Tacos

• Test Driving Fonda - home cooked Mexican food (if your home cook also happens to be a Michelin-starred chef)

  

  On top of having one of the World's 50 Best restaurants with Kol, chef Santiago Lastra has branched out with a new more informal offering in Fonda. We nipped over to Heddon Street to check it out.

• Velvet Taco are bringing fish & chip and shepherd's pie tacos to London

  

  If you've never thought about putting shepherd's pie or fish and chips in a taco, then you just aren't thinking out of the box enough. Because that's what's going to be on offer when US taco chain Velvet Tacos comes to London. They've picked the UK as the first country to open outside of America.

  If, like us, you hadn't heard of the company before, their USP is making tacos with "globally inspired flavours". That

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• The best tacos in London

  

  The Mexican food scene has never been better in London - which means there are some amazing tacos out there. We've rounded up the best places for you.

• A Cantina Malibu vs Breddos Tacos collaboration is coming to The Ned

  

  For the month of September only, there’s a tacos takeover coming to Cantina Malibu in The Ned London. Breddos Tacos will be bringing their Mexican-flavoured joy every Friday.

  If you’ve not sampled the fare of Breddos Tacos, this is an ideal cameo appearance, given the

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• Victory Mansion transforms into TA-KO in Stoke Newington

  

  Victory Mansion in Stoke Newington has been a neighbourhood restaurant and bar in Stoke Newington for a few years now, an Asian/Mexican fusion affair with their "ta-kos" being the biggest draw. Now they've just had a big revamp and with that a name change - they're now TA-KO. 

  They've brought in a new menu which, as you might expect, goes big on their titular Asian-inspired tacos

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• CDMX tacos sees Soho getting a Mexico City-style taqueria

  

  Remember last year when Supernova opened its doors in Soho with a seriously pared-back aesthetic and menu, and was an immediate hit? Well, a new place with similar vibes has just opened in the next street to them and are hoping to be an equally runaway success. CDMX Tacos is the name and it's

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• Don Koko kicks off pizza vs taco evenings with a What Willy Cook vs SG Lewis face-off

  

  Updated 10/5/24 with soft launch info

  Friday nights in Camden are kicking off. Starting this summer Cafe KOKO - the Italian eatery attached to the iconic music venue - is having a series of face-offs between pizza and tacos. The menu, created by the restaurant's Executive Chef Andreas Engberg (La Petite Maison, The Arts Club) sounds great, but we're particularly interested in the limited edition slices and tacos

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• Breddos Tacos are coming to Stoke Newington

  

  We've seen a sudden influx of new taco restaurants of late. Two have been from footballers and another incoming taco joint is from a Hollywood star. So it's actually something of a change to see one of London's OG taco restaurants open a second location - and that's what we have

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• Taco Taco to open in Shoreditch with footballer Hakim Ziyech as co-owner

  

  Updated 8/9/23 with opening date

  If the name Hakim Ziyech makes you sit up, then you are probably a football fan (or at least a Chelsea supporter). We’re here to tell you that he’s launching a taco restaurant in Shoreditch. That’s right, joining an extremely niche list of famous footballer restaurant owners, Hakim (along with three other co-founders, including two

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• Taca Tacos finds a new home on Peckham's Rye Lane

  

  More tacos are coming to Peckham as Taca Tacos gets ready to open its second site in the area. You may have seen them in Peckham's Brick Brewery (as well as Deptford's Market Yard) but this has them getting a place all to themselves (taking over the space from Two Hundred Rye Lane).

  The usual favourites will be on offer, including their beef birria (6-hour braised brisket, with Mexican guajillo, ancho and pasilla chilies), served in a

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• Top Mexico City taqueria Cariñito Tacos is popping up in London at Oranj

  

  Having already nailed down one of NYC's coolest roving restaurants as a pop up, Shoreditch wine bar Oranj is keeping the momentum going with their next residency. They've persuaded one of Mexico City's best taquerias to make the journey to London for a month.

  Cariñito's been wowing foodies in Mexico for the past few years with their short but great menus and handmade tortillas. The 'hipster taqueria' uses

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• Club Mexicana goes big with vegan tacos and frozen pina coladas in Spitalfields

  

  If the thought of California-style street food gets your motor running, or if you were already making pilgrimages to Club Mexicana at their Kingly Court or Seven Dials locations, then news of an upcoming Spitalfields location will make the job of hunting down vegan tacos even easier.

  Located in the former HotBox site, Club Mexicana Spitalfields promises an even bigger menu and some serious bar

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• Taca Tacos find a permanent home in the Deptford arches

  

  The latest street food regular to find a permanent place for themselves is Taca Tacos in Deptford. 

  They've been serving up tacos every week at Brockley Market for three years, along with doing pop-ups and residencies, and now they've found a permanent place in the Deptford arches. They were set up by Thorne Addyman, who was inspired to create Cali-style tacos after trips to

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• Someday margarita, taco and pizza bar hits Finsbury Park

  

  Finsbury Park residents who've been watching the opening of all the new food and drink businesses at the station over the past few months may have been a little disappointed by how slightly 'chain-y' it is. But something new and independent has flung open its doors and that place is Someday. 

  Run by the same team who own Moth Bar in Hackney, the self-styled margarita and spritz bar genuinely sounds like

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• Breddos Clerkenwell Tacos in Clerkenwell