The Uptown location Urban Taco, the Dallas-based brand that has occupied a standalone building on McKinney Avenue near Lemmon for nine years, will close its doors following dinner service on Saturday. But don’t write it — or the space — off yet.
Urban Taco will be gone, only so that Velvet Taco — which currently has a flagship space just outside of Uptown along the Knox-Henderson frontage road, will soon transition into the building. Moreover, Urban Taco isn’t going anywhere; it will continue its thriving Mockingbird Station location, pictured, which will actually serve as a model for future branches of the upscale taqueria.
“Uptown is no longer in our business plan, but we know Velvet Taco will do very well there,” said Markus Pineyro, co-founder of del Sur Restaurant Group, which owns the Urban Taco brand.
— Arnold Wayne Jones
