{"id":295775,"date":"2026-05-16T08:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:13:23","slug":"best-queso-in-austin-in-2026-matts-el-rancho-torchys-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295775\/","title":{"rendered":"Best queso in Austin in 2026: Matt\u2019s El Rancho, Torchy\u2019s and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleBody mb32\">The queso fundido at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/2014\/09\/11\/lichas-pays-homage-to-the-flavors-and-spirit-of-mexico\/10110817007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Licha\u2019s<\/a> reminds you that not all queso belongs to the same family tree. Traditional Tex-Mex queso is engineered for dipping: smooth, pourable. Queso fundido \u2014 or queso flameado in some regions \u2014 is another beast entirely. Here, the cheese stretches and pulls in long elastic strands, arriving on a sizzling skillet with chorizo, guacamole, pico de gallo and queso fresco. Tortilla chips would collapse under the weight of it, so the restaurant wisely serves warm tortillas to accompany the queso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The queso fundido at Licha\u2019s reminds you that not all queso belongs to the same family tree. Traditional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,39308,354,3090],"class_list":["post-295775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-casual-dining","tag-restaurants","tag-tex-mex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}