East Austin, Austin · restaurant
Hidden down an alley off Pleasant Valley Road, this tiny café and bakery treats masa with the kind of attention most places reserve for fine dining. Two-day masa biscuits, tortillas whose color changes with the day’s corn, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand–recognized Masa Twinkie—a blue corn sponge filled with chocolate ganache and campfire fluff—have made it one of Austin’s most distinctive stops. The coffee program follows the same philosophy, built around Mexican-sourced beans infused with ingredients like marigold, moringa leaf, and black lime.