Doc's queso is not your average yellow cheese dip... it's more of a thick white cheese with lots of tomato and onion piled on top. The chips are fairly thick - a necessity for the thick queso or else you'd have a lot of chip casualties.
It doesn't beat out Texadelphia or Magnolia for my favorite queso but its pretty damn good...
B.D. Riley's black bean queso has to be one of the more unique quesos in Austin. It's a generous helping of melted cheese with a pile of black beans on top. Not your traditional queso fare. The chips aren't made from your standard tortilla. As far as I can tell, the chips are actually deep fried phyllo dough. That's right, deep fried puff pastry.
Shocked by how B.D. Riley's could further fatten chips & queso, I stared at this queso for a few minutes before giving it a shot.
The black beans and the queso have great flavor, but the combination with phyllo dough chips makes it a symphony. Don't let the presentation fool you... I snapped the picture after a few minutes of attacking the pure saturated fat goodness with a friend. Kudos to B.D. Riley's for one of the tastiest and most unique interpretations of queso in Austin. Now back to the treadmill.
Standard bar queso, nothing particularly interesting about it. The highlight of this presentation was actually the pico de gallo. They do, however, serve this spread with a neverending bowl of tasty, relatively thick chips.
Alamo has surprisingly good chips and queso for a movie theatre. The queso has a hint of BBQ, but not much. And they have GREAT chips - think and tasty - although I usually order an extra basket of chips because sometimes the bottom half of the basket can be full of broken chips too small to dip in the queso. This picture is really of queso, I swear!
Chips are thick but crunchy, I prefer them thinner but they are still very tasty. The queso is tasty as well - simple without many floaties and not that spicey. Not my favorite by any means, but I could eat this all day and not complain. Three stars.
Opal Devines is okay, but nothing to get excited about. When I'm there for Bootstrap-Austin meetings I'll order it, but I wouldn't go to Opal's just to get some queso or anything.
There wasn't much about this queso to excite me. The chips were thick and cooked too much, the queso was kind of blah.
Mmm... Gueros on South Congress is my number 3 favorite queso. Mostly cheese and not much pepper, it is simple but great. They also have a good salsa options that come with it.
Personally, I like thin chips and the Gueros chips are too thick for my taste but that doesn't stop me from polishing off a small bowl by myself.
Guero's Taco Bar
1412 S. Congress Ave.
Austin, TX 78704
512.447.7688
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