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Late Desayuno, Anyone?

Fri Oct 06, 2006 at 10:55:51 AM
Photos by Robb Walsh
El Ultimo at Long Point and Antoine: One of the few tacos trucks that specializes in breakfast.

El Ultimo Breakfast Taco

El Ultimo Taco is the name of a shiny new taco truck parked in front of a carwash at the Southwest corner of Long Point and Antoine. I pulled over one morning because I saw the word "desayuno" painted on the side of the truck. The sanitary standards here are exceptional. Both the man and woman behind the counter were wearing hair nets!

You hardly ever see breakfast tacos in Mexico. Bacon and eggs on a flour tortilla is a Tex-Mex invention. And, in fact, El Ultimo Taco is the only taco truck I've seen in Houston with a wide selection of breakfast tacos. (Please tell me if you know of others!)

Pretty amazing for a buck apiece.

You can get scrambled eggs mixed with bacon, ham, potatoes, nopalitos, machacado (shredded beef), chorizo, or roasted peppers on a corn or flour tortilla for a dollar a piece. And the tacos are huge. There's no coffee, but there fresh fruit agua frescas available.

I sampled three egg tacos, one with machacado, one with nopalitos and one with chorizo. The flour tortillas were hand made and all three tacos were generously stuffed. They all tasted great, but the chorizo was truly exceptional. And the thick green salsa served on the side was super hot.

Highly recommended for your proximo desayuno! -- Robb Walsh

3 Comments:

terry bale says:

robb to tell if you have a good taco hold it in your hand and eat it normaly, after a minute the grease should be running down your arm to your elbow. see felix or larry,s good stuff.if you do not like real texmex try taco bell they are not greasy.ps make my grease with lard and what happened to George,s.

And you can tell a great taco eater by the fact that his head is permanently tilted sideways

brucesw says:

La Tacasita, a taco bus just outside Beltway 8 on Bissonnet has a breakfast menu. I've never been at that hour and what I have had there was not too impressive. It's been there for some years and used to be in the parking lot of Auchan.

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