Now Open in Downtown Elgin! 101 S Main St, Elgin, TX 78621 · Now booking catering Directions
The Uncle Pocko's Kitchen and Smoke food truck
Now Open · Downtown Elgin

Uncle Pocko'sKitchen & Smoke

Big portions, bigger flavor and fairer prices. Every plate is made to order with local ingredients. Our goal is to be community first, not profit first. The way food used to be, before plates got smaller and prices got bigger. Traditional “fast food” has gotten so bad, but we’ve never paid more for it. We’d had enough, so we did something about it. Join us!

Now open at our new downtown address101 South Main St, Elgin, TX 78621
Hours
Mon – Fri6 AM – 1:30 PM4:30 – 8 PM
Saturday8 AM – 3 PM5 – 8 PM
Sunday11 AM – 4 PM
Brand New · Limited Batch

Introducing Homestead Heat

A smoky red sauce made with Carolina Reaper and serrano peppers, sourced in Elgin from Simple Promise Farms.

Packed with fresh flavor and smoked in small batches, this sauce brings the heat after a burst of unique flavor. We give it a 6/10 on the subjective hot scale. Come try it and tell us what it really is!

Limited number of bottles availableGrab yours at the truck, 101 South Main St in Elgin, while they last.
Bottles of Homestead Heat, a smoky red-orange hot sauce, lined up on the counter
Bottled by hand
Uncle Pocko's Small Batch Sauces Homestead Heat hot sauce label: a cowboy and his dog roasting red chiles over a campfire under the stars
What Elgin's Saying

Straight from the line.

★★★★★
★★★★★
“My husband and I are on our way to Austin and found this little food truck serving up some of the best breakfast tacos we’ve had in some time. The eggs were soft, with just the right amount of melted cheese and crumbed bacon in a hot delicious tortilla. But the true star of the show, was the homemade tomatillo salsa! I had to get a whole bottle to take home. This was exactly what we needed to start our weekend away from Houston! We will be back:) Thank you!”
Rachel StonebrookGoogle Review · Food 5/5 · Service 5/5 · Atmosphere 5/5
★★★★★
“Tried there pulled pork sandwich today 🥰 the best 💯. Definitely recommend this place. There breakfast tacos amazing 👌”
Joe GarzaGoogle Review
★★★★★
“This is absolutely the best place to go for lunch and breakfast highly recommend”
Cody BermudezGoogle Review · Food 5/5 · Service 5/5 · Atmosphere 5/5
Featured booth · Saturday, Nov 7 · 4–8 PM

6th Annual Hot Sauce Hootenanny

Simple Promise Farms, Elgin, TX. Find us at our featured booth for a taste of Cowboy Campfire Verde and our homemade salsas.

Meet the Hot Sauce
Seasoned pork belly cubes on the smoker grate
Pork belly burnt ends, fresh off the smoker
Kitchen & Smoke

Cooked for love, not profit.

Every order is made when you order it, by hand. We source from local producers whenever we can, from the eggs and thick-cut bacon in our breakfast tacos to the peppers in our hot sauce, grown on a hand-tilled farm a few miles from the truck. Our money stays with our neighbors.

We make our hot sauces and salsas from scratch, and every meal comes with chips and a drink.

We don't answer to shareholders. We answer to the folks in line.

HeartyYou'll leave full
Fair PricesLike it used to be
LocalFrom our neighbors
Made From Scratch

Homemade, start to finish.

If we can make it ourselves, we do. That's how it used to be done, and it's still the best way we know.

Poblanos, tomatillos, jalapeños and tomatoes roasting on the smoker
Fire-Roasted PeppersPoblanos, jalapeños and tomatillos smoked for our hot sauces and salsas.
Homemade ranch dressing with dill
Homemade RanchWhisked by hand in small batches.
Burgers on the flat-top topped with grilled mushrooms, onions, peppers, jalapeño cream cheese and pepper jack
Pressed by HandBurgers built to order on the flat-top.
Uncle Pocko's Cowboy Campfire Verde hot sauce label — a cowboy and his dog by a campfire roasting green chiles
Uncle Pocko's Small Batch Sauces

Cowboy Campfire Verde

This is our first bottled hot sauce. We roast tomatillos, poblanos and green chiles over live fire, then blend them with onion, cilantro, lime and garlic. It's smoky, bright and made for breakfast tacos, burnt ends and anything else coming off the grill.

