This breakfast taco is the best thing I ate in Austin.
for the very first time, I noticed on a table close to the line a giant game of Jenga. I hastily pulled one block out, and the whole room turned silent as the tower collapsed to the floor. The same silence would fill the room for me as I took my first bite of the egg and chorizo breakfast taco.
There was something in the simplicity of it: the soft chew on the egg; the freshness of the pico tossed atop, providing crunch and necessary acidity; and the simmered sausage that kicked up the spice and gave the taco legs. All of it, combined together within a perfectly warm flour tortilla, caught me off guard. I didn’t expect it to taste as good as it did. A breakfast taco.Most people who lived in Austin before the boom of tech will tell you the same thing: It used to be weirder.
But the story of Austin is one of perseverance. It’s of waiting out the desert heat wave in an air-conditioned dive bar with a pool table and live music, helping yourself to pitchers of Shiner Bock as your buddy racks up another game. It’s of finding a niche under the Texas sun until the drought ends, and crisp liquid gold rushes through the creek once more.No other place in Austin epitomizes the enduring drive of its locals better than Maria’s Taco Xpress.
Outside of Maria’s, there's a gargantuan statue of the owner, Maria Corbalan, with outstretched arms. She surveys South Lamar Boulevard, watches as it changes, day in, day out. She welcomes in all of the tired, huddled masses, yearning to breathe in the bountiful aroma wafting through the kitchen and spilling onto the wood-decked patio. She promises a serve-yourself salsa bar, and a Topo Chico or Jarritos to wash down breakfast.
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