Taqueria Chihuahua: Giddings

I’ve driven by this place for the last 15 years- always curious about it and always cars and trucks in front.  Today, I am going to stop.  As usual, the parking lots on both sides are full.  Inside, the line is wrapped around the restaurant.

The menu is on the wall to the right.  Two ladies are as busy as bees behind the hot plates.  The typical fare is present like bacon, sausage, eggs, and potatoes.  In addition, they have the traditional Mexican fare like guisados, chicharones, and asado.

I order my usual: bacon, potato, and cheese with hot red salsa.  Note: this taco is more like a burrito in size, so one is plenty.  Second note: don’t get it to go- it’s nearly impossible to eat it on the road especially when you are wearing a white shirt!  Did I mention the hot red salsa?

In the end, I am furious with myself for waiting fifteen years to stop.  This breakfast taco is filled with cheese, smashed red potatoes and bacon.  The hot red salsa is more runny than chunky with seeds present- it wasn’t too hot.  They offer a green salsa too, so on my next stop, I may have to try it!  The huge tortilla is handmade right in front of you!  Muy delicioso!

My only complaint is that they have the eggs in the same container as the bacon.  There is no way that the two don’t comingle at some point even in your taco, but it is definitely worth taking one for the team!  By far, this is the best breakfast taco that I have had in the State of the Texas.

So, the next time you are blowing through Giddings on your way to Austin, make Taqueria Chihuahua a definite stop.   It’s definitely worth it!  Aye Chihuahua!

Giddings:

Did you know that Giddings holds the Annual Texas Wendish festival in September every year?  Did you know that the Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center holds one of the largest Native American collections in the State?  And, you thought it was just all about peanuts and a beaver!

Giddings was established when the H&TC Railroad was laid from Brenham to Austin in 1871.  Most residents were Wendish Immigrants that migrated from the Serbin Community.   Famous Giddings residents include Hilton Lee Smith, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, August Schubert, who sold his historic home to the Missouri Synod of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in 1894 to house the Concordia Lutheran College, and Dr. William Edward York, a prominent pioneer physician.   Giddings is the county seat of Lee County.

Other sites to be seen include: the grave of the notorious outlaw Bill Longley, who was hung here in 1878, the Serbin Community-Wendish Museum-St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, one of the area’s painted churches located 6 miles south on FM 2239, the Lee County Courthouse- built in a red brick Romanesque style,  the Union Station Transportation Museum, and of course, Taqueria Chihuahua.

Taqueria Chihuahua

1935 E Austin Street (Hwy 290)

Giddings, TX 78942

979/542-3927