What's insideTomatillos, green chile peppers, onions, cilantro, lime juice, garlic, salt, natural flavors.
Grab a bottle at the truckAsk at the window next time you stop by.

Our homemade salsas are on the table with every meal, alongside chips and a drink. New: Homestead Heat, our red hot sauce, is out now in limited bottles.

Our Story

Started on a farm.

It started in late 2023. Nick and I were two guys who couldn't drink anymore, but couldn't stop either. I was in Minnesota; he was in Katy. Somehow our paths crossed in Elgin, Texas.

We ended up working on a farm, no doubt paying for our sins and wondering where we went wrong. How did we…?

Day after day, we planted peppers by hand (mostly poorly), hand-tilled soil, weeded, trimmed, harvested, put up greenhouses, and even sold produce at the Elgin and Austin farmers markets. You name it, we did it. Pretty good for a couple of drunks at the time, I must say.

On one of those miserable, windy, rainy days in January, we were chatting like we always did to pass the time, and one of us said, "Whatever happened to the sense of community we grew up with?"

That's a rabbit hole for another day. But that conversation, and the batches of smoky hot sauce experiments and lessons in smoking meat that followed, in the kitchen and over the pit, grew into what is today Uncle Pocko's.

Kitchen & Smoke is our food truck. Cowboy Campfire Verde is the first hot sauce in our small-batch line.

Welcome. We'd appreciate it if you gave us a shot. You won't leave hungry, or feeling like you've been fleeced because your pickle was thicker than the burger.

Good Food. Brighter Days.Full Stomachs · Fair Prices · Cooked With Love
Meet Our Suppliers

Good food starts with good people.

We cook with ingredients from producers we know and trust, and we think you should know them too.

Free-Range Wild Game

Broken Arrow Ranch

Texas · Family-owned since 1983

Our wild game specials start here. Broken Arrow Ranch sources truly wild, free-range animals from private Texas ranches, field-harvested and all-natural. Now run by the second generation of the Hughes family, they've supplied Texas chefs for over 30 years.

  • Wild Venison
  • Wild Boar
  • Antelope
  • Texas Quail
Visit Broken Arrow Ranch ↗
Pasture-Raised Eggs

Hailey's Happy Hens

Elgin, Texas · Local Farm

Every breakfast taco starts with a good egg, and ours come from right here in Elgin. Hailey's Happy Hens supplies the pasture-raised eggs we cook to order every morning, so when you buy a plate from us, you're supporting a neighbor too.

  • Pasture-Raised Eggs
  • Local to Elgin
  • In Every Breakfast Taco
Find them on Facebook ↗
Meats

City Meat Market

Giddings, Texas · Family-Owned

A true Texas institution. City Meat Market has been a meat market and processor in Giddings for more than 70 years, and a two-time Texas Monthly Top 50 barbecue joint. Today it's run by Brooke and Chris Kovar, carrying on her father's legacy, and we're proud to put their meat on our menu.

  • Meat Market
  • House-Made Sausage
  • Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ
Find them on Facebook ↗
Fresh Vegetables

Simple Promise Farms

Elgin, Texas · Nonprofit Farm

Our vegetables come from a few miles down the road. Simple Promise Farms is an Elgin nonprofit that grows fresh produce and helps people rebuild their lives through meaningful farm work, "where hope and healing take root." Every pepper, onion and tomato we buy from them supports that mission.

  • Peppers
  • Onions
  • Tomatoes
  • Seasonal Produce
Visit Simple Promise Farms ↗   Facebook ↗
Find the Truck

Come hungry.

Where
101 South Main St, Elgin, TX 78621
Now open at our new home in downtown Elgin.
When
Mon – Fri: 6 AM – 1:30 PM & 4:30 – 8 PM
Saturday: 8 AM – 3 PM & 5 – 8 PM
Sunday: 11 AM – 4 PM
Serving
Thick, juicy burgers, breakfast and lunch tacos (chorizo, ground beef, wild game or barbacoa) and wild game specials. Every meal comes with a drink and chips with your choice of our homemade hot sauces and salsas.
Order
Walk up to the window, or order on DoorDash and Uber Eats.
Catering
Feeding a crew? We cater office lunches, parties and events with burgers, tacos, homemade salsas and chips. Call us at (832) 457-9608, or place a large order through DoorDash or Uber Eats.
Uncle Pocko's food truck with its desert mural and cowboy-hat dog mascot
Look for the dog in the cowboy hat