The Dessau Estates food truck serves up tortas with a lengthy list of potential fillings and toppings. The torta de toreado is a favorite, filled with grilled onion, chile toreado, suadero, bacon, and queso blanco. There are outdoor dine-in areas, and takeout orders can be placed online.

This traditional panadería has two dine-in branches, this one in Wooten and the other near the South Congress neighborhood, both of which make its bolillos in-house. Try the torta cubana, filled with breaded steak, ham, sausage, and cheese; and the torta chilanga, with breaded steak, ham, Mexican chorizo, and cheese. The bakeries also offer a variety of baked goods like conchas and pan dulce. There are indoor dine-in spaces.

The huge tortas at the North Austin food truck are big enough to share between two to three people. The namesake chilanga torta is a torta de milanesa with beef, chorizo and egg, sausage, ham, and pork leg, which is drowned with toppings. The torta cubana is also especially noteworthy. There are multiple locations with outdoor dining areas.

The Blackland Mexican restaurant’s tortas are served with pickled jalapenos and escabeche (Mexican-style pickled vegetables) made in-house. As the name suggests, everything is made-to-order cooked on a plancha, a flat-top grill). The new-school tortas range from a jazzed-up version of the torta cubana with the La Three Little Pigs, full of pulled pork carnitas, smoked bacon, ham, chorizo, Oaxaca cheese, and dijonnaise; to the La Tejana, a barbacoa torta with avocado, crema, and queso fresco. It also offers a vegan black bean burger option with quinoa served on a bolillo. Indoor dining and online ordering are available.

The East Austin brewery’s breakfast torta served on a pan Francés roll with protein of choice (chorizo or carnitas are stellar) and topped with beans, egg, cheese, pico de gallo, and Mexican crema makes a perfect accompaniment to morning coffees. Along with breakfast tortas, it also serves tortas with a choice of carnitas, al pastor, carne asada, pollo verde, chipotle chicken, or black bean. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas; takeout orders can be placed online.

The daytime Bouldin Creek restaurant has been serving quality Tex-Mex food for almost a quarter century. The excellent tortas range from chicken fajita with grilled bell peppers and onions to carne asada. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The Dawson truck is the perfect place to pick up a late-night snack (or in the case of the tortas, enough for several snacks. The torta diabla — with ham, chorizo, egg, and cheese — is devilishly good, and make sure to check out its loaded hot dogs as well; the salchichones (sausages) can be topped with everything from mozzarella and jalapeños to mayonnaise and ham.

The Austin Mexican restaurants (this one in Westgate and the other in the Galindo neighborhood) offer a classic, no-frills torta milanesa and wonderful torta de tripa. There are indoor dine-in services.

Small but proud, this little taco truck parked in front of Cantina Guerrero in the Onion Bluff neighborhood has tortas where the buns are lightly toasted in butter layered with a choice of pastor, chicken fajita, beef fajita, chorizo, and steak. There are outdoor dine-in areas; takeout orders can be placed online.