: Riverside
Type of restaurant: Trailer
Payment accepted: Cash
Good for: Real Central American food, hipsters, late-night bites
Meals served: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

honduras-drumstick“1000% Honduras” reads the bold, blue text on this little mid-Riverside trailer. Honduras offers a uniquely Central American version of fried chicken: covered in a creamy sauce of mustard, mayonnaise, vinegar and various other condiments, the two-piece chicken dish comes with green bananas and a heaping salad of cilantro, onion and other vibrant vegetables that we had a hard time identifying. After the first bite, our taste buds were jumping with surprise and delight.

The trailer’s parked at Food Stop, a rundown gas station and convenience store. Located at the heart of the (arguably) most Mexican part of Austin, Honduras faces Mexican shopping center El Gran Mercado, a Mexican flea market and student apartments. Honduras offers a fresh break from all of the Mexican food in Austin.jessica

Some tips for maximizing your Honduras visit:

  1. Everything is cooked to order (nice!) and takes 15-20 minutes (boo). Don’t wait in the heat; go in the evening or at night.
  2. Actually, call and preorder.
  3. The creamy sauce gets too rich after the first piece of fried chicken. Ask for sauce on only one piece of chicken.
  4. Bring cash. The fried chicken is $8.50.
  5. Unless you already know you love green bananas, don’t order extra. They taste like bitter, unripe bananas.
  6. Order the Tamarind drink. Honduras extracts the sweet-and-sour pulp from this Mexican seed and turns it into an addictive beverage. At whole foods, this would be 6 bucks. At Honduras, it’s $2.

Co-founded and owned by sisters (and Honduras natives) Jessica and Mimi, this little joint not only serves up authentic Honduras grub, but also boasts stellar customer service. Jessica entertained us the whole time, letting us snack on her bag of Tamarind seeds, showing us how they purplefy the onions (by soaking them in juices from other strong-hued veggies), and talking to us about her 2nd job as a nanny.

Overall, Honduras’ fried chicken is well worth a trip to Riverside. Just don’t go when it’s 105 degrees.

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Austin Fried Chicken, Reddit

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

A good friend of mine posted this site on Reddit, the social news Web site. In the interest of chicken transparency, and because the comments weren’t spam, which we get about five a day, here are the two comments the link got:

1. From Paulaner:
Terrys Soul Food on E 6th is really good for fried chicken. Also this chicken and waffles sounds amazing.

2. From adrianmonk:
Once upon a time, I heard that the fried chicken at the convenience store at Lamar Place and Lamar (which is near Threadgill’s, just north of Denson) was really good. But that was years ago.

EDIT: The one on the north side of Lamar Place, not the gas station on the south side. Also, I think I am idly rambling. I have no idea if the chicken there is actually any good or not, or even whether the place still exists.

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Bill Miller Bar-B-Q

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Bill Miller fried chicken in Austin

3.5 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Address:
8103 Burnet Rd
Austin, TX 78757 | Large map

Phone: 512-458-3244

Hours:
Monday - Saturday
6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in-house, 9:30 drive-thru
Sunday
8 a.m. to 9 p.m., 9:30 drive-thru

Location: North Austin, Burnet and Teakwood

Click here for a list of the
restaurant’s other locations

Price range: $0 - $10
Type of restaurant: Fast casual
Payment accepted: Credit cards, cash
Good for: Quick bites
Meals served: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

I wasn’t expecting much from this fast-food style restaurant, and maybe that’s why I was so surprised by it.

We arrived at the Bill Miller’s on Burnet Rd. around 7:30 p.m. It smelled like Wendy’s. The first you’ll see when you enter is an assortment of pies and cobblers. Then you’ll look up and see a huge beige menu behind a maze of steel pipes directing you to the counter. All this reminds you that this is not a sit-down place.

We glared at the menu for a few minutes as an employee bargained with the counter girl for some chicken. “That’s a good sign,” I thought to myself. “If the employees like it, it can’t be complete ass-food.” We each order a meal: A three piece with fries and a two piece with mash potatoes. However, we were told that they were out of chicken breasts, and if we wanted some, we would have to wait about 15 minutes. We agreed. The counter girl gave us a free drink for our troubles.

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About 20 minutes later our food was brought out on little brown trays. Another bonus for the wait – free peach cobbler. The chicken looked nothing short of bangin. The breading was generous and a perfect color, and the size of the legs, breasts and thighs was natural. My first bite reveled the chicken was juicy, crunchy and almost too hot to eat. I was sold. It tasted made to order. Now I don’t know if this common place, but I hope it is, because I expected brown frown and got golden train wreck.

We devoured the chicken. I smothered some in provided hot sauce while keeping tabs on the restaurant’s environment. The place was completely empty, minus the one or two 50-somethings chowing down not making a fuss about their little lives. My fries were nothing special. In fact, they were shitty. Anna’s potatoes were tolerable. She says they were probably half instant and half real.

Outshining all was the chicken, and I’m for real real about this when I say it was exceptionally good and definitely filled up that little spot in me that clucks for some fried goodness. I recommend this place for a quick bite when you got to get your fix. I wouldn’t take a date or my mom there, though.

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