AUSTIN, Texas — It's a name unlike any other: Austin-based JewBoy Burgers was the brainchild of owner Mo Pittle a decade ago, but the inspiration goes back even further.

"I was playing football in El Paso and somebody just said, 'jewboy,'" Pittle said. And the nickname stuck.

A winner of numerous "best burger" awards in Austin, Pittle calls his restaurant a celebration of cultures.

"Its not just the Jewish culture and the border culture, but it's the food culture," he said.

Growing up in El Paso, he eventually traveled across the U.S. while working in advertising.

"I went to school here at UT, went to San Diego, Phoenix, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C.," Pittle said.

But his true passion came calling and he followed his gut...literally.

"I'm not a chef and I make it a poin

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