A new Velvet Taco location for Dallas is in the works.
Coming to the Deep Ellum neighborhood, the restaurant will open at 2556 Elm St. An exact opening date has not yet been announced, but the brand is planning to have it ready by the end of the year.
“We can confirm that Velvet Taco will be opening in the Deep Ellum neighborhood targeting a late 2022 opening,” the brand’s Director of Marketing, Cassie Cooper, said in a statement provided to What Now Dallas. “We are excited to be joining such a lively and vibrant community, and bring our eclectic brand to even more people in the Dallas metro area.”
The Deep Ellum spot joins two other Velvet Taco locations that are currently in the works for North Texas. One is coming to Grandscape in The Colony at 5350 Nebraska Furniture Mart Dr. The other will open in Grapevine at 440 W State Hwy 114. Both locations are expected to open later this year, as well.
Founded in 2011, the very first Velvet Taco opened in Dallas’s Knox-Henderson and the brand has since grown to 30 locations with more in the works. Most of those locations are in Texas, but there are also restaurants in Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
The funky taco concept “is founded on the idea that tacos don’t have to be Mexican.” And its menu certainly reflects that, featuring a range of international taco flavors like spicy tikka chicken, falafel, Korean fried rice and Mexi-Cali shrimp, to name a few.
Sides include chips with red curry coconut queso or queso blanco and elote. There’s also a deliciously moist housemade red velvet cake.
The brand is also known for its popular WTF (weekly taco feature) tacos and “kick ass margaritas.”
There are currently five Velvet Taco locations open in Dallas – 15104 Dallas Pkwy; 11700 Preston Rd; 4622 Greenville Ave; 3411 McKinney Ave; 3012 N Henderson Ave.
