William B. Travis Building Cafeteria

The cooked food is always been exposed to a filthy dirty fan that they keep blowing right above all the food. The nastiest crap I have ever seen. Who wants to eat food like that!

Travis Building State Cafeteria Breakfast Taco (Flour Tortilla, Refried Beans, Buttery Scrambled Eggs, 3 Breakfast Sausage Links, Grated Cheese & Little Bit Picoso (Hot with Chile) Salsa; Chased with Milky Way Dark Candy Bar & Black Coffee. Great start to a new Day in the ATX!
I consider this Cafeteria to be a Great Fringe Benefit to State Employment & it is open to the Genera Public! Great Food, Friendly Competent Staff & an Interesting mix of Customers with ample indoor tables and Outside Seating in a Picnic Area!
DR Wiley Coyote SF0 …

Credit has to be given where it is due. Had enchiladas on Monday and it was way a lot better and still warm, than the overrated «unskinny „trusted“ cooks» off Anderson lane. And for less than 5 dollars.

This place is great, all sandwiches and salads are made fresh daily, and where else in Austin texas can you get a entrée with 2 sides and bread for 3.35 no where. The folks have a very small area to prep food in but manage to serve hundreds of customers everyday, and all day. And don’t forget a 2 item taco for a buck come on the taco wagon down the street from where I live charges 1.75. these people are awesome

I’ve been coming here for the past 5 years or so. It’s cafeteria style food, so the expectation for some 5 star restaurant just shouldn’t be there. For what it is, the food is good.
A 2 item breakfast taco, some potatoes and a 20 oz soft drink for about $ 3.25 is a steal compared to the capitol grill. $ 1 tacos on Thursday is also a very good deal.
Generally speaking, the employees are friendly, the place is clean and the food is priced right.

I’m reviewing this place in honor of yesterday’s promise that I’d eat at the state office cafeteria over ordering from Magic Wok ever again.
So I went to the Travis today and had my usual. Double cheeseburger, fries, and a large drink. The burger is pretty good and the grease factor is just right. The fries are pretty standard frozen fries, but they get a point for being pretty hot. However, wrapping an order of fries in Saran Wrap does end up with steamy, limp fries.
All in all, it probably deserves a 2 star review, but the staff is friendly and the prices are right, so I’ll go with three stars. And they’re less likely to foul up an order than Magic Wok!

You charge for ice?! WTF?! Are you for real?! I could’ve walked 30 feet to the ice dispenser near the elevators and gotten all the free ice I wanted!
OK, after I got over the initial shock and disgust of having to pay for ice, and we’re talking at most 10 little itty bitty cubes, AND seriously considering a boycott of this place…
I must say that I do like the breakfast tacos here. You can put two items in a taco (mix and match between eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes) wrapped in a flour tortilla. For a $ 1. And they have freshly made salsa, which is a bit on the spicy, jalapeño-​y side, but that’s fine.
Just don’t forget that this is a cafeteria, and they charge for EVERYTHING!

Rating a state cafeteria is kind of like rating a McDonald’s. What’s the point? That said, they have a much better veggie burger and chicken sandwich than you’d expect, and they have a huge selection of chips and candy (the last thing state employees need — me included).
Not great, maybe not even good, but it’s dirt cheap and close by if you are a state employee.

The credit card minimum thing is not only stupid, it is against their card holder agreement that they signed. I understand their feelings behind it and that it cuts into profits, but tough, you signed the rules, now follow it. This really just makes me want to steal plastic forks from you and horde them in my office drawer.
You are still cheap and good for a quick breakfast or a somewhat passable cheap taco on Thursday.

