El Taco Loco food truck to open restaurant in downtown Danbury
DANBURY — The owner of El Taco Loco — a popular, local food truck specializing in genuine Mexican delicacies — is getting ready to open up a brick-and-mortar restaurant on Primary Street.
“This changeover took place very speedy, but we’re fired up to get this following stage,” El Taco Loco meals truck owner Noel Dominguez explained in an electronic mail.
The 25-yr Danbury resident is acquiring completely ready to open his to start with downtown cafe, which will have the exact title as his foods truck, at 317 Major St.
Following sitting down vacant for a few many years next the closure of Subway, the roughly 1,600-sq.-foot business room on the corner of Major and Crosby streets was remodeled into a Japanese-Latin restaurant identified as ItadakiMÀS, which shut its doorways past thirty day period immediately after a yr in business enterprise.
ItadakiMÀS owner Anna Llanos, who also owns Mothership Bakery & Café, mentioned she imagined 317 Primary St. would be wonderful for a taco store and decided to enable El Taco Loco shift into the house.
“It was a excellent prospect that was offered to us,” Dominguez claimed. “Anna has assisted us a good deal in figuring out how to open up (there) to grow our company and give it a shot.”
Dominguez entered Danbury’s foods scene three yrs ago with the El Taco Loco food truck.
“We’re Mexican and my spouse knows a lot of regular Mexican recipes, so my spouse, brother and I had the idea to get into the food business enterprise,” he explained.
Due to the fact July 2019, the El Taco Loco meals truck has been a loved ones-run company giving authentic Mexican dishes like tacos, burritos, quesadillas and tortas, as nicely as chips, guacamole and salsa.
“We truly try to present the flavors that we have again house in Mexico,” Dominguez said.
The El Taco Loco restaurant will offer the same goods as the food truck, according to Dominguez, who stated he options to carry on applying the truck for functions in the spot.
Dominguez mentioned he’s psyched for El Taco Loco to open up at 317 Principal St. and sees it as an prospect to not only grow the business enterprise, but discover more about the meals sector.
“We never have an exact date but — we are even now organizing everything and in the approach of having the place completely ready — but we’re hoping to open it in the up coming few of weeks,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, Dominguez claimed updates on the restaurant’s grand opening will be posted on El Taco Loco’s Facebook and Instagram web pages.
Yet another Danbury-region foods truck lately opened a storefront. Marcos and Leidimar Mendonca, the entrepreneurs of Cinnamon Churros — a food truck specializing in exceptional churros — opened a café on Outdated Hawleyville Road in Bethel.