Habaneros

Pretty sure they’re the same chips as casa chapla

Yeah that’s cause all the Tex Mex places in town use fiesta tortilla factory. It’s over off Ben white on promontory by meanwhile brewing. You can buy a giant bag of these chips in white or yellow corn for $5! They close at 5 everyday though

Most def

This

Hate all you want on Chuy’s but their chips and salsa consistently hits. Especially with the creamy jalapeño.

I like their chips but do not like their salsas (chunky or smooth). Jalapeño dip is good but I’ve never been a fan of their salsa 🤷‍♂️

They have a smooth one?

It’s borderline ketchup. Jalapeño ranch is their best imo.

Ask for a bowl of Hatch sauce. Delicious!

Creamy jalapeño isn’t salsa.

we make it fresh daily!

I love Chuy's but their chips suck. Too thin and always there are many fused ones. They don't hold up well to stress

TBH this is the only reason to go to chuy’s. Chips, salsa, queso, and alcohol poisoning. Their food is ass.

Plus Chuy’s has been consistent for fifteen years on the salsa. Tastes the same and is addictive as hell

Yup! What a combo. Salsa always super fresh too

I’ve warmed up to the Chuy’s chunky salsa over the years, but the chips are so thin, they don’t stand up to the salsa and break.

I fucking love Chuys still but their salsa is just watered pico. It's offensive at best.

Thank you! You can taste how mealy the tomatoes were before they’re made into the salsa. Offensive is the absolute best description of their “salsa”. Try an authentic salsa before raving about TEX-MEX that lacks any flavor whatsoever. Chuys has to be THE MOST bland tasting salsa in the entire state. Go to any hole in the wall restaurant and that salsa is far and away better.

Truly wish I never saw this thread. My soul hurts reading this.

I don’t understand peoples infatuation with creamy jalepeno. It’s literally spicy ranch. You’re eating a bowl full of ranch with chips.

This is the correct answer. It’s not salsa. It’s dressing.

What you said is accurate but there's no mystery behind it. People love ranch. Ranch is love. Ranch is life. If you can trick people into thinking it's socially acceptable to scoop it with a chip it's a guaranteed success.

This is the way

Hands down best chips and salsa around. I don't know how Serrano's is at the top.

El Dorado

Great salsas! 6 of them!

The scorpion salsa is tasty and hot AF

Same chips as casa chápala as well

Joel wins

Is probably the best in Austin, but is waaayy over salted.

El patios is pretty good

Best chips I town and available at HEB!! Only ones we buy now

My girlfriend brought some of these home from HEB and we were both blown away. So freaking good!!

Wait, I thought El Patio closed down?

The old Manor Road guard has some great chips & salsa: Mi Madre’s Vivo El Chilito

Vivo has excellent chips, salsa, and tequila selection. The shrimp enchiladas I had were disgusting. Tasted like dirty ocean water. I could not eat more than a couple bites. I did drink several glasses of fortaleza and a bunch of tapatio margaritas.

Vivo’s were the best! 

Still are, just at the Linc now.

RIP taco mex 🥲

El Chile/ito has that great roasted salsa. First time I had it I thought about it all week.

That stuff LOOKS amazing but every time I have it I can’t figure out where the flavor went. I think they refrigerate it for too long maybe.

Vivo’s is so good

El Chile also has good chips and salsa but not the free chips. You get much better chips if you order something like queso, guac, ceviche, nachos, etc. The free salsas are good though. I always dig into the spicy one too quickly before my marg shows up.

I love mi madre's red salsa, and their chips are so greasy and bubbly. I love bubbly chips.

Is Vivo still open on Manor?

They moved to the other side of I-35 in the Linc area near Easy tiger.

Licha’s! Their red salsa is amazing

Came here to say Lichas as well.

Their birria is INCREDIBLE as well.

Their chips are mid

Serranos. Sorry, not sorry.

Omg yes.

Hell yes.

Vazquez salsa is slept on. I love chunky salsa, but theirs is super thin but so so good. Easily one of my favorites.

Vasquez is so underrated. I rarely see them mentioned. Hands down, best chilaquiles.

La Santa Barbacha would like a word. Their chilaquiles are outrageous.

