These breakfast cousins are often mistaken for each other. But they have some fundamental (and delectable) differences.
The migas bowl, migas platter, and chilaquiles plate at Tía Dora’s Bakery in Dallas.
Photograph by Mackenzie Smith Kelley
Arrive too late at Tía Dora’s Bakery on any morning, and you’ll find yourself standing in line on the sidewalk. Seven days a week, the crowd in Dallas’s Oak Cliff neighborhood patiently waits for the restaurant’s rapturous tamales, breakfast tacos served on spongy house-made flour tortillas, and a vibrantly colored array of pan dulce pastries. Spanish and English are heard sporadically from those gathered outside; mostly, there’s silence. Such is the intense draw of Tía Dora’s even though the coronavirus has prompted management to shut down indoor dining.
Ruben Reyes, age 67, of Brownwood passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2020, at home surrounded by his family. Graveside Services for Ruben will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday, December 21, 2020, at Greenleaf Cemetery with Pastor Emmanuel Jimenez officiating; visitation will be held Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m. at Blaylock Funeral Home of Brownwood. Arrangements are under the direction of Blaylock Funeral Home of Brownwood. Ruben Flores Reyes was born on July 2, 1953, to Margarita (Flores) Reyes and Maximo Garcia Reyes in Uvalde, Texas; he was an only child. As a young man, he quit school and began working with his parents doing migrant farm work in Uvalde and throughout Texas. In 1969, during the winter off-season in Texas, he accompanied his parents to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin to work at the Green Giant canning factory. It was there, that at the age of 16, he met the love of his life, Suzanne. After the canning factory closed for the season, they parted ways and reunited in 1972.