The name gives it away before you walk in. Señor Oink is a carnitas taquería in Farmers Branch that serves one thing — pork — and has exactly zero apologies about it. Mauricio Gallegos, who also owns Xamán Café and the Esquire-recognized Ayahuasca Cantina on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff, opened this place with a specific idea in mind: a true carnitas spot, the way they exist in Mexico, where the menu is not a menu so much as a conversation about which part of the pig you’d like today. “Traditionally, when you go to a carnitas spot back home, that’s all they serve,” Gallegos says. “No fusion, no long menus, just different cuts of pork done right, with great tortillas and salsas.” The name, he will tell you, is also a nod to the sound a pig makes. He is not embarrassed about this.
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