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Kansas City Magazine: Best New Restaurants 2021 - Taco Naco KC
For this list of Kansas City’s best new restaurants, we looked at places that have opened since March 2020. We paid our own way and did not announce ourselves…
Feast Magazine: Kansas City's best new restaurants of 2021
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…
FOX4 Great Day KC: From Mexico To Overland Park, Meet The Chef At Taco Naco KC
She’s originally from Mexico, and now she and her husband are serving up Tacos at Taco Naco KC. She’s telling her story of moving from her hometown to Dublin, Ireland before landing in the Midwest. See how she’s developed her family recipes to fit local tastes for the meat-eaters and vegans.
Taco Naco taqueria has blossomed in Overland Park
… Snacking in Mexico is an art form, and there is an endless array of treats. In Kansas City, if you want to find that one little candy that calls back to a shadowy memory, you’ll probably need to hit more than one Mexican mercado. Or you could go to Taco Naco….
Trend Alert: Salsa Made With Peanuts Is The New Hotness
Toward the end of 2020, as we were collectively casting about for something to lighten our weary load, an unlikely hero emerged: salsa made with peanuts. This was new to most. Different. Thrilling, even. (It had been a long year.) And as the salsa macha trend spread across the nation, we wondered when Kansas City might be blessed.
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 …
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 …
