Barron "I know huh!" F.'s Profile

Another reason why I love living in Cedar Park. The post office is fast. Even when the line is long, it seems to move on at a quick pace. The workers here are really nice too. If you have a package waiting there for you, you can go there before work (7am-ish) and ring the doorbell and they will bring the package for you. When I lived in Wells Branch, I used to dread going to the Bluebonnet station. But the Cedar Park station is the exact opposite! I love it.

I visit the Cedar Park Library at least once a week. Everything is so convenient. You can self-checkout your materials, and the system will send you an email with the details of what you checked out and the due date. You can also renew  online, check availability of items and put items on hold. They have a good children's section and a decent movie/cd area. And they have audio-books too! The anime section is surprisingly good. I guess this is due to the local anime club which meets at the library. There are plenty of computers for browsing, and free wi-fi. The parking lot is big and it is never crowded. The library is one of the reasons I love living in Cedar Park!

Went here with the family for dinner the other night and wasn't too impressed. The burgers (wife had a cheeseburger, and I had the veggie) were just average. I liked the fact that I could add jalapenos at no extra charge, though.

The fries were really skinny. Tasted ok, but they were really hard to eat. It was actually kind of frustrating. Too much work to get a few fries in the mouth. I like the steak fries at Red Robin, where you get lots of potato with minimum effort. Freddy's fries were the opposite.

My veggie burger tasted ok, but the combo was around $7.25 (fries and drink). Pretty pricey IMO.

On the plus side, the frozen custard which was really good. I think in the future we might return for this, but get the dinner somewhere else.

We spent a night at the Deer Run campground area of Bastrop State Park over Memorial Day weekend and really enjoyed ourselves. The campsite was nice and spacious. Each site had its own fire pit, bbq, tent area, water faucet and picnic table. The bathrooms were clean and had showers. There is a good-sized playscape for the kids to spend time on as well. The swimming pool is really nice. It costs $2 per person if you already paid entrance to the park and was clean and safe. There's also a golf course a the park.

For other recreation, there are several trails throughout the park and also a small fishing pond. The water itself was murky and uninviting, but there were at least some fish in it. There is a nice road that winds it's way between Bastrop and Buescher parks, which is nice to drive on, but would be even better to bike on.

My only complaint with Bastrop State Park is that it close enough to Hwy 71.that you can hear the cars traveling past at night. We'll be back to the park for daytrips (bbq, swimming, and fishing) since it is only about an hour away from Austin. Recommended!

Great park! Two playgrounds for the kiddos, tennis courts and a smal sports field. Plenty of picnic tables with bbq grills, plus a couple gazebos and a party pavilion. There's also a nice trail that winds around the back part of the park and a few nice oaks for tree climbing. I think the best part about the park is the amount of shade from the large trees! I wish we lived closer, because we'd be here all the time.

Pretty good food. I had the stuffed poblano chiles, and they were tasty, but the batter was a little too greasy. My wife's shrimp enchiladas were really good. Chips and salsa were good, not great, and the kids meals (mac n cheese of course) were nothing special. Service was great, however, and the prices were pretty good too. I'm still searching for some really awesome Mexican food nearby, but unfortunately Guadalajara wasn't it.

We've visited Los Reyes a few more times, and I'd have to say that I don't enjoy it quite as much. They seem to be using American cheese A LOT now, and the food generally isn't as tasty as before. We'll go back, since it's so close, but probably not as often.

Went to Mr. Max while visiting the Dallas area. I was looking forward to eating here after reading the reviews, and I was happy to see that they are on the mark! It's really like an izakaya in Japan. The walls even have signed pictures of Japanese baseball stars. Food was yummy, and there was a lot ot choose from. Smoking is allowed here, but I didn't mind it so much. Just reminded me of Japan actually!

If you want a taste of an authentic izakaya restaurant, Mr. Max is for you.

Like Keri, I live nearby and want to see local businesses, and especially restaurants, do well. But I can't recommend Tijuana Roadhouse for more than two stars at this time.

The service was nice and friendly, but you could tell they were still in training mode. When asked if we'd like more chips for our running-low basket, instead of bringing more chips or a new basket and switching with the old one, they just took the old one (which still had 1/4 left) away, and we waited a couple minutes to get more chips, leaving us with nothing to munch on. Also, when they brought us the credit card bill, they didn't leave a pen. Just little things that I expect will be remedied with some on-the-job training, and nothing to give only two stars for. But the food is another story.

The menu is a mix of burgers, steaks, tex-mex, and home style comfort food. My wife got a mushroom burger, and she thought it was pretty good. The pattie was fresh and tasty, and there were plenty of toppings. The bun was kind of a sweet roll, which should really be an option. She said it wasn't just a sweet bun, but more like a Hawaiian sweet roll as far as sweetness goes. Would have been nice to have the option to get a more regular bun. As a side, she got the fried okra, which was ok.

Our kids got their kids' plates, and while the chicken fingers were decent, the bean and cheese tacos were not. The corn tortilla was dry as could be, the beans were tasteless and cheese seemed like it was cut in strips from a one-pound block. It also wasn't melted. I had a couple bites, and the whole thing was like cardboard.

For my entree, I had a burrito, with the spinach and mushroom filling. It was topped with chili con queso, and another chili sauce. For one thing, the burrito was huge. But when I dug into it, the filling oozed out and didn't look very appetizing. I think the spinach was actually spinach dip, like you would have with crusty bread. It tasted way too processed. Also inside the burrito were small mushrooms, a layer of the tasteless beans and a layer of Mexican-style rice. I ate more of the burrito, but then had to squeeze out the spinach-dip because there was just too much of the stuff. I was hoping I would be left with a regular bean n cheese burrito, but it ended up just like my son's taco: tasteless. I'm not lying when I say that anything from the menu at Taco Bell would have been better, and at a fraction of the cost. I never put tabasco on the food I get at restaurants (except Chipotle), but I resorted to the green chile tabasco in hopes of salvaging what was left of the burrito. It did not work.

On the plus side, I also ordered a side of a "Cheesy potato casserole". This was actually tasty, and I ate all of it. It was more like cheesy home-fries.

I really hope this restaurant refines their menu a bit. I honestly think that the recipes are of bachelor-level cooking. My burrito recipe could have been, "combine 1 pint HEB spinach dip, 1 can refried beans, roll in tortilla, cover with scoop of queso sauce". Definitely not something that I'd serve in a restaurant and charge $9 for.

I feel kind of bad writing this negative review, because the staff and owner seemed really nice. But the food was really not good.

We made reservations for the sushi bar an ordered the omakase set. Each dish was awesome, even the daikon salad. I'm not an ika (squid) fan, but the ika sashimi was excellent. We were served sushi, oysters, foie gras, sashimi, and excellent sake in a bamboo decanter. The menu items are varied and You'd need to come back several times to sample everything that looked yummy. My only complaint was that even though we sat at the sushi bar, the chef didn't serve us our food. We like to ask them a bit about the food and preparation and have a little more interaction. Besides that minor fault, we loved Ikko!