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This might come as a shock: I’m crazy about breakfast tacos. The eggs and whatever (maybe just barbacoa) filling a slightly spongy, warm flour tortilla preparation is my preferred morning meal. Breakfast tacos where you don’t expect them are even better, which led me to the Mixing Bowl Bakery.

The small operation, run out of a converted and slightly dilapidated house on Hampton Road south of Jefferson Boulevard, offers simple breakfast tacos Wednesday to Friday weekly and is decorated with seemingly every implement in every Abuelita’s kitchen armamentarium. Handheld mixers, graters, mezzalunas and spatulas are crammed in next to cartoon character-themed glassware, rusty lunchboxes and mid-century tchotchkes. In Spanish, one could say, “de todo un poco,” or call it a “mezcla.” Continue reading →

This week has seen the piling on of brisket taco love. And rightly so. Before all that hoopla, however, I ambled into Lockhart Smokehouse early last Saturday morning, tired from a move that took my family across the Trinity River to Oak Cliff, ready for grub. Specifically, brisket breakfast tacos, from pitmaster Will Fleischman, whose Monday brisket tacos I reviewed here.

Announced a day before the Mardi Gras weekend celebrations, the breakfast tacos were as much a product of my incessant fiddlingwith Lockhart leftovers and the posting of the resultant photos, my tweets encouraging the introduction of other tacos at the Bishop Arts District barbecue joint and the tinkering of the pitmasters and co-owners Jeff and Jill Bergus and Tim McLaughlin. The breakfast taco I was praying for and teased with the day before—one with Kreuz sausage—didn’t make it onto the menu that day. (“One day. We want to do it right, though.” Jeff Bergus teased again!) What did make it to the tables was an excellent example of the greatest thing to come out of Texas. Continue reading →