If there is one restaurant I've been to more often than most in Austin, it's Rudy's.
Rudy's is by no means a "classy" restaurant. You sit at benches, and your food is given to you in a basket. There are no plates, only white pieces of paper. All the silverware is plastic. They don't give you bread rolls with your food. Rather, they give you an entire loaf of bread that looks like it was just bought up the street at the local HEB market.
So why do we go there? It's cheap. The meat is really good, and their homemade bar b que sauce (they misspell it as "sause", deliberately I hope) is excellent. We often order the beef brisket, but occasionally we've ordered the sausage or the pork ribs. They're all pretty good. As a side, you can get cream corn (good), baked beans (very good), or cole slaw (which I don't like).
Every time we go there, we spend less than 20 bucks for a family of four. Normally we spend anywhere from $14 to $19 depending on how many side dishes we get. It's a good deal. It's gotten pretty expensive these days to take your whole family out for dinner somewhere. The other day we went to Marie Callendars. We had a coupon for a free dinner, and we STILL ended up paying over 30 bucks (with the tip).
Rudy's is basically a typical Texas kind of place. Big slabs of beef and bar b que sauce all over the place. This is the kind of place I'd take my Taiwanese in-laws to if I wanted to introduce them to "Texas cuisine."
(Pictures: 1. Rudy's. 2. Inside Rudy's. 3. Sara and Kyle. 4. Kyle 5. Christy, Kyle, and Sara)
Rudy's is by no means a "classy" restaurant. You sit at benches, and your food is given to you in a basket. There are no plates, only white pieces of paper. All the silverware is plastic. They don't give you bread rolls with your food. Rather, they give you an entire loaf of bread that looks like it was just bought up the street at the local HEB market.
So why do we go there? It's cheap. The meat is really good, and their homemade bar b que sauce (they misspell it as "sause", deliberately I hope) is excellent. We often order the beef brisket, but occasionally we've ordered the sausage or the pork ribs. They're all pretty good. As a side, you can get cream corn (good), baked beans (very good), or cole slaw (which I don't like).
Every time we go there, we spend less than 20 bucks for a family of four. Normally we spend anywhere from $14 to $19 depending on how many side dishes we get. It's a good deal. It's gotten pretty expensive these days to take your whole family out for dinner somewhere. The other day we went to Marie Callendars. We had a coupon for a free dinner, and we STILL ended up paying over 30 bucks (with the tip).
Rudy's is basically a typical Texas kind of place. Big slabs of beef and bar b que sauce all over the place. This is the kind of place I'd take my Taiwanese in-laws to if I wanted to introduce them to "Texas cuisine."
(Pictures: 1. Rudy's. 2. Inside Rudy's. 3. Sara and Kyle. 4. Kyle 5. Christy, Kyle, and Sara)
Taiwan has some great food but your post really makes me miss good bbq.
ReplyDeleteI've eaten at Rudy's in San Antonio many times, great food. Do they still sell their BBQ sauce in glass bottle instead of plastic? The peach cobbler was pretty good.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite dish there is the moist brisket. Probably not the most healthy, LoL.