Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Restaurant openings Taco Mamacita Coming to Edgehill Village
Posted by Carrington Fox on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:06 AM
Chattanooga-based Taco Mamacita will expand its restaurant-bar concept to Nashville with the scheduled December launch in Edgehill Village, in the location of the now-shuttered Rosario's Mexican Restaurant. The second location of the Tex-Mex restaurant will serve a rotating roster of healthy-minded "funky fusion tacos" for lunch and dinner.
Owners Michael and Taylor Monen have brought on Chad Phillips as owner/operator for the Nashville store, and the team is thoroughly redesigning the space, tearing out walls, eliminating the existing mezzanine and creating an indoor/outdoor bar area that ties in with the round patio. Demolition is slated to start at the end of September.
In addition to tacos, enchiladas and guacamole, Taco Mamacita serves chicken tortilla soup--assembled tableside--and Peruvian chicken made in a rotisserie. Sauces, dressings and drink mixers are made in house, with fresh local produce when available.
The bar will stock 40 tequilas and a selection of Mexican beer.
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Cheap equipment available here:
http://bid.mclemoreauction.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?mclemore2/category/ALL
And to think it was all there in the foist place.
And for some reason "healthy minded" and chicken tortilla soup just does not seem to jibe.
Traditional chicken tortilla soup is actually quite healthy. I haven't seen a great traditional chicken tortilla soup around here before though...
Oh good, another Mexican restaurant. I was worried that after the closing of Rosario's, the comparative ratio of them in Davidson County had dropped below one per person.
Rosario's couldn't get a beer license; they only served high alcohol beer. I wonder what would change for the new people?
I believe somewhere near the end, Rosario's finally got their beer license. While not at all being a restaurant business guru, I would not having beer would hurt a Mexican restaurant's bottom line.
Hopefully, this new place will make it. I love that space and contrary to the comments above, most of the "Mexican" options in that neck of the woods aren't very good. The menu on the website looks to have some different offerings than the standard Las Palmas/La Paz faire.....
I LOVE this place!! The one in Chattanooga is awesome. It is pretty expensive though.
The Taco Mamacita in Chattanooga is a great hangout, and the brand is very upbeat, fun, and original. I think it will do great here in town.
Best of luck, and look forward to frequenting!
Edgehill has a long way to go before being a viable retail/shopping destination. Rosarios was a dump and everyone knew they were going under a year ago. The service was horrible, they got what they asked for. Hopefully Taco Papacita's is well capitalized. Edgehille Village needs a bad makeover in terms of branding and awareness. Mostly students frequent the center and alot of work must be done to entice higher quality tenants such as those found in Hillsboro Village and Green Hills. I see an big arts/tech community absorbing a healthy portion of the space avaible. They just need to get the word out and do ANYTHING.
It's the worst kept secret that La Paz and the landlord have differences. But right now, the landlord is trying to drive up the price of the property, looks like. I'm guessing because of Nordstrom wanting the land for parking. It'll be dueling parking garages there in the corner of Green Hills.
The rules for beer licensing are quite simple.
Read more here - be sure to pack a lunch:
http://www.nashville.gov/beer_board/index.asp
I have a Mexican restaurant beer question.
Why do every one of these place I've been to offer *only* the following:
Tecate
Dos Equis
(insert name of imported crappy Latin American beer here)
Bud
Bud Light
Coors
Coors Light
Where is the Yazoo Dos Perros?
Or any other good craft brew??
If those imported brews represent the pinnacle of the brewing craft, I am quite dissapointed.
Get ready for the General Homeboy - this place is awesome! So glad it's bringing the addition to Nashville!
