Austin loves to claim taco supremacy but leans entirely on breakfast tacos while San Antonio quietly eats more interesting food. Is Austin's taco culture overrated or genuinely the best in Texas?
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Add your commentthe best taco in austin is at a truck that has no social media, no website, no yelp page, closes when they run out, and is only findable if someone who loves you tells you where it is. protect these places at all costs.
A migas taco from Juan in a Million at 7am after a long week is one of the top five human experiences available in this city. I will not be taking questions.
hot take: the BEST breakfast taco in austin is homemade by your neighbor's abuela who has never heard of a food blog and you get it at a birthday party by accident. fight me
Torchy's going corporate and expanding nationally is the most Austin thing that has ever happened. We found something good, then we franchised the soul out of it.
I make the pilgrimage to Veracruz All Natural every Sunday morning. It is church. It is the only church I attend consistently and I feel no guilt about this.
san antonio literally invented the breakfast taco and austin gets all the credit because food writers from NYC fly here instead. the journalism is the problem not the tacos
Anyone who calls Austin's taco scene 'embarrassing' needs to explain what city is doing it better and I want a full written defense not a tweet.
I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley. The taco discourse in Austin is adorable. Come to McAllen sometime and I'll show you what the conversation is actually about.
Okay who told newcomers that Torchy's is authentic Austin Mexican food? It's a marketing campaign with queso. It's fine! But let's be accurate.
Every food influencer who posts about Austin tacos goes to the same three Instagram-friendly places and none of them have been to East Cesar Chavez at 6am. The algorithm is misleading the whole city.
New York Times called Austin the 'taco capital of the world' in 2016 and Texas has been arguing about it ever since. Good journalism. Very good journalism.
Austin's food scene has genuinely improved in the last decade. The al pastor at some of the newer spots is legitimately competing with anything in the country. The breakfast taco obsession undersells what's actually here.
I'm vegetarian and moved here last year and I can confirm that Austin's taco scene accommodates me extremely well which I did not expect. So there's that.
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