Eldorado Cafe is a casual Mexican/Tex-Mex restaurant in North Shoal Creek from the longtime chef of Tacodeli.

Espresso, coffee, and beans by-the-pound out of a small trailer in East Austin.

Hoover’s Cooking is a Texan/Southern comfort food spot in East Austin.

Paperboy only serves breakfast, but it does it extremely well..

Patika Coffee is a coffee shop on South Lamar Boulevard serving excellent pastries and kind of healthy dishes.

Lou’s Austin is an East Austin restaurant serving burgers, rotisserie chicken, and coffee.

Bummer Burrito is a trailer on Rainey Street from the Better Half people. They serve burritos with Fritos and jalapeno poppers in them.

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.

In the middle of the lobby of the Line Hotel downtown is a walk-up counter location of Alfred, a mini-chain of trendy coffee shops out of LA.