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Texas Monthly – This Philly Breakfast Taco Joint Is the Owner’s Love Letter to Austin

Texas Monthly – This Philly Breakfast Taco Joint Is the Owner’s Love Letter to Austin

Posted on October 30, 2023

If you moved to Austin from the East Coast in the early nineties, there was not a slice of a New York–style pizza to be found that wasn’t disappointing. Your only options: catch a flight back home or make the scarcely less convenient trip to Reale’s in Cedar Park. And so it was until 2005, when Home Slice Pizza opened on South Congress Avenue.Until ten years ago, if you moved to just about anywhere outside of Texas, there was not a breakfast taco to be found, disappointing or otherwise. Your only option was to make your own flour tortillas and fillings, perhaps with the assistance of Lisa Fain’s The Homesick Texan blog.But now, Texpats in cities from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., can find them.…

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