Austin-Style Breakfast Tacos in New York City || Fork Yeah: King David Tacos

As the bagel is to New York, the breakfast taco is to Austin. It’s the morning meal of champions, the curer of hangovers, and a city-wide unifier. But as any Austin transplant will tell you, there’s a massive breakfast taco drought in New York City. Enter King David Tacos, an authentic Austin-style breakfast taco stand helmed by Austinite Liz Solomon. After working in advertising for years, she decided to change careers and dedicate her life to the pursuit of the perfect breakfast tacos. Following the mantra of the Austin breakfast taco, Liz stuffs flour tortillas with a simple yet superb mixture of egg-filled Tex-Mex bliss. Her latest and most popular taco, Mom’s Migas, uses a combination of tortilla chips, jalapeno rajas, and her mother’s salsa recipe all mixed in with fluffy, soft scrambled eggs. It’s pure Lone Star bliss.

Producer
Chas Truslow

Associate Producer
Phoebe Melnick

Camera Operators
Phoebe Melnick, Gunsel Pehlivan

Editor
Zachary Lapierre

Animator
Fredy Delgado

Graphics Art Director
Ted McGrath

Line Producer
Emily Tufaro

Production Coordinator
Sarah Barry

Senior Producer
Earl Jordan

Post-Production Supervisor
Daniel Byrne

Supervising Producer
Stasia Tomlinson

Creative Director
Tom O’Quinn

Executive Producer
Justin Lundstrom

Special Thanks
King David Tacos

Music:
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00:02:02
“Flight to Nuyorica” by Leigh Gracie
00:57:17
“Roaming District” by Pierre Aviat
03:42:10

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– All the birds are just congregating by me. This is great. What? It’s rush hour. It’s breakfast. Sirens. Ah, a New York symphony. Hey everyone, it’s Chas from Thrillist, and today we’re in the heart of the Financial District. But we’re not here to talk about stocks. We’re here for breakfast tacos.

I’m on the corner of Water and Wall Street to check out this small taco cart called King David Tacos. Word on the street is they sell the most authentic Austin style breakfast tacos in the entire city. I’m gonna go meet up with owner Liz Solomon to talk tacos, check out their production facility,

And of course try ’em out myself. It’s taco time. – When I came here and I worked in advertising for a decade, you know, it was always very apparent to me that something was missing. I think any Texan you ask is gonna say, the breakfast taco is glaringly

Missing from the food scene here. The reason I started it is, breakfast tacos I grew up on in Austin, and ones I think are still most prevalent there, aren’t super indulgent. It’s not like, you know, super cheesy, greasy taco, but it’s something that’s really convenient and fulfilling for your breakfast.

I believe you have to kind of start from the foundation, and you kind of have to nail like what is a foundational breakfast taco, and what are the truest to its roots. But I think overcomplicating it really takes it away from what makes Tex Mex flavor Tex Mex flavor.

– Wow guys, this is so sick. We just picked up three of the Mom’s Migas tacos, and no breakfast taco experience is complete without a little Topo Chico. Let’s check these out. Ooh, look at this little guy. Piping hot. Let’s take a peek in here. Look at that cheese. Ooh.

Now if you’ve never had migas before, in Austin it’s almost like chilaquiles. It’s a mixture of tortilla strips, and egg, and salsa all mixed together with some cheese. It’s a great way to start off your morning. Now, they also added a little salsa verde for us,

And I feel like throwing this on here is a no brainer. Oh yeah, look at that salsa verde. This looks so good. Can’t wait to try this. Now, the first thing that I’m noticing is this tortilla. It is so soft, but warm. It’s got a bit of chew to it,

But it’s not like gummy. At King David they’re actually importing these tortillas direct from Austin. Keeping it as authentic as possible. This salsa verde in here is so good. It adds a little extra heat. It also is sort of a cool pairing with the red salsa they’ve got in there too.

It’s a nice sort of yin and yang going on inside the breakfast taco. And the cheese in here, it’s really nothing crazy. It’s your average Cheddar, but what it does is it adds this nice hit of fat to the eggs and is also binding this whole mixture together.

Making it really a napkin-free experience. It’s killer. I’m gonna finish off this last breakfast taco, but if you wanna see some more Austin food videos check out our Fork Yeah from LeRoy and Lewis. Where they serve a quail stuffed with macaroni & cheese. Also, be sure to subscribe to Thrillist,

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