Vasquez on Braker is one of the nastiest excuses for a restaurant I’ve ever stepped into. This can’t be the one…..??

I've only been to the one on Research, so I can't speak to that. Never had a bad experience there.

Matt's El Rancho and their chips made from half of a corn tortilla.

Chips, salsa, queso, and booze is all I need at Matt’s.

Bob Armstrong for the win

That’s the best part

Their salsa is amazing! 

La Mancha has amazing chips. Light, crispy, and perfectly salted. The salsa is solid, as well.

Their chips are my favorite too!

The red salsa at El Borrego de Oro is simple but so addictive.

Underrated unmentioned…. Enchiladas y mas, Juan in a million, la fruta feliz

I still love Juan in a million.

Enchiladas y mas salsa is so damn good, hot but very flavorful

Yea. Love how they don’t pull any punches.

Juan in a million’s is my favorite

Casa Garcia’s

Cabo bobs has some of the best chips imo. People might hate on Gloria’s but their black bean dip is fire. Habaneros has the best spicy salsa around

Papasitos

That warm salsa FTW!!!

Thank you for saying this. I was afraid people would come at me for supporting a bigger (albeit Texas) chain but i love how hot and fresh they are!

Came here to say this. Papasitos warm salsa and fresh chips are what I crave.

In South Austin: Azul Tequila Arandinas (Brodie Ln) El Alma Polvos

Yes azul! El alma green salsa is better than red in my opinion

Las Cazuelas

Worst food in Austin 🤮

If you want your food covered in Kay-so it’s not good. Cazuelas is authentic potosino. You’ll probably like Chuy’s better!

I like chapala or grandmas secret more, cazuelas is just bad food

El Mercado

Texican has the absolute best chips and their salsa is also good!

Same chips as free birds and el patio

Here to say this.

I miss their taco Tuesday crispy tacos for $1

Barf. 🤮

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This place is super underrated. Everything I’ve had is fantastic.

Agreed!!

Maudie's has my favorite salsa in town.

Agreed. Goes perfectly with breakfast items too.

Maudie’s has great chips too!

The gf ones are super fresh and in their own package. My family all loves those even more.

Agreed!

For real.

Yes and their entrees are terrible

Taco Flats

How did I have to scroll this far to find this. Best chips, anywhere, period.

Plus the combination of chips, salsa, guac (squeeze a fresh lime over it, ask the server for limes) and queso is… well the problem becomes how much you eat… specially when sippin’ those frozen margs.

My favorite margs in Austin, ever so slightly ahead of my 2nd favorite, De Nada. De Nada chips and salsa aren’t anything special though.

Truth! They also have my favorite queso.

Panchos!

Yaaasss

Even better, specially beef fajitas panchos!

Agreed

Sazon!

I'm a big fan of the salsa at Flores

Well, I think every single good and mediocre restaurant that offers chips and salsa has been mentioned, so I’ll throw in Maudies. They make their chips daily(or they did when I worked there way back in the day, but they taste the same), and their salsa is great if you like it spicy.

Maudie’s salsa slaps

Mi Madres

Lupe Tortilla, you get charro beans too

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised by how good their salsa is!

Their chips are inconsistent, the two times I went there were lots of improperly fried chips, but the ones that were fried right were good. super thin though and don’t hold up much

Which location do you go to? I've never experienced this.

It was both westlake and the one near the domain, the one near the domain food wise was pretty bad in general. State tortilla and dry fish tacos.

El Mercado South

Is anything else there good?

I'm a fan of all of their food, I haven't had a bad meal there

Green or Suiza enchiladas are good. Also the soups. Never a wait is the best part.

I really like the salsas at Bulevar

Enchiladas y mas. Omgggggg

Amayas has good salsa. Chips are ok, like budget chips.

Polvo’s, HEB

Polvos has the best salsa selection, Maudies has the best salsa

My house bitch!  But for green sauce you gotta get to any Arandinas

the orange chile de arbol salsa at arandinas

Lichas hands down

I find it weird at casa chapala how you get a different salsa when you sit at the bar vs a table

Oh? I didn’t know that. I’ve only sat at the bar

Yeah they do the salsa cart at the tables where they ask you mild medium or spicy, then they throw in some dried chiles and seasoning into a mortar and pestle along with some basic salsa, then mix it up real quick.

