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Puffy Tacos in San Antonio, TX, ranked by the locals who eat there.

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Top 4 Puffy Tacos in San Antonio

  1. 1

    Ray's Drive Inn

    West Side

    Texas Monthly 50 Best Tacos + San Antonio Taco Trail — the 1956 West Side drive-in widely credited as the birthplace of the puffy taco. Beef picadillo in a hand-pressed, flash-fried shell.

  2. 2

    Henry's Puffy Tacos

    Northwest Side

    San Antonio Taco Trail — Henry Lopez (Ray's brother) opened his own spot in 1978. The Bandera Road flagship is the other half of the Lopez-family puffy taco lineage.

  3. 3

    Eddie's Taco House

    Southtown

    Texas Monthly 50 Best Tacos + San Antonio Taco Trail — a cash-only Southtown counter known for puffy tacos and breakfast tacos, open since 1989.

  4. 4

    Los Barrios Mexican Restaurant

    North Central

    Co-owner Diana Barrios Treviño defeated Bobby Flay in a Food Network puffy taco Throwdown defending this specific recipe — crispy, airy, heavily loaded.

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