Cuantos Tacos serves tremendous Mexico City-style street tacos in East Austin.

Marcelino’s, a scrappy operation on the East Side, makes excellent breakfast tacos.

In a gas station parking lot in Windsor Park, the trailer Taqueria Mi Trailita serves consistently outstanding tacos, especially breakfast tacos.

Taco-Mex hits that sweet spot in the breakfast taco venn diagram of cheap, fast, and good. It’s commonly known as “Taco Window.”

El Primo is a trailer that serves great breakfast tacos and quesadillas on South First Street.

Pueblo Viejo is a taco trailer down south at Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden, with great breakfast tacos.

The tacos coming out of Tacos Guerreros, a tiny, orange, one-woman trailer on the East Side, are spectacular.

The family-run Joe's Bakery & Coffee Shop is an East Side staple serving Tex-Mex/Mexican diner food that’s been around since 1962.

Dai Due Taqueria - an offshoot of the East Austin butcher shop/restaurant - makes al pastor and breakfast tacos in the downtown food hall Fareground.

Taco Bronco is a barbecue/taco trailer from the Micklethwait people in the shady backyard of Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches on the East Side.

Nixta Taqueria serves some of the best tacos in the city out of a low-key space in East Austin.

Franklin Barbecue’s Tacos & Coffee trailer in East Austin serves breakfast tacos using their famous smoked brisket.

Vaquero Taquero by campus serves great al pastor and breakfast tacos to UT students who don’t know how good they have it.

Discada on the east side only serves one type of taco, but that’s because they’ve perfected it.

Las Perlas downtown is one of the best places to drink a whole bunch of mezcal.

There are many places to get great tacos in Austin, and Torchy’s Tacos is one of them.