Where are the best breakfast tacos in the Austin region? (Corpus Christi: home, restaurant)

[cBach]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

I did not know that. I used to get Rudy's breakfast tacos all the time - vastly better than their 'cue. But now there's too many great taco places between us and the closest Rudy's - two of them in Jarrell five minutes from our doorstep, Rodriguez and El Pitayo (same family, one brick and mortar taco wagon (yeah, that's a thing), one sit down restaurant but you can get them to go).

There's also the taco window at El Charrito in Geogetown. Been there forever, was originally a taco wagon that went around to construction sites, and now every morning all the construction workers can still be seen gathered around that window on their way to work.

Yeah my sister was visiting and she's on a Gluten free diet and she asked and they have it. They don't advertise it but it's there.

There is a closer taco truck to my house but they put too much stuff in the breakfast taco so it gets mushy. I guess I just like eggs, bacon, and salsa (always spicy), just simple.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by cBach

I guess I just like eggs, bacon, and salsa (always spicy), just simple.

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

When people say their favorite tacos are Taco Deli or Torchy's an angel loses his wings.

Oh, it's worse than you think. I do NOT care for raw onions, jalapenos or cilantro. But; I'll eat a bacon/egg/cheese breakfast taco in a flash

[ScoPro]

Chopped raw onions are best served on chili sauce over tamales or enchiladas.

[CarnivalGal]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Ken’s Tacos - just north of Rundberg on the west side of Dessau Road. He’s been there at least 30 years.

Love that place. Used to work down the street, and we would regularly make taco runs. They are huge!

When I lived in San Marcos, there was a trailer at the corner of Bishop Street and Hopkins. I don't know what it was really called, but everyone just called her the Taco Lady. You could literally watch them making the tortillas from scratch and pulling them straight off the comal to make your taco. I haven't lived there in 20 years, and I still crave them. Still never found any as good.

[El Chingaso]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Chopped raw onions are best served on chili sauce over tamales or enchiladas.

Or a barbacoa street taco with cilantro.

[m1a1mg]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

Oh, it's worse than you think. I do NOT care for raw onions, jalapenos or cilantro. But; I'll eat a bacon/egg/cheese breakfast taco in a flash

Sirloin, egg, and cheese from TacoDeli is amazing.

[Danbo1957]

While attending UT, I was with the opening kitchen staff (cook) of the first Waterloo Ice House on Congress in 1976. We popularized breakfast tacos in Austin by putting them on the lunch menu and making them to go. It was one taco for 75 cents, three tacos for $2.00– credit for putting them on the menu goes to Jesse Langer, a fellow cook there. The classic taco (for gringos) is egg, bacon, and hash browns wrapped up in a flour tortilla, offered with a side of salsa, still on the Waterloo menu.

[ScoPro]

Potatoes take up too much room for this gringo. Double bacon ftw!

[TexasHorseLady]

Back in the 70's there was a little tiny place on the northwest corner of Congress and 1st (now Cesar Chavez) that sold Mexican food to go, including, of course, breakfast tacos. I worked right down the street from them at Ginny's Copying Service downtown store (I was Ginny's assistant) and I was there daily. There was always a line, and you could gain 300 lbs. just standing in line smelling the food - it was phenomenally good and sold me and a lot of other Austinites who worked in offices downtown and those who attended UT on breakfast tacos. It was called the Tamale House and it was an Austin institution - seems they started as a taco wagon and then opened up at that location in 1959. Eventually in 1984 the beloved place was replaced by a high rise - not a good exchange in my opinion. But the good news was, Moses and Carmen Vasquez (I knew her as Big Mama - she and Little Mama seemed to be the main cooks) that ran that little taco joint owned the land it was sitting on, and more Tamale Houses grew from the sale (the one on Airport, another Austin institution, was opened by a son in 1977). I've not managed to get to the one remaining, Tamale House East, run by the grandkids, but the genes are sure promising!

I still miss those breakfast tacos.