Feast Magazine: Kansas City's best new restaurants of 2021
Excerpt from Feast Magazine Kansas City's best new restaurants of 2021
Words by Jenny Vergara
Photography by Anna Petrow
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 to open her own brick-and-mortar location by her entrepreneurial husband and business partner, Brian Goldman, along with her loyal and growing customer base. In early 2021, Taco Naco KC Market & Taqueria opened its doors just one block from her first farmers’ market booth, selling fresh produce, local sundries and imported Mexican hot sauces, juices, sodas, candies and other durable goods. The brightly colored and aromatic space, which combines bar, restaurant and shop, provides Reyes with a larger prep kitchen to support her catering business while bringing in a reliable and eager stream of taco-lovers from across Kansas City.
Taco Naco KC Market & Taqueria, 8220 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, Kansas, 913.730.8565, taconacokc.com