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Originally Posted by SpookyShoe

My DH and I went here for lunch today. I had carnitas and DH had a skirt steak.

Fajita lore tells us that in the 1930s and 1940s Mexican vaqueros working in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas first put skirt steak (a cheap cut) into a tortilla. Then came Juan Antonio "Sonny" Falcon, who opened the first commercial fajita stand in Kyle, Texas, a little south of Austin. The stands spread all over the state.

But the lady who is credited with introducing the fajita craze (tacos al carbon) to America is Mama Ninfa Laurenzo, a Mexican-American woman, who opened a restaurant in Houston's Second Ward (Segundo Barrio) in 1973. The place became the "cool" place to go and remains so for fajitas, margaritas, and a great outdoor patio.

I ate there in the early 80's.