365 Restaurants, 2 Kids, 1 Giant Fiasco
Fooled at Fuel City
19Apr2009 Filed under: 3 stars, Breakfast, Dallas, Dinner, Lunch, Mexican Author: graceThe experience
Today is my real birthday and Ogre planned a Phipps family excursion to Scarborough Faire. We planned to stop at Fuel City as we read in the Observer that they have “the best street tacos” and have heard this from other sources as well. We see Fuel City every time we head to Austin, so we thought this would be the perfect spot for our childsplate lunch on my birthday! Well, we found it’s not so much a sit down restaurant…
Ogre sent me to the walk up window to let him know what I wanted to order. Ahhh, I see. So I went up there and then told Ogre what I wanted while I sat in the car with the kids.
It took a few minutes, but the kids were okay in the car. Ogre brought back the goods and we ate it in the car before driving off to Scarborough Faire.
That’s it, not very exciting!
The food
They serve street tacos (you can actually choose flour tortillas if you don’t want to be traditional). They have barbacoa, chicken, al pastor, and beef. They also serve breakfast tacos until 10 am.
We ordered the beef and al pastor. They are double layer corn tortilla with meat, cilantro, and onions. They were awesome!! A million people (I don’t actually know if it’s a million) weren’t wrong. I really think these might be the best street tacos I’ve ever had! Perfectly grilled and flavorful. Ogre says it’s the best al pastor he’s ever had because it doesn’t have the “pineapple thing going on.”
The service
Walk up window! No tables to sit at!
The kids
Is your car kid friendly??? Cause that’s where you’re going to end up eating!!
I definitely would stop here for a quick bite when I’m travelling out of town and I’d visit frequently if I lived nearby! Kids or no kids!!
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Kellie
April 26th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Happy birthday! I’ve also heard/read that they have a corn vendor outside. Did you see that?
grace
April 26th, 2009 at 11:04 am
yes! and actually i love corn, but didn’t see it initially when i went up to the window. ogre told me all about it when he got back from the window. apparently, they take corn off the cob and then mix it whatever…spices, cream, other stuff. i’d like to try it the next time we hit the place. this may become a hot spot for us when we head south!
thanks for the birthday wishes! (:
Liz G.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:45 am
Oooh – we’re heading to Austin on Friday the 8th – we may have to get up super early and leave before traffic so we can get there in time for breakfast tacos.
And on the way back, stop for corn. I love roasted corn like that!
Yum!
grace
May 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I know, I want to try the breakfast tacos also. Let me know how they are if you get by there soon enough!
Liz G.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
We did the breakfast tacos on the way to Austin last Friday morning. OMG – incredible!! They have to be some of the best tasting breakfast tacos I’ve had in quite a long time. Definitely worth the small detour.
Oh – and next time you are in Austin – try Fino. It’s an incredible Tapas bar in some non-descript office building on San Gabriel off Lamar and 29th. YUM! http://www.astiaustin.com/fino/
grace
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
now you’ve got me craving the tacos!! we will definitely try fino’s the next time we’re down in austin, we love tapas!