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In Your Cocktail: Taco Naco
The 100-watt smile on the chef Fernanda Reyes’s face can be seen from across the room as she delivers her signature street tacos and trays of crispy tortilla chips and fresh guacamole to tables filled with guests at her new Westport cantina she co-owns with husband…
Great Day KC - Be Our Guest: Taco Naco KC is Back!
This TACO TUESDAY score a $50 gift certificate for only $25 bucks thanks to FOX4BEOURGUEST.com. Get your discount while supplies last! It’s good for both locations, including their new Westport location.
Restaurants to try during Hispanic Heritage Month, as picked by Kansas Citians
Offering a modern approach to traditional Mexican food, Taco Naco KC is a quick, reliable option for the Johnson County suburbs. Each dish is vibrant and fresh, topped with a rainbow of garnishes. Addi tried three different tacos — pork al pastor, brisket barbacoa and carne asada chimichurri. While I would eat all three again…
Tacos, frozen mezcal pina coladas: JoCo Mexican place opens new Kansas City location
Street tacos with fresh ingredients and a bit of chef’s flair, mezcal bottles on the wall, patio high seats overlooking the Westport sidewalk: It’s hard not to compare Taco Naco, which opened at 4144 Pennsylvania last week…
Taco Naco Opening a Second Location
In the most satisfying display of good karma and luck seen this year, the chef Fernanda Reyes and her husband and partner, Brian Goldman Ruiz, will open their second Taco Naco location in the former Port Fonda space in Westport. After two years running their popular Overland Park taqueria and Mexican market…
Beloved Taqueria Expands With Second Location
From farmer’s market pop-up in 2019 to full-service restaurant, Taco Naco is having a wildly successful ride. Ranked 22 on our Top 40 KC Restaurants list, the beloved taqueria is now working on a second location in the heart of Westport (4141 Pennslyvania Ave. Suite 103 KCMO).
Taco Naco owners bring tastes — and sounds and feel — of Mexico to KC location
Taco Naco has signed a lease to open its second area location inside the former Port Fonda space in Kansas City’s Westport neighborhood. It’s an exciting, yet nerve-racking moment, Taco Naco co-founder Brian Goldman Ruiz said. “It’s a whole new venture that we’re getting involved in…”
Johnson County’s Taco Naco Expanding to Westport
Overland Park’s Taco Naco KC is taking over the former Port Fonda space in Westport. It plans a mid-to-late summer opening. “We see Westport becoming a culinary center,” said Taco Naco KC partner …
Taco Naco’s New Year tamales
Taco Naco has been making waves since it debuted as a vendor at the award-winning Overland Park Farmers Market. Since opening their restaurant in a strip mall in downtown Overland Park, the taqueria features an extensive menu of mouthwatering tacos, salsas, …
Taco Naco’s Chef Fernanda Reyes serves up some of the best tacos in OP
Taco Naco chef and owner Fernanda Reyes says she first remembers helping out in her family’s kitchen around the age of 5-years-old. “My grandfather and brother opened a small restaurant, so I was always tagging along, trying to help, and …”
The Pitch’s secret menu - Taco Naco KC
From the minute Fernanda Reyes opened her pop-up stand at the Overland Park Farmers’ Market a few years ago, guests started clamoring for her gourmet street tacos. Each week, lines grew exponentially longer. That’s when …
Kansas City Magazine: Best New Restaurants 2021 - Taco Naco KC
For this list of Kansas City’s best new restaurants, we looked at places that have opened since March 2020. We paid our own way and did not announce ourselves…
Feast Magazine: Kansas City's best new restaurants of 2021
In early 2020, after a year of catering events and organizing pop-ups, chef Fernanda Reyes set up her first Taco Naco booth at the Overland Park Farmers’ Market, serving both traditional and contemporary street tacos hot off the grill and selling handcrafted salsas, dips, taco meal kits and even Margarita mix to take home. A native of Durango, Mexico, and a graduate of the Instituto Culinario de México, Reyes was ultimately convinced…
Latino Medical Student Association and Taco Naco KC partner for local charity
This Wednesday, October 27th, come enjoy delicious food and drinks at Taco Naco KC and give back to a great local cause. 15% of the total proceeds will be donated to Juntos, a local organization devoted to advancing Latin health in the KC area…
Univision: Jarritos Alimienta a la Comunidad a Apoyar a sus Taquerías Locales #RespectTheTaco
Jarritos alienta a la comunidad a apoyar a sus taquerías locales.
Jarritos feeds the community to support local Hispanic-owned taquerias.
Free taco at Overland Park restaurant on Taco Tuesday
Taco Tuesday comes with a freebie this week. Jarritos Mexican Soda is referred to as the “official drink of tacos,” according to the company. On Oct. 12 the company will pick up the tab for customers who drop by Taco Naco KC in Overland Park…
The Harbinger: Let’s Taco-Bout Business - East alum Brian Goldman uses skills learned in Marketing, DECA and Macroeconomics in his taqueria, “Taco Naco”
Standing at the front of class with a key lime in hand, 2007 East alum Brian Goldman listed the primary qualities of the green citrus: its sweet taste, the authentic Latin-American vibe and the tropical ambience…
Shawnee Mission Post: Latino-owned businesses in Johnson County to support during Hispanic Heritage Month and beyond
Although Hispanic Heritage Month ends on Oct. 15, there's time during and beyond the month to support Latino-owned businesses in Johnson County. That includes Taco Naco KC in downtown Overland Park, which is owned by Fernanda Reyes Gonzalez, who says she tries to infuse aspects of her family's …
FOX4 Great Day KC: From Mexico To Overland Park, Meet The Chef At Taco Naco KC
She’s originally from Mexico, and now she and her husband are serving up Tacos at Taco Naco KC. She’s telling her story of moving from her hometown to Dublin, Ireland before landing in the Midwest. See how she’s developed her family recipes to fit local tastes for the meat-eaters and vegans.
Tacos off the tourism trail
Great taquerias don’t always cater to the chips-and-margs set, but Overland Park’s Taco Naco mostly succeeds in balancing regional Mexican flavors with nods to Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex-loving customers.
It’s hard to blame chef Fernanda Reyes and her husband …
