7 things to know in Austin food right now: Tex-Mex barbecue favorite fires up in the ’burbs
7 things to know in Austin food: Tex-Mex barbecue fave fires up move Buda will soon be smokin !
Openings Buda, get ready to smoke ’em when you get ’em brisket, that is. One of Austin’s best barbecue operations and official Austin FC vendor
Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ is set to make the move to Austin’s neighbor to the south. According to pit master and founder
Miguel Vidal, the forthcoming brick-and-mortar space (located in the historic
Buda Mill & Grain Co. shopping center at 306 S. Main St. alongside such operations as Nate’s Coffee and Cocktails and Sweet Cakes 4 U) will feature vastly expanded seating and prep space. Per the company’s Instagram account, the move is set to take place “within the next year or so,” with Valentina’s continuing to operate out of its South Austin location at 11500 Manchaca Rd. until then, as well as slinging tacos and sammie
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.
It s been a struggle, Kaplan said.
A question of timing
The issue, for many restaurants, has been timing. Staffers were let go in March 2020 and only a few at a time were hired back as restrictions eased. Now things are closer to normal and eateries need more staff, but some former employees have moved on or are holding out to find a better paying job or to take advantage of unemployment compensation while they figure out what s next. We had to cut back hours on staff members while we were doing takeout and delivery only (and) there were employees that chose to file unemployment since they needed more income, Turnpike Mike s Christina Batte wrote in a text message.