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Your A-List: Best Locally-Owned Chain Restaurant
The Anchor of Barton Springs Road’s Restaurant Row, Chuy’s has become synonymous with Tex-Mex food in Austin, and with 26 percent of the vote, is the winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Locally-Owned Chain Restaurant.
With five area locations, the Elvis-centric palace of fajitas, burritos, enchiladas y mas began carving itself a niche in the heart of the Austin community in 1982, when owners Mike Young and John Zapp opened the original location.
Host to a seemingly endless string of families, daters, the young, old and anyone with a hankering for grilled meats and queso, Chuy’s has also done well to help feed folks during these lean economic times with a good happy hour deal of free chips, queso, salsa, beef and beans in the bar area from 4 to 7 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, with house margaritas going for $3.50.
Others receiving votes
- Maudie’s, 12 percent
- Rudy’s, 11 percent
- Thundercloud, 8 percent
- Chango’s, 7 percent
- The County Line, 6 percent
- Freebird’s, 6 percent
- Schlotzky’s, 6 percent
- Mangia, 3 percent
- Zen, 3 percent
- Pok-e-Jo’s, 3 percent
- Taco Cabana, 2 percent
- Brick Oven, 2 percent
- Taqueria Arandas, 2 percent
- Austin’s Pizza, 2 percent
- Pollo Regio, 2 percent
- Pizza Nizza, < 1 percent
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