10 Jun Delray’s popular El Camino Mexican tacos, street foods restaurant expands to West Palm
Delray Beach’s funky and perennially popular El Camino Mexican tacos and street-food restaurant and bar will open a location at Rosemary Square in downtown West Palm Beach later this year, its owners announced via news release this week.
The restaurant will take over the second-floor space most recently occupied by Brother Jimmy’s barbecue restaurant, which has been closed for nearly a year.
El Camino’s parent company Modern Restaurant Group, which also owns and operates Delray’s Cut 432 and Park Tavern restaurants, aims for a winter 2021 debut at the renovated entertainment plaza.
That means downtown West Palm Beach may witness a battle of the buzzy taquerías in 2021. Owners of the South Beach hot spot Bodega Taquería y Tequila announced in April they would open a Clematis Street location late this year.
The expansion of the Mexican soul food restaurant
El Camino has brought taco and tequila-loving crowds to Delray’s Pineapple Grove district since December 2013. The restaurant also has a location on East Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.
The restaurant, which describes its menu as “Mexican soul food,” serves an array of tacos, burritos, enchiladas, fajitas and quesadillas presented with a refined touch. Which means the quesadillas are stuffed with inspired ingredients like squash blossom with Oaxaca cheese and house-made chorizo, and the tacos boast fillings like ancho chile-glazed pork belly with pineapple slaw and spiced peanut crunch.
Appetizers and shareable plates venture beyond the expected street corn, queso and guacamole mainstays to include octopus a la plancha with charred cauliflower, pipian salsa and shaved radish, a ceviche of local red snapper with jalapeño, onion, cumin and toasted pepitas, and a chile relleno that’s filled with Kurobuta pork shoulder picadillo, queso blanco, Marcona almonds and salsa roja.
El Camino holds up its “mezcal & tequila bar” tag with an extensive range of blancos, reposados and añejos. It also offers cocktails, craft beers and wine.
Its future, second-floor home in downtown West Palm will occupy a 6,500-square-foot space that will feature an indoor/outdoor bar, indoor seating for 165 diners and an open-air dining area seating 75. The space overlooks the AMC Rosemary Square 12 movie theaters.
Before previous tenant Brother Jimmy’s debuted in April 2016, the space was home to Decks Fish Market (for