Marisol has covered Texas food for more than a decade, from border panaderías to Hill Country meat markets. She has ordered a breakfast taco in all 254 counties, and was a 2024 James Beard Award nominee for food writing. She joined Best of Texas in 2019.
Marisol grew up between Laredo and San Antonio, which is a useful place to be from
if you intend to spend your career arguing about tortillas. She started at a weekly
in the Rio Grande Valley, spent six years at a Houston monthly, and now runs food
coverage here.
She is the reason this publication visits every place twice.
A blue corn pancake with cajeta, a caviar-topped latke, and a soufflé that takes twenty minutes because it should. The Dallas brunch argument, settled for 2026.
Six Michelin stars, two brand new James Beard medals, and a brisket line that forms before the doors unlock. The biggest food city in Texas, argued down to ten.
