a quick lunch

Destination · Mexico City tacos · East Austin · $

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Suadero comes off a choricera, the domed lard pan of Mexico City street stalls, and the cut here is brisket standing in for the thin one between sirloin and lower flank.

Destination · Mexican, tacos · North Lamar · $

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Start with suadero and carnitas, which is the order Nicolai McCrary gives a first-timer at the taqueria he scores 9.1.

Solid · Barbacoa tacos · Manor Road, East Austin · $

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The tortillas come out green and red, colored by spinach and other vegetables worked into the masa. The barbacoa is what goes in them.

Solid · BBQ · East Austin · $$

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A Central Texas barbecue joint with no brisket on the board and Akaushi tri-tip in its place.

Solid · Restaurant · Austin · $

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Alton Brown called the migas here the best breakfast taco he had ever had, back when the kitchen was a converted school bus parked at 1704 East Cesar Chavez.

Solid · Mexican, tacos · Austin · $

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The migas taco is built on tortilla chips the kitchen fries itself, which is why they stay crunchy under the egg and pico.

Solid · Seafood · North Loop · $$

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Gulf oysters run a dollar and the East Coast varieties around two, shucked at a bar that runs down the middle of the fish market.

Solid · Burgers · Menchaca · $

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The patties are ground from the trim off the pit's own smoked briskets, and smashing that trim thin gives the edges a crust a scoring critic rates among the best in Austin.

Solid · Burgers · Allandale, Burnet Road

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The patties cook in open flame in view of the door, which is where the char on the burger comes from.

Listed · Isaan Thai · Sunset Valley · $$

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Pad ka pow is the house plate: ground pork rich and savory, fried basil leaves aromatic and peppery, and an egg yolk jammy in the middle with crisp edges.

Solid · Carnitas · South Austin

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Gustavo Reyes opened this counter in the Texaco on Stassney in December 2016 with two hundred dollars, and he will tell you the whole recipe: pork lard, meat, garlic, salt, and a little bit of sugar.

Listed · Mexican · Austin · $

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Most Austin breakfast-taco counters keep two salsas going. Pueblo Viejo keeps five, out to a habanero and ghost chili.

Listed · Tacos · Downtown · $

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The bistec taco estilo Matamoros is always on, whatever else Joseph Gomez is cooking that day, and the corn under it is nixtamalized in this kitchen.

Listed · Bowls · Downtown · $$

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"Some of the most perfectly cooked salmon you'll find outside of a dedicated seafood joint," in The Infatuation's scored review, at 18.50 in a poke bowl counter inside Swift's Attic.

Listed · Tijuana-style tacos · Downtown · $

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A trompo turns in the window shaving al pastor while the grill finishes slabs of carne asada, at the back of a bar, down an alley.

Listed · Tijuana-style tacos · South Lamar · $

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The second Taqueria de Diez runs the alley original's tacos, volcanes and quesadillas, and adds grilled cactus and grab-and-go flan.

Listed · Shanghainese dumplings · Mueller · $$

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The pan-fried dumplings and the stir-fried noodles are the strong plates, and the xiao long bao turn up deflated.

Listed · Asian smokehouse · The Domain

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The oak-smoked brisket, the brisket cheeseburger and the curry chicken rice bowls travel to the Domain intact, and a handful of sandwich-and-side lunch combos exist only at this door.

Listed · Coffee · East Austin · $$

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The bar sits at almost waist height with the espresso machine installed below the counter, so the barista and the drinker can talk across it.

Listed · Mexican · East Austin · $

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Crispy tripas (beef tripe), lengua, carnitas and campechano in one order, which is exactly what the Infatuation tells you to do.

Listed · Mexican · Southeast Austin · $

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The burrito is built to the San Francisco Mission template, which means the rice is left out on purpose.

Listed · Hot chicken · South Lamar · $$

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Nashville hot chicken with a spice ladder long enough that the top of it, in the Nashville reviewer's words, tests even the mightiest tolerance for capsaicin.

Listed · Taiwanese tea · North Austin · $

walk-inthe room’s own account

I haven't been, and I haven't found a credible review.