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Your A-List: Best Queso
The Your A-List poll for Best Queso was as hotly (pun intended) contested as any we’ve had, with the top two vote-getters finishing within a tortilla chip crumb’s distance of one another. In the end, the multiple-location Kerbey Lane narrowly edged out Austin landmark Matt’s El Rancho for the crown. Both restaurants garnered 13 percent of the vote, but Kerbey received two more total votes.
With everyone and their mother serving queso in Austin, you can’t just melt some Velveeta and call it a day. You have to somehow set yourself apart. Kerbey has done so by adding guacamole to their queso, and offering the upgraded Cowboy Queso, which features black beans and guacamole covered with queso and topped with pico de gallo. According to their site, the stuff is so popular that the folks at Kerbey make 150 gallons of the award-winning queso every week. I think my heart just exploded.
Click the link below for complete results.
Others receiving votes
- Chuy’s: 10 percent
- Torchy’s: 8 percent
- Maudie’s: 8 percent
- Magnolia Cafe: 7 percent
- Texadelphia: 6 percent
- Polvo’s: 3 percent
- El Arroyo: 3 percent
- Z Tejas: 3 percent
- Fonda San Miguel: 2 percent
- Vivo: 2 percent
- Texican Cafe: 2 percent
- Tres Amigos: 2 percent
- Nuevo Leon: 2 percent
- Curra’s: 2 percent
- El Mercado: 2 percent
- Zocalo: 1 percent
- El Chile: 1 percent
- Manuel’s: 1 percent
- Lamberts: 1 percent
- Uncle Billy’s: 1 percent
- Alamo Drafthouse: 1 percent
- Jaime’s Spanish Village: 1 percent
- Chango’s: 1 percent
- Santa Rita: 1 percent
- Rio Grande: 1 percent
- Azul Tequila: 1 percent
- Sazon: < 1 percent
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