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Posted on | July 10, 2009 | No Comments
Porfirio's Breakfast Tacos
If you’re planning a visit to austin I recomend the following routine:
- Step 1: Wake up and asses what kind of breakfast tacos you want. Giant and greasy? Small and flavorful? The Don Juan? This decision is key. Make the wrong choice and you’ll be staring down the business end of a giant pile of eggs and potatoes and it will not be pretty.
- Step 2: Arrive at breakfast taco venue and asses the menu. Chorizo and Egg? Check? Homemade salsa? Check. Are beans an option? What is the price for additional meats/toppings if they are available? My personal preference is to see most tacos listed without cheese. I don’t like cheese and I think that less good places use it as a cheap way to add flavor and fat. If you’re eating a great chorizo and egg taco you don’t need crappy shredded cheese to hold it together, that’s what the grease is for.
- Step 3: Eat it you moron! I’m a big fan of applying to much salsa and also eating the tacos while they are still waaay too hot. I think if you’re not sweating at the end you’re doing it wrong.
- Step 4: Go get some good iced coffee. Clementine on Manor is good. We went to Jo’s on South Congress this morning and I think crushed ice is not the best choice for iced coffee. The ratio of frozen water to cold coffee is just too great. Also, too many hipsters. Consuming a cold caffeinated beverage prevents the sun from turning your brain into mush.
- It should be noted that I am an amateur in the breakfast taco arena and all of the above tips are not to be taken too seriously. After all, breakfast tacos are amazing and just thinking about them makes we want one right now at 11:30pm.
Today my breakfast taco spot of choice was Porfirios. After Mi Madre’s I wanted to go a more greasy spoon kind of joint. My first breakfast taco experience involved a disused caboose on blocks so I’m always looking to recapture that decrepit greasy spoon quality. And I should say, Porfirios rocks. The mascot of this little joint is an angry bulked up jalapeno. This makes more sense when you realize that the green salsa you’ve been given is almost entirely chopped jalapenos and packs a serious wallop. But the chorizo and egg taco was so good, with the sweat inducing salsa, that I don’t have a picture of one because I ate it before I even thought about taking a picture. I cannot say enough good things about these breakfast tacos.
The only other breakfast tacos we sampled were from Juanitas. Juanitas is downtowtown and in a caboose on blocks. When I went there four years ago it was called Taco Loco but I think the owner is the same and it certainly still has the same ramshackle charm as before. The tacos were almost as good as I remember them. Small, compact and full of greasy flavor they’re not as big as MiMadre’s or as flavorful as Porfirio’s but they’re easily some of the best breakfast food I’ve ever eaten.
If someone with some time and more resources is reading this, please bring breakfast tacos to NYC. If the city can have a Korean hot dog truck, we can handle breakfast tacos. I can’t wait four more years to eat these again.
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