by Kenneth H. on So my friend had a groupon type thing for this place and neither of us had ever been before, but decided to give it a go. First off the decor is really out there, in mostly a good way. I guess the taco place shares space with some sort of late night hipster club/bar and really the two spaces mesh really well together. I mean most taco places have essentially the same decor, with mariachi music playing and painted murals of a cancun sunset or some such nonsense, but not Nick's! Here you get a bunch of flat screen TV's (good place for sports) with bar seating and a lot of extra smooth red velvet. Woohah. Hipster paradise to be damn sure. The food is good, a bit overpriced for tacos, but large and filling enough to justify the extra money. There is a bunch of meat choices, and I think I got a few different ones all made "crispy style". The "crispy style" is actually deep frying one of the two soft taco shells (the inside one), and although I was initially skeptical of such a blatant disregard for such a cultural food item such as the taco the result actually tasted really frickin good. Okay, so I don't have anything bad to say about Nick's, but definitely some notes to help you out. First off the line for the tacos can get pretty long and also moves comically slow, why? I think the guy taking orders may have been the most stoned person in SF on the particular day that I visited....if he wasn't then he has no excuse for taking forever and a minute to write down orders. Second, finding a table was a bit of a challenge, so if you are with a group send one person to lay claim to a spot while the rest of the party wait in the never ending taco line.
by Aimee A. on Everyone in Pure looks like they are trying way too hard to impress, and it's quite amusing actually! People watching is just about the only thing I'd want to do in that bar. This belongs in Boston or NYC or Miami - not Austin! And even then, it'd probably be one of the lamest bars in any of those cities... haha.
