Guero's Taco Bar Blog

We are excited to announce our latest contest!

All you have to do is simply click here to join our email list for a chance to win a dinner for two!

Hurry because we will be choosing a random winner by May 1, 2011!

We are proud to announce that our homemade Salsa de Ranchero has now hit the shelves and is ready to be enjoyed by you! To compliment this great news, we also stumbled upon a great article on the web that talks at length about our famous salsa.

Guero’s Taco Bar has long since garnered a reputation for providing some of the finest Mexican food outside of the Motherland. In fact, its reputation has grown to the degree that eating there is considered to be an Austin, Texas tradition with locals flocking to have their hunger for real Mexican food and thirst for genuine margaritas satiated. If people come for the food and beverages, their taste buds stay for the salsa.

Please click here to read the full article!

Help us spread some #tacolove in Austin! Every week we will select someone to win a dinner for 4 (4 taco plates, $50 value)! You can earn multiple entries into the contest and there are multiple ways to enter:

• Post on our Facebook wall
• Tweet using the hashtag #tacolove
• Tweet @guerostacobar
• Make video/take picture of yourself at Guero’s and post it to the Facebook wall

Well what are you waiting for? Get out there and start spreading the #tacolove!

Everyone loves our Tacos al Pastor, but did you know the history behind it? Check out this cool history article highlighting yours truly!

It is believed that Lebanese immigrants are responsible for the creation of Tacos al Pastor. They brought over their shawarma method of spit-roasting lamb from their native land in the 1930s which was in turn used as an inspiration for experts in Mexican cuisine who changed the lamb used by the Lebanese to pork for their purposes. Puebla in Mexico could be seen as the birthplace of Tacos al Pastor as this is where the Lebanese brought their cooking method first.

To read the rest of this article, click here!

Read all about FollowMeFoodie’s awesome experience at Guero’s! Your mouth will definitely start watering as you look at the pictures this blogger took of what he had to eat at Guero’s. FollowMeFoodie recommends trying the Carne Guisada and the fish taco when you come in to eat. He also really enjoyed the chips & salsa and fresh guacamole! Yum!

Click here to read more of FollowMeFoodie’s blog!

Sarah, a Sweet Leaf Tea intern definitely knows where to go for the best tacos during Austin City  Limits. If you are going to be at ACL this year, Guero’s will have a booth at the festival so you can  grab a delicious taco while listening to your favorite bands. Click here to read more on what  Sarah has to say about the sweetest beats and eats in Austin.

If you are in the right place at the right time in Austin, TX you can bump into all kinds of famous people from musicians (of course!), to the President of the United States. For the record, if you ever needed to know what that “right place” was, it’s Guero’s.

POLITICIANS: When you live in the Capital City of a state as large as Texas, you can’t help but run into some politicians. Furthermore, when you’re a politician in the Capital City of a state as large as Texas, you can’t help but chow down at the best Mexican restaurant in town. We’ve had the honor of accommodating some of the red, white, and blue’s famous persons. Guero’s Cabinet of Celebrities has seen everything from Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, to governors and cabinet members too!

ACTORS: You don’t have to ACT like politicians are all we’ve seen munching on Mexican food at Guero’s, we have plenty of Actors and Actresses too! We couldn’t tell you how the lights or cameras were, but when we served them their authentic Mexican food, we all saw some definite action. Sandra Bullock, Val Kilmer, Vince Vaughn, the list goes on.

SPORTS ICONS: Not to name drop, but as far as football goes, we have seen everyone come in from U.T. coaches to the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Guero’s has been Hookin’ ‘em Horns up for years!

MUSICIANS: We won’t brag too much here, we know the “Music Capital of the World” has plenty of musicians walking through the city. But we have a list of the ones that have a better taste in food .

Check out our long list of 164 celebrities who have entered our doors and had a taste of the South! From butt kickin’ Uma Thurman to our sweet serene John Denver, Guero’s is the right place to be on celebrity watch. Did we mention Dave Chappelle was here this month?

So do you have a celebrity sighting around Austin?!  Head on over to our Facebook or Twitter page and tell us!  We gotta know!

Just in case you didn’t catch it, we were featured on E-news last night as Sandra Bullock’s favorite mexican food restaurant in Austin, Texas! Here’s the clip:

We are so excited about this!

We can give thanks to Austin Star Maps for spotting celebrity fav-spots in Austin. Heather Brady has an interesting blog going, so if you want to read about her Austin celebrity knowledge, you can follow her here: Austin Star Maps

We love you Sandra! Can’t wait to see you next!

When you cater to Texans, give them what they want.  That’s Guero’s.  There are several different food categories you may consider when it comes to catering.  But let’s be honest, one thing us Texans can all agree on is that Mexican Food is always the best choice.

The next thing you need to decide is if you want the caterers to mean mug your guests and slap a cold enchilada on their plate, OR if you want a hard-working Guero’s staff to prepare, deliver, serve, and clean up with a smile.  Of course, if you want to just order and pick it up yourself, we can just smile at you when you get here. We’re flexible like that.

All of our menu items are prepared fresh in Guero’s kitchen by our staff adhering strictly to recipes brought from Mexico by our chefs, so you know the taste is authentic.

Our stellar reputation as an established Austin Mexican food restaurant didn’t happen by accident.  So if you trust Austin, you can trust us.  We want to make you happy, so let us do what we love and impress you and your guests with the tastiest Mexican Food that Austin has to offer.  We want to make catering as simple and as easy on you as possible, so here are some suggested catering options under our website’s catering section: Guero’s Catering Menu

Decisions, decisions. If you need a personal catering consultation call 447-7688 or email us at catering@guerostacobar.com.

Keep us in mind next time you need to cater, and we’ll be here waiting, fajitas and all.