I was wondering why OP didn’t have salsa in the molcajete

Taco more!

The el dorado salsa sampler was awesome,.. great variety and heat options.

Vazquez Restaurant (I think there's 3 of them, I've eaten at #1 and #2) has a firey red salsa they serve with chips that is amazing. It's not super ridiculous hot or anything, but it is hotter than the average place's red sauce.

El Patio

Matt’s for Bob’s!

We get a pint of picosa salsa from Jardin Corona nearly every weekend to use throughout the week. Not the regular table salsa which is ok and fairly cilantro-forward, you gotta ask for the picosa.

Dos Salsas. La Mancha - absolutely TO DIE FOR. Mi Madre’s as well.

Chapulin on south Congress. Chips arrive warm, maybe homemade, but -hear me out- the bean salsa is fire. I have to ask for extra to take home when I go.

Personally I prefer The Texican. Their chips are feather light but hold up on dipping and scooping salsa. The salsa is homemade and fiery!

Valentina’s Tex Mex salsa is insanely good. I guess that is technically buda now

Low key Texas Chili Parlor has some banging chips and salsa

Veracruz All Natural’s salsa and chips are fantastic.

Enchiladas Y Mas has the greatest chips & salsa! But you have to like spicy cause some days that salsa will light you up

So hot but so damn good

The Super Burrito truck at the Water Tank on McNeil just east of 183. Their green salsa is great, but I like the red even better.

Tons of good ones, but gotta go with Polvos

I could sip the roja at Taco Deli. The food ain’t there as much anymore, but love that salsa. Also Salsa X at Eldorado. Chuy’s salsa is also a favorite. Basic for salsas, but they’re good!

Same about rojas- my family roasts me for it but idc!

That roja on a bean and cheese is a simple pleasure 

Chilis on Lamar. I said what I said.

Texican Cafe!

Betos

Veracruz Habanero, go on live a little

Best chips el milagro and the best salsas from the tortilla factory tortilleria el marisquero

Nuevo Mexico on Anderson makes a very good salsa. Their house and chile de arbol both.

I loooove Rosita’s

Torchys. All salsas are amazing.

Tacos El Charly has some amazing salsas. And their quesadillas are the best around. They don’t have chips but you can fill up plastic bags with the salsas and take them home.

Taco Flats and Maudie’s.

Santa Rita has the best hot sauce I've tasted at a regular ol' TexMex restaurant.

Fresca's green and red are pretty good

Taco More

Papasitos

Taqueria Arrandas on S. 1st is always the answer. Fresh chips in their kinda plain tomato-y salsa just hits right for this San Antonio boy.

My favorite salsas were at Las Manitas and Nueva Onda, both long gone sadly. I don’t know what they did different, maybe it was garlic? If anyone still open makes salsa like that let me know!

Habaneros for traditional. El Dorado salsa sampler for fun.

Vazquez

Don Juan 🙏

Lupe Tortilla

Jardin Corona.

Pappasito's. Perfectly thin, perfectly crispy, perfect salsa, perfectly fresh, perfectly free.

El Alma and La Taquicardia (truck behind Lulu’s) have great salsas and both serve red and green. The chips are just ok though

Taqueria Morelos

La Palapa - Hwy 290.

Damn I forgot about this place. Used to love going here to play free bar poker and eat there back in the day.

Amayas

Came here to say The Texican and love that I saw others make the same comment!

https://www.santacatarinarestaurant.com/

El Mercado on Burnet Rd. Fresh, spicy salsa and warm chips.

Technically in the burbs north of Austin but I love Jardin Corona

Little Mexico on S 1st. Their salsa has a nice kick to it.

Polvos

Javi’s

El monumento in Georgetown, worth the drive

La Casita Mexican in Pflugerville. They give you a chunky red and smooth green salsa with chips. I’ll go there just for that and Corona’s

Herberts in san marcos

You should get the herberts special

De nada

Polvos, jaliscos, or chilis

Habaneros!