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Make room for the Sunday buffet brunch at this famed Austin standby, worth the schlep and the $40 price tag for ridiculously delicious Mexican grub - chiles rellenos, carne asada, pollo en mole, and duck enchiladas. You'll easily find cheaper Mexican restaurants ... but you won't find any more authentic or prepared with fresher, higher-quality ingredients.
One of the happy consequences of the high-end Southwestern food boom is that it pulled regional Mexican cooking up along with it. Chef Miguel Ravago's urbane restaurant (whose menu the Mexican food authority Diana Kennedy had a hand in creating) is a case in point: the slow roasted pork al pastor is some of the best you can find anywhere.
Mexico City-born-and-raised Chef Alma Alcocer-Thomas has been a rising star in the Austin restaurant scene for the last 20 years. Today, she comes full circle in her latest endeavor at the helm of the kitchen of the world-renowned Fonda San Miguel.
http://www.austinwomanmagazine.com/Articles/2009/07_JUL/76_Sustenance.html