Tacos
Are You Ready for the 120 Tacos You Must Eat Before You Die?
Are You Ready for the 120 Tacos You Must Eat Before You Die?…
So Many Tacos, So Little Time: The Making Of Our ‘Texas Monthly’ Best Tacos List
The poor 'Texas Monthly' taco team had to eat soooo many tacos.
Taco Cannon Controversy Continues
The Taco Cannon, which debuted at Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2012, once again fights to be recognized as the world’s first. …
User’s Guide to Tacos
Texans LOVE their tacos. Versatile, portable, and quick to wolf down, tacos are made with either corn or flour tortillas. In their different styles, you can trace more than half a century of Texas’s Mexican-food history.
Puffy Tacos
Oil, masa, air bubbles, and the filling of your choice—do you really need anything else?…
As You Might Expect, All Of The Most “Taco-Crazed” Cities In America Are In Texas
A real estate blog has released a list with quantifiable data to prove what we already knew: People in Texas really love tacos. …
Sword-Wielding San Antonio Man Demands Free Tacos From Restaurant
He wanted six tacos, and if his sword had anything to say about it, those tacos were going to be free.
Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ
My first trip to Valentina’s was on a whim. I stopped at the trailer behind the Star Bar on Sixth Street in Austin on my way out of town. A friend was writing a story on taco variations, and I thought I might be able to add a novelty to…
VIDEO: How to Load and Fire the Taco Cannon
Fun Fun Fun Fest's most unique "headliner" returns, firing bean, cheese and tortilla ammunition—and possibly some Twinkies—across Austin's Auditorium Shores. …
The Most Important Taco of the Day
Breakfast! A multi-generational history of the breakfast taco, via Austin institution the Tamale House. Excerpted from the new book "Austin Breakfast Tacos."…
Six World Records Set in Texas…and Four More That Need to Be
World's biggest Frito pie? Check. Most consecutive back handsprings? Got it. Largest pecan pie? Indeed. But when it comes to some truly important Guinness records, Texas is playing second enchilada.
What Makes Fun Fun Fun Fest Fun Fun Fun
From the taco cannon to the "I'm With Gosling" underwear, why the Austin music festival that's not SXSW or ACL delivers on its name. …
How the World’s First Taco Cannon Was Developed
The Fun Fun Fun Fest "Taco Cannon" will fire flour projectiles at the Austin music festival crowd on Auditorium Shores this weekend.
Taco Bell Has Sold 100 Million Doritos Locos Tacos
That's good news for Doritos' parent company, Plano's Frito-Lay, especially since Taco Bell has plans to use Cool Ranch and Hot and Spicy taco shells. …
Talking Tacos With Gustavo Arellano
The "¡Ask a Mexican!" columnist and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America talks about Tex-Mex, Houston versus Dallas, and Ray's versus Henry's. …
Did Taco Bell Help Make Mexican Food Better?
¡Ask a Mexican! columnist and OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano, whose new book Taco USA comes out in April, makes his case.
Taco-Related Crimes Are Surprisingly Unhilarious
Texas has five entries on Buzzfeed's "30 Best Taco-Related Crimes Ever," but the mere presence of tortillas doesn't make crime funny. …
Trailer Thursday: Coreanos
One, two, three, four. I declare a food truck war! Spotted: The Coreanos guy grinning sly while saying, “We tried what Chi’Lantro had to offer, and we thought we could do better.” Them’s L.A. fightin’ words! He wasn’t just blowing smoke from the grill, either.
Trailer Thursday: Chi’Lantro
Relax, y’all. Sure, there are more Californians stampeding to Texas than surfing the waves off their own coast these days, but there’s an upside, at least for Austinites. Not only are the people of the Golden State migrating this way, so is the latest golden trend:…
Our Cover Is Blown
IT WILL SHOCK AND DISTURB YOU—OR MAYBE it won’t—to learn that there are no original ideas in the magazine business; there are only good, worthwhile, creative riffs on original ideas. All of us who assign stories know what we like, and our job is to figure out how to do…
The Greatest Tacos Ever Sold
Sixty-three of them, to be exact: from picadillo in Dallas and brisket tinga in Houston to carne asada gringa in San Antonio and chorizo-and-jalapeño in McAllen. Be sure you don’t leave this earth without trying each and every one.
From Mexico With Love
Out of the Texas melting pot comes a food hot enough to melt anything.