Austin Breakfast Taco Tour: Culinary Exploration
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17 Ratings
Austin
Embark on a culinary adventure in Austin with the Breakfast Taco Tour. Indulge in traditional and unique tacos while exploring the city's vibrant food scene. Book now!
Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • South Lamar - Taste your way through Austin’s South Lamar neighborhood on this breakfast taco tour! Sample tacos at three (3) different local spots. Enjoy refreshing aguas frescas and shared sides like chips, queso, and guacamole.
What's Included
  • Bottled water provided
  • Air-conditioned vehicle comfort
  • Breakfast included
  • Complimentary snacks
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic beverages like beer and margaritas are available for purchase
  • Tea and coffee
  • Gratuities
Meal Options
  • Chicon taco - Eggs, beef picadillo, potato, and queso
  • Cochinita pibil taco - Yucatán style braised pork, achiote, orange and pickled onions
  • Brentwood taco - Spinach, mushrooms, potato, avocado, pico de gallo (veg option)
  • Pollo a la parilla taco - Achiote rubbed grilled chicken topped with poblano pepper rajas, cabbage, queso fresco, and a slice of fresh avocado
  • Alambres taco - Grilled steak and bacon topped with poblano peppers, onions, provolone cheese, and a slice of fresh avocado
  • Hongos y epazote - Mushrooms with hominy, serranos, onions, epazote, queso fresco, and a slice of fresh avocado (veg option)
  • Adobada taco - Huajillo marinated pork topped with fresh cactus, queso fresco, and a slice of fresh avocado
  • Queso fresco taco - Avocado, black bean, lettuce, pico de gallo (veg option)
  • Chips, queso and guacamole
  • Aguas frescas - Horchata, hibiscus, tamarind
Additional Information

The breakfast taco holds a special place as Austin’s characteristic morning meal! If sampling local delicacies is your thing, then you absolutely cannot pass up the chance to try our diverse selection of imaginative tacos and irresistible queso! This journey takes you to three (3) distinct taco locations, showcasing everything from conventional tacos to the more extraordinary kind. Travel to each spot in a relaxingly cool Mercedes Sprinter van, led by your entertaining local guide. Arrive with an appetite and prepare to dig into Austin’s most tantalizing treats!

  • Animals/pets are NOT permitted on tour. Guests will a service dog must contact the tour operator in advance.
Location
Tommie Austin - JDV by Hyatt
San Jacinto Boulevard
Tour departs from TOMMIE AUSTIN HOTEL located at 506 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78701. Meet inside the Coffee Bar on the first floor at 9:45 AM.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(17 Ratings)
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Surfingandtravelling
May 12, 2024
Incredible food, amazing tour guide! - We signed up for the Breakfast Taco Tour and had the amazing luck of being guided around to 3 different taco spots with Jax Washington. Jax was personable, funny, so knowledgeable about Austin facts and history, and full of recommendations for great things to do tailored to our interests. She recommended we hop on one of the bat boat tours, and we ended up doing it (we hadn't heard about them before) and it was an excellent suggestion. We had such a wonderful experience, and can't recommend this tour enough. If you go to Torchy's, definitely order the queso!
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D9242tinicolee
Jan 29, 2024
Do the tour! - The tour was so much fun! Our guide told us the 3 tacos on the tour would be plenty of food and he was RIGHT! We were stuffed and happy by the end with lots of ideas of where to go next. I’m glad we did the tour!
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J_d
Jan 3, 2024
Good eatin' at a good price! - This was a great way to experience some of the different parts of Austin and to get a feel for the unique food culture of the city - and Holden was the perfect guide to lead the charge! We went to two mom-and-pop shops and then something a little more mainstream - this was on the Sunday before Christmas and the last local spot was closed. But I have absolutely NO complaints...I left with an overly full stomach and some good photo ops and possibly a new friend! Good times! Highly recommend!
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Explorer01378403116
Dec 30, 2023
Wicked tour with Joey - Joey took myself and my fiancé on a breakfast Taco tour from the Tommi hotel. He took us to some of the best spots in Austin and there was a lot of difference in the type of establishment which gave us a good feel for the Tacos available in Austin. Joey went above and beyond and gave us a lot of extra tips and places to visit during the rest of our trip and even a bit of a detour to other areas of Austin to help us scope out the city. 5* review for Joey and the tour.
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U2087iajohnl
Dec 18, 2023
Great Tour to get to know Tacos - We had the morning free before our flight left and after a wonderful experience with the Best of Austin tour, decided to go on the Breakfast Taco tour. Awesome expeirence. Had no idead tacos could be so varied and good. Kelty was fabulous. Highly recommend.
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Ptwmiami
Dec 17, 2023
Breakfast Tacos - Enjoyed the tour through the South Austin neighborhoods and the local Taco shops. Tour Guide Kelty was a 7th Gen Texas Resident who knew her subject and everything else you might have wanted to know about Austin!
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Dl6286
Aug 28, 2023
Enjoyable, unique food tour - My wife and I had the opportunity to go on the breakfast taco tour with Joey. He was very pleasant and informative throughout the day, both on Austin and it's happenings, the food scene, as well as the tacos. We went to 3 places to a variety of tacos, and I was especially impressed with the puffy tacos on the first stop. Would definitely encourage others to take advantage of this tour.
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Chicagocg22
Aug 21, 2023
Great guide - Avery was an excellent tour guide: funny, energetic, and full of interesting tidbits. The third spot, Taco Joint was delicious
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Richardmt6510tm
May 27, 2023
Taco tour with Conner - It was fun being driven to 3 really good Taco places that you wouldn’t normally go to if you were staying in town and didn’t have a car. Our guide Conner was informative not only about Tacos but also Austin itself and the music scene.
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Smrtdrmmr
Apr 1, 2024
Not what we expected - Not quite what we were expecting. This wasn't so much a breakfast taco tour, as a three stop "choose your taco" tour in the comfort of a nice van with a very friendly tour guide driver. Prior to this tour, we can just had the Migas taco at Veracruz All Natural and thought that the breakfast taco scene in Austin truly was as big of a deal as the buzz led us to to believe. During this tour, we started at El Chilito and were told that they were one of the only places outside of San Antonio that had the "puffy taco" style, so we tried that with picadillo beef and another Migas taco. The puffy taco was unimpressive, and the "puffy" tortilla just felt thicker and tougher than usual. The Migas taco from here was also super boring. The free queso that our group shared was pretty tasty, though. Next we went to Papalote where we tried the carnitas and Alambres tacos, both of which were actually very tasty, but neither of which was a breakfast taco (because we got to choose whatever we wanted, and our guide didn't really recommend the breakfast tacos here). We also got the horchata and hibiscus agua frescas with the meal, which were nice. Lastly, we ordered in advance for The Taco Joint because it gets so crazy busy, so finding seating for all of us was a little tricky, but we found a big table for the group and ordered another Migas taco, as well as the potato, egg, and cheese taco. Again, neither was particularly impressive, so kind of a bummer. Fwiw, I would encourage this tour add Veracruz All Natural Migas taco to the list and make it more prescriptive after identifying the best three or four breakfast tacos that can be hit in Austin in a morning. We had fun, so no regrets, but it wasn't what we expected, and now we feel that the breakfast taco scene is overhyped. :shrug:
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