Puffy tacos have a storied life in San Antonio, with their origins debated amongst taco purists to this day. A recent thread on a popular Facebook group looked beyond who invented puffy tacos and instead sought to answer a different question: Who has the best puffy tacos in San Antonio?
A post on the San Antonio Restaurants Facebook group brought up the question of which restaurants serve up the best puffy tacos, and of course, the usual suspects were mentioned in the comments. Unsurprisingly, Ray’s Drive Inn and Henry’s Puffy Tacos both had more than 20 mentions apiece in the thread, which has gathered 165 comments as of 11 a.m. on Monday, May 18.
Some other San Antonio restaurants that received love on the puffy taco post include Taco House, Teka Molino and Los Barrios, among so many others. A few folks even named restaurants that are no longer around, such as Jacala Mexican Restaurant, which closed in 2022 after a fire ended its 68-year run, and the long-lost Oscar’s Taco House, a staple for 63 years before shuttering in 2025.
Of course, there were at least a handful of responses that treated the topics with much less seriousness, throwing in joke options like Taco Bell and Jack In The Box amongst a sea of genuine comments. One person even said their baby mama made the best puffy tacos in San Antonio. This sort of levity reminds all of us that the best puffy tacos are in the eye of the beholder, and let’s face it, we’d all rather be holding a mid puffy taco than none at all…