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Trendy Taco Restaurant Scheduled to Open on Austin Street This Summer

Tacombi, which offers traditional Mexican fare, will open a restaurant at 71-22 Austin St. by the the summer (Photo: Google Maps)

May 24, 2021 By Michael Dorgan

The operators of a popular taco chain plan to open a restaurant in Forest Hills in the coming months.

Tacombi, a chain that currently consists of nine restaurants, plans to open an eatery at 71-22 Austin St. by the end of summer, according to a spokesperson for the company.

The restaurant will offer traditional Mexican fare such as tacos, quesadillas and burritos.

The Austin Street location will be the company’s second in Queens. The operators are expected to open their first restaurant in the borough on Wednesday in Court Square, Long Island City.

The company’s other establishments are located in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The restaurant is moving into a 2,500 square foot space that was last occupied by Bolton’s, a women’s clothing store. The space is next door to the apparel store Banana Republic and two doors down from Shake Shack, a fast-food restaurant chain.

Tacombi is known for its trendy locations and Mexican dishes. It also serves cocktails, beers and non-alcoholic fruit drinks known as Aguas Frescas.

The company says that it uses meat and fish that are hormone and antibiotics-free. The other ingredients are organic and GMO-free, according to its website.

The chain is owned by Dario Wolos who is originally from Mexico.

Tacombi began in 2005 when Wolos and others bought a 1963 Volkswagen Kombi bus in Mexico City, went traveling, and then used the vehicle later as a food truck selling tacos and Aguas Frescas.

Wolos then opened his first restaurant in Manhattan in 2010 and has been expanding since.

The Tacombi restaurant in Court Squara (Photo: Michael Dorgan, Queens Post)

Tacombi, as pictured, is opening a restaurant in Court Square, Long Island City Wednesday. The taco chain will open a Forest Hills location by the end of summer (Photo: Michael Dorgan, Queens Post)

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paul

If an A bomb god forbid ever wiped out NYC, only rats, roaches and Taco restaurants, trucks will survive. They seem to be millions of all of them all over the city.

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Sara Ross

Yea! I hope they’re around for a long time and have good guacamole 🙂

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Bertha Coombs

How long before BLM and their supporters protest this restaurant by chanting that they do not want Tacos made by white men like they have done in BK?

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