Maudie's North Lamar

Very good food!! Great taste and feels homemade...This will be my new spot in Austin Service is also good and clean ambiance

Food: 5/5 Maudies is such a Tex Mex staple in Austin and legitimately has some of the best bang for your buck enchiladas in town. Paired with a strong margarita and some queso, how could you even go wrong for under $25?Service: 5/5 Quick from the ordering to the kitchen to the table. What else could you ask for the price?Environment: 4/5 Plenty of seating and parking even on a busy weekend night! Not the cleanest establishment in the world, but sometimes that add the character.

Our family has been going to this location for so many years. We are always so warmly greeted by some of the same staff that have been there the whole time! I have a very deep relationship with Pete's Tacos and the enchiladas. All of the fare is traditional, straight ahead TexMex. You always know what you're going to get at Maudies. I'm posting 5 stars because they deserve it, but also to help bump the overall rating. It should be much higher.

Still really loving this place. Stopped in the other day and was not as hungry because I had a big breakfast earlier. Still, gotta eat. What's on the menu that won't be too much. Hmmm. Oh look, I can get a soft fajita chicken taco al la carte for just $5.75 and it was the perfect size I needed. So I left comfortably full and enjoyed a great meal.Also, I love their menu. Lots of color and fonts that pop out at you! Not your typical menu and it's fun to look though the many menu items.

I live south and was up north to go to Lucky Nail Supply. There is a big Asian community in this area with a Chinatown plaza nearby that I plan to explore soon so I was hungry and looked for places near me. I went at 10am on Saturday morning and there was plenty parking and not crowded (but it was when I left so keep that in mind). The pics on Yelp are beautiful but I wanted something a little more Tex Mex and while I wasn't a fan of the tortilla chips and salsa the fresh squeezed OJ was delicious and the chilaquiles was so yummy. I got the Pete's taco because it looked so yummy and IT WAS!!!! The potato was seasoned so well and the eggs and sausage and peppers and cheese were scrambled soft had lots of flavor on a soft flour tortilla. It was a quick and delicious breakfast with all my favorite thing: parking, great food, my server was sooooo nice and very affordable.

I usually love Maudie's restaurants, but this one? Not so much. My first experience here was Monday night with a rather large group (10 adults, 4 children) and a birthday celebration. We took up 6 two-top tables in the center of the larger room. On the positive side, we had a reserved thanks that was ready on time. And the food and drink we had was indeed good.On the negative side, lots. First, the happy hour menu has changed and not for the better. My favorite, the nachos compuestos have been removed. I can understand that at the $6 price point that was probably not possible to sustain. But at the same time I would have gladly paid $2 to $3 more on happy hour to get what I wanted. Maybe they should offer dollars off instead of fixed price?Another member of the party noticed, as did I, that the Mexi-Marts are getting skimpier. There's far more ice and far less drink. Service was kind but needed too much flagging for chip, salsa, and water refills.The biggest problem by far was the seating. I was uncomfortable all night because we were crammed three to a table for two. My girlfriend thought I was being intentionally cozy when I was really just trying to make room for the diner at the end of the table to eat. My girlfriend's plate and mine and drink glasses and Mexi-Mart shakers were all jammed on to one side of that two top. Note to Maudie's that just because a table has four sides does not mean it's large enough to seat four people comfortably.There really is no ambience to the location. Add to the experience the sketchy hood this location calls home, plus the unsavory characters constantly roaming the parking lot and this Maudie's is so not going to be a repeat performance for me. I'll give it 2.25 stars rounded down to two for the disappointing experience overall. I'll find another location to get my Maudie's fix.

Maudie's is an Austin staple and has many locations in the metropolitan area. My first visit to this location and I do not have a strong desire to come back as I was greeted by homeless people in the parking lot asking for money.Good and friendly service was the highlight of the visit. The chips were fresh, but very average... And the salsa tasted very generic... big change from the salsa, I remember.My main entrée consisted of two tamales and a cheese enchilada with onions. All served à la carte. Nothing special, really void of significant flavor... Very bland. Plenty of open, seating. There was plenty of space between each table, so you could have a private conversation. Many of the tables we're beginning to show some age, but still very functional.Bottom line - great service, cold beer, and very average bland food. Maudie's has traditionally and historically delivered over the years - maybe I need to give this location another shot.

Great food, very busy at lunch - great service.Real deal Tex Mex - simple ingredients served well.Lunch and happy hour specials - lot of parking.Pro tip - as in most of Austin Hobos congregate near here and can be aggressive panhandling be aware of your surroundings and enjoy your life.

We will definitely be back again for more! Their fajita chicken meat is moist and delicious. The chile relleno was just great. Table service was good and their restaurant and restrooms were quite clean. The Powerbowl with the option to use spinach and the black beans is good for you and super tasty. Nice to be able to get a healthy option for a change! Complimentary tortilla chips are thin and crispy and not too greasy, nor are they too salty like other places nearby. The free red salsa is above average. Iced tea was tasting really good. Plenty of parking in the parking lot. The pastry place next door would be a great place for desserts afterwards. Too bad my Powerbowl really filled me up nice and full. So no dessert for me today but don't sleep on the bakery next door to this place. Location is nice as you have a protected left turn at the light when going southbound on N Lamar.We came in after the lunch rush. Seems to be about the time the waitstaff are ending their shifts. Yet we still had plenty of attention to refill our drinks and waitress checked in on us regularly to see if we needed anything. Really can't ask for more here in the way of service.2 little things that I believe are related. First, the men's restroom door did not have a functional lock and there's no individual stalls in there. Maybe I accidentally went into the employees men's restroom or something? There's no stalls in the men's restroom. So if the door is opened the entire dining room is gonna see you sitting on the toilet. Maybe they had a little sliding lock of some kind and I did not see it, or maybe the sliding lock fell off recently and management didn't notice.Secondly there is a lot of shall we say unusual foot traffic in this area. Not sure if there is a h0meless outreach place nearby or what. We had zero problems with anyone trying to approach or panhand1e. Kudos to the manager on duty. My dude spent a lot of time on his laptop working right there by the entrance. Probably to make sure only customers were coming in and out. He was also keeping an eye on the customer's cars too. We'd never avoid such a great restaurant because of a sadly common North Lamar problem which is beyond their control. I suspect the broken bathroom lock is due to a non-customer sneaking in there and doing... well... whatever.We will be back to try dishes with beef next time! Thanks for a swell time at a reasonable price.

Still have not figured out how to use tongs or bar napkins to handle lemons and limes, and rather than fix the problem, and knowing it is wrong to grab them with bare hands, staff simply puts their body between what they're doing and the customer now. As much as I like the food, I eat here now only about once every six months and I'm always wondering why I go back. They still explained to me every time that the item ordering already has cooked onions in it and I have to ask three or four times that they also add raw onions to it at the end and for some reason that is just so confusing. How about just giving people what they're asking for, and don't worry so much about how they want to eat their food.