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The tiny red trailer parked in the Monarch Food Mart lot next door to Cherrywood Coffeehouse is slinging some of the tastiest breakfast tacos in town. Norma Flores makes both flour and corn tortillas by hand every morning, and by the 7am opening, there’s a line. Don’t worry: Her tacos fly out of the sugar-skull-decorated window faster than the Frost Bank Tower’s resident peregrine falcon. Be sure to use every drop of that secret recipe green salsa.
This article appears in June 14 • 2019.
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