TACOS!!
what's your go to tacos? corn or flower? soft or hard shell? simple like street tacos or the works (crema, guac, cheese)? untraditional (i.e pulled pork with slaw). THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!!
taco side note.. i wanna visit San Antonio and do business with a Puffy Taco!
taco side note.. i wanna visit San Antonio and do business with a Puffy Taco!
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If I’m feeling fancy or feeding people other than just Lily and myself, I marinate a chunk of beef in a marinade I stole from Tyler Florence’s fajita recipe, then cook it in a really low oven for 6 or 7 hours until it’s soft and shreddable. Not at all legit but I live on the other side of the world from Mexico, so don’t judge me!
meats depend on my mood, but I will admit I love the cheep bar fish tacos. It seems every bar in my area makes fish tacos with fried fish, slaw and aeoli.
Or The shredded beef with pico from Taco Del Mar.
i almost never order tacos from nicer restaurants, if I go there or to a food truck I usually order something else, so I have a limited experience with Tacos
I once when I had several days of leftovers made teriyaki beef, white rice, and sriracha tacos, but that was my own thing because I had tortillas against expiration date and lots of teriyaki beef in the fridge
I know, it's sacrilegious to some purists out there, but I'll take a great flour tortilla over the best corn tortilla any day of the week.
I also love a traditional (he-he) American crispy beef taco. Seasoned ground beef with lettuce, tomato, and shredded cheese. Fast food wise, Texas Dairy Queens pretty much do them the best.
Just remember, it has to be a Texas Dairy Queen. They have different menus outside of the Texas. That's right, bitch ass Kuwait. No tacos for you.
A baja-style fish taco on flour tortilla with all the fixings is damn good if done right.
I also like others have a soft spot for your standard American style beef crunchy taco. Key is the construction: cheese on the bottom creates a melty barrier so the shell doesn't get soggy.
Okay here's the thing....you think the Houston-Dallas rivalry is bad....San Antonio hhhhaaaaaaaaates Austin for acting like they invented the breakfast taco. Whenever you do your serious puffy taco hunting (that sounds wrong) in San Antonio, you should def be on the search for legit Tone City breakfast tacos.
So 2 years ago Austin-Eater published this article about Austin being the birthplace of the breakfast taco, and pretty much all of Texas collectively lost their shit: https://austin.eater.com/2016/2/19/11060078/breakfast-taco-austin-history Tons of back and forth articles battling it out. Twitter storms, etc. The upheaval was similar to the Portland burrito cart women who bragged about cultural appropriation.
It's like when Torchy's tacos from Austin came to H-Town and we were all "get that fake Austin bulllsh*t outta here." We get hangry about tacos. I don't know if Dallas ever jumps into the fray, but certainly San Antonio, Houston, and small towns in the Rio Grande Valley get heated up. Austin gets lots of tourism as the self-professed Music Capital of The World "Keepin it Weird", so they get a lot of national attention like "Omigawwd, lets go to South Byyyy and eat those amazing Austin breakfast tacohhs, home of the breakfast tacohhh..."
So I'd stay away from TacoDeli or Torchy's. Although I have to concede The Wrangler and Democrat at Torchy's are pretty good. Places like Mi Madre's or Casa Maria are a good start. I want remember right that Casa Maria's was the Panaderia I randomly poked my head into one Austin trip and they had bomb tacos. No wait I think it was this place http://la-mexicana-bakery.com/Breakfast-Menu-2.html Also Polvos. Polvos has traditionally been my favorite sit-down breakfast dive when in Austin. I miss the days of $3.99 migas there. Now it's $9.
when it was beer it was Mickey's 40's and big mouths <shiver>.