TACO NACO KC in the News
From early market mornings to new neighborhood taquerías, these stories follow TACO NACO KC through the years. Explore interviews with Chef Fernanda Reyes, restaurant openings, food reviews and community moments.
Each feature reflects its original publication date. Visit our Menu and Locations pages for current information.
From our early days
Market roots: Taco the Town review · The Pitch’s taco review · Peanut salsa macha · Johnson County Museum
Our first taquería: Market & Taqueria opening · Kansas City Star opening feature · Shawnee Mission Post · Feast Magazine · Visit Overland Park
Behind the food: Chef Fernanda’s comida casera · From farmers market to restaurant · Mexican tamales · Taco en Boca chef collaboration dinners
IRC KC: Global Experience - Mexican Cooking Class
As part of the IRC's Global Experience Series, we will be welcoming Chef Fernanda Reyes of Taco Naco KC to present a Mexican cooking class. Chef Reyes will be preparing a vegan taco that includes cauliflower with pipian in blue corn tortilla. The program will give basic instructions for preparing the dish, as well as provide an opportunity to learn more about …
Visit Overland Park: Taco Naco KC
What started as a taco stand at the Overland Park Farmers' Market is now a full market and taqueria in Downtown OP. Here you will be wowed with flavorful tacos, nachos, queso, salsas, and yes, churros.
Visit Kansas City: Most Instagrammable Spots In OP - Taco Naco's Pink Wall
As the snow piles up outside and temperatures plummet, customers stepping inside the new Taco Naco KC Market & Taqueria get a quick taste of balmy Mexico.
“If you are having a bad day or need to get out, this is a place with bright colors, bright light, good people, and a good atmosphere,” said Brian Goldman, who …
Taco Naco KC Opens in Overland Park
Congratulations to the owners of Chamber member Taco Naco KC, Chef Fernanda Reyes Gonzalez and her husband Brian Goldman, who have opened their first restaurant in the downtown area of Overland Park.
Visit Overland Park: New Restaurants - Taco Naco KC
From a food stand at the OP Farmers’ Market to brick and mortar, this taco shop has found its resting place in Downtown Overland Park. You’ll find tacos made with Yoli tortillas and sides like handcrafted salsas. Love their tacos but don’t want to leave your house? You can find their taco kits online.
Kansas City Star: Their Tacos Sold Well At Overland Park Farmers’ Market. Now They Own A Restaurant
As the snow piles up outside and temperatures plummet, customers stepping inside the new Taco Naco KC Market & Taqueria get a quick taste of balmy Mexico.
“If you are having a bad day or need to get out, this is a place with bright colors, bright light, good people and a good atmosphere,” said Brian Goldman, who …
Taco Naco KC opens as a taqueria, market in Johnson County
As the snow piles up outside and temperatures plummet, customers stepping inside the new Taco Naco KC Market & Taqueria get a quick taste of balmy Mexico. “If you are having a bad day or need to get out, this is a place with bright colors, bright light, good people, and a good atmosphere,”…
Taco Naco KC Opens Storefront In Downtown Overland Park
Taco Naco KC, an Overland Park Farmers’ Market taco stand, now has a more permanent home in the downtown area.
Chef Fernanda Reyes Gonzalez and her husband, Brian Goldman, recently opened the taqueria storefront with the same menu as the seasonal taco stand — including its best-selling guacamole and tomatillo salsa…
Feast Magazine: Taco Naco Will Open In Downtown Overland Park In February
Taco Naco started as a simple class project. About two years ago, Brian Goldman studied project management in the course of graduate work at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and one of his assignments was to “manage” a project from beginning to end according to the principles taught. Unlike his colleagues, Goldman didn’t have …
MARKET & TAQUERIA - Coming Soon
We bit the bullet and started our brick-and-mortar Taco Naco KC Market & Taqueria with a soft opening in February 2021 at 8220 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS 66206, just north of Mr. Gyro's Greek Food & Pastry and …
The Pitch’s Eat This Now - Peanut Macha Salsa from Taco Naco KC
The salsa that is going to come in and upend your condiment and hot sauce rotations is less reliant on summer vegetables and more on the humble, wonderful peanut. This is salsa macha, and this Veracruzan specialty most often features chile de arbol peppers, roasted peanuts, garlic, olive oil, and sesame seeds. Thick and spicy, it typically is viewed …
Taco The Town reviews Taco Naco KC in Tasting Tasty Tacos
Let's put these tacos to the test. The place we're reviewing today is Taco Naco KC, they are set up at the Overland Park Farmer's Market on Saturdays, and they won the best taco at the Kansas City Taco Fest a couple of summers ago. And I just wanted to have them on the show because these are some amazing tacos. So we have them already. We also …
The Pitch’s Dish Of The Week - Anything From Taco Naco KC
All summer long, Chef Fernanda Reyes‘ tacos, queso, ridiculously good salsas, margarita mixes, and more have been available at the Overland Park Farmer’s Market via hers’ and her husband Brian’s catering/food truck operation, Taco Naco KC. Reyes, a trained chef from Northern Mexico, started Taco Naco as …
Johnson County Museum Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
This week we highlight an authentic Mexican taco business! Fernanda and her husband opened Taco Naco KC in Spring of 2019 as a pop-up taqueria and nacho stand at local festivals and catering company for weddings, birthdays, graduations, and company events. During the Pandemic of 2020, TNKC quickly adapted to the …
Shaping Kansas City's Comida Casera
Chef Fernanda Reyes comes to Kansas City to revolutionize the American palette and give Mexicans far from home a fresh remembrance of the classic homemade flavor of Comida Casera. Long before shaping Kansas City's contemporary Mexican cuisine, Chef Fernanda graduated in gastronomic studies from the Instituto …