For a state (employee) cafeteria; they are a very good deal. It is not just for state employees as anyone can get in. (enter on the Brazos side by the gazebo) They have a hot plate daily special or you can order burgers, chicken sandwiches, depending on availability is a $ 3 taco salad or club sandwich with chips. They have deli sandwiches, chef salad, ice cream bars, cookies and lots of candy and some unusual and unique food items. They also have a mini-​store and sell aspirin, greeting cards, and other emergency items like umbrellas.
It’s not anything I would go across town for but you can’t beat the price. Credit Card minimum is $ 3 They even have outdoor seating. If you want better, then go elsewhere and pay double.

I would give it 4 stars, but it’s still cafeteria food, and there’s something wrong about putting cafeteria food right next to Rudy’s BBQ =)
That said, the food here is tasty, warm, and will fill you up for cheaper than anything else out there (including McD’s — blech). Entrée and a side for $ 3? That’s a deal!
Also, they’re open til 4pm, so you can get a late cup o’ coffee, some healthy (just kidding) packaged snacks, or a tuna sandwich in the fridge if you’re lucky.
The fried okra’s great, as are the tacos (breakfast as well as the hard tacos they sometimes have for lunch). The burger is very tasty, and is much fresher than McD’s (blech). The staff are very cordial as well.
This place has probably saved me a chunk of change this past year of working for the State of Texas, and while I’ve probably taken a hit on the saturated fat intake, I figure since I try to eat smaller portions here than I normally would, it all balances out.
Pretty good place to eat if you’re a state worker!

This place gets an extra star from me simply because lunchtime dining options are severely limited in the Capitol Complex area, and there are a few things on the menu they do competently, if not well. I prefer this place to other, similar options such as the Chicken Bowl on Lavaca.
Sometimes the fried chicken (Wednesdays) is OK.
I have friends who love their crispy tacos (Thursdays), but I suspect that’s only because of nostalgia for their elementary school lunchrooms.
Their cheeseburgers are competent, sometimes even good.
Some of the sides they serve are also edible, such as the fried squash, fried okra, greens, and black-​eyed peas.
It’s also pretty cheap, which is a plus.
And dang it, it’s just kind of fun to go there to experience the grimness of a state office building at lunch time.

I gotta hand it to the folks at the WBT cafeteria (or «Ronnie’s Cantina», as my friends affectionately call it). I would have given them 1 star, but they’ve really made an effort to fix the place up – new layout of the cafeteria, fresh paint, and a state-​of-​the-​art bacon-​stench removal system. Ok, I made the last one up, but kuddos to these folks for making some much-​needed changes. So, if you find yourself in the Travis building and simply must eat, follow the fried swine smell and stop in at Ronnie’s. The garden burgers are good, as is the «gourmet» coffee (as Jill points out, the regular coffee tastes a lot like dirt.). While you’re there, you may want to stop by the gift counter and pick up a bedazzled iPhone case or a polyester scarf. Enjoy, y’all!

I only go here when I need a quick fix for a liter of water or gatorade (and I am too lazy to drive to the 7 Eleven). Alas, this is one of the closest state cafeterias that takes a credit card.
Jill’s review is on the nail. The old bacon smell is on my coat.

I appreciate your 99 cent breakfast tacos, and your fried okra is quite tasty; however, so far, everything else has been pretty poor. How do you mess up grilled cheese? How hard is it to avoid making the coffee taste like dirt? I knew I was going out on a limb by ordering a cafeteria pork chop, so that one’s on me, I guess. I do have one request. Is there something you can do about ventilation? This place always smell like old bacon, and subsequently scents me with old bacon aroma. Anyway, you provide a convenient source of caffeine, fat, and carbs for the government drones (myself included). Thanks for that.
UPDATE
Add one star for the «Travis Café!» Ventilation still doesn’t work well, but the fresh coat of paint and the new flat screen TV help perk the place up a bit. Recently, I tried a cheeseburger meal ($ 3). I was pleasantly surprised. The fries were soggy and not salted, but the burger had decent seasoning and was served fresh off the griddle. This is by no means my favorite lunch spot, but if I forget to pack a sandwich, I might get that burger again.