Lunch special
$10.99
Spring Branch, Texas · Highway 46
Home made.100% Mexican food.
The words on our building, and the only promise we make.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner on Highway 46 — seven in the morning until nine at night, seven days a week. Run by the Alvarez family since 2018.
- Monday – Saturday
- 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday
- 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Get directions
- 25089 State Hwy 46 W, Spring Branch
7:00 AM — 9:00 PM
Seven to nine
A whole day fits inside this kitchen. Scroll it and the light changes with the hour — the same light that sits on every plate we photograph.
017:00 AM
Breakfast
The doors open at seven, every day of the year. Eggs on the comal, chilaquiles under crema, champurrado in a clay mug.
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0210:30 AM
Starters & Sides
The first basket of chips is on us. After that comes the choriqueso, the guacamole, and the cheese dip that everybody orders anyway.
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0312:00 PM
Soups & Mexican Plates
Midday is when the daily specials run — $10.99 from 10:30 to 4:30, Monday to Friday — and when the caldos come out steaming.
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042:00 PM
Tacos & the Streets of Mexico
Corn or flour, onion and cilantro, a chile toreado on the side. This is the part of the menu that came straight from Jalisco.
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054:30 PM
The Cantina
Spring Branch was the first El Jalisco to serve alcohol. Micheladas in a clay mug, margaritas by the goblet, and $2 off every drink Monday through Friday.
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066:00 PM
From the Grill
Evening is when the molcajetes come out of the fire and the parrilladas cross the dining room still sizzling. This is what the tables share.
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077:00 PM
Seafood
A dozen shrimp to an order, marinated and thrown on the plancha. The cocteles come cold, in the tall glass, with avocado and crackers.
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088:00 PM
For the Kids
There is a playground out back and seven plates on this list, all the same price. Nobody has to negotiate.
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099:00 PM
Dessert
Churros with three dips, tres leches either way, and the cheese flan. Then the lights on Hwy 46 go off.
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The kitchen
What comes out of that kitchen
Every one of these is a plate we actually serve. Move the pointer across them — the light follows you.
Every day
Ask your server for our daily specials
Dinner special
$11.99
Happy hour
$2 OFF
Weekends
$18.99
First basket of chips is on us, second one has a charge.
The cantina
The first El Jalisco with a bar
When Mario opened Spring Branch in March 2018, it became the first location in the family to serve alcohol. Micheladas come in a chilled clay mug with a chile rim. Margaritas come in the goblet. Two dollars off every drink, Monday through Friday.
See the cantina
25089 Hwy 46 W
Room for everybody
Twenty-five thousand and eighty-nine Highway 46 West: a covered patio under the live oaks, a playground out back, a drive-thru for the mornings you have no time, and a private room when the whole family comes.
Full bar
Beer, tequila, margaritas and micheladas. The only El Jalisco that pours.
Drive-thru
Breakfast tacos without leaving the truck. Open from seven.
Playground
Out back, past the patio, under the live oaks.
Covered patio
Metal roof, long wooden tables, Hill Country on three sides.
Private room
For the birthdays, the quinceañeras and the after-church crowd.
Live music
Some nights. Call ahead and ask who is playing.
Since 1999
Five brothers, three restaurants
Salvador, Rafael, Alberto, Mario and Manuel Alvarez came from Jalisco and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. The first kitchen opened in southeast San Antonio in 1999. Spring Branch is Mario’s — he bought the property, designed it, and rebuilt it himself.
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- years of cooking
- 25
