When you are in Austin, Texas, make sure you go to El Mariachi for lunch or dinner. It’s my favorite restaurant, because it’s like combining a great Mexican meal and a party into one thing. From the minute you walk inside El Mariachi, you know it is going to be different than most restaurants.
On Friday and Saturday nights they have live mariachi bands playing music in the corner. Sometimes the room can get very loud with trumpets blasting and customers singing along in Spanish. The walls are decorated with brightly colored blankets and sombreros. Large piñatas in the shapes of bulls, donkeys, and other animals hang from the ceiling. If you have dinner at El Mariachi on your birthday, they’ll even let you try to break open one of the piñatas
