Con Madre Kitchen Expanding to Dallas

This Austin-based restaurant will offer street tacos, margaritas, and more!
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What started as a food truck serving street tacos in Austin is now headed to Dallas. Con Madre Kitchen is expected to open at 2525 Wycliff Ave. in Dallas sometime in January or February of 2023.

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Alfredo Bustinza, CEO and Founder of Con Madre Kitchen, told What Now Dallas that his mother, Maria Garcia, moved from South Texas to Austin in 2003 and later opened a food truck to offer guests dishes that spanned three generations. “We wanted to bring the tradition from South Texas all the way to Dallas,” Bustinza said. “Once you taste it, you’re going to fall in love.”

Everything at Con Madre Kitchen is made fresh, including the tortillas. “We want to bring back the tradition of the street taco,” Bustinza said. The menu features tacos with a variety of fillings from caramelized shrimp and chicken to picadillo and pastor. Bustinza plans to create a revised menu for the Dallas location, which will feature indoor dining and a full bar with margaritas and beers from Mexico. The Austin menu features nachos, quesadillas, burritos, chalupas, and more.

Bustinza is currently in negotiations for a second Dallas location, this time in Highland Park. If all goes according to plan, it could open sometime next summer.

Con Madre Kitchen currently has two Austin restaurants in operation, and Bustinza is excited about the expansion into Dallas. “My mom made it grow.” Bustinza co-founded and invested in the Austin restaurants, but he was serving in the military at the time the first storefront opened in 2015.

“My mom, she’s an immigrant, made it possible for us to have this company, so I’m very grateful for that. It’s a family business. This is something that I want people to understand that it’s my mom’s love—my mom’s love for cooking, my mom’s love for the recipes. That’s why we named it Con Madre Kitchen.”

Bustinza hopes to help build community through the restaurant in Dallas. “I want people to taste my tacos and from that, they can just build up the community.” He also plans to volunteer within the community. “We want to make sure that we’re involved with what they’re doing. That’s one of the things that I’m really looking for here in Dallas.”

Amber D. Browne

Amber D. Browne

Amber D. Browne is an author, freelance writer, and editor based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. She has more than two decades of experience in journalism including in television, radio, magazines, and online publications.
Amber D. Browne

Amber D. Browne

Amber D. Browne is an author, freelance writer, and editor based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. She has more than two decades of experience in journalism including in television, radio, magazines, and online publications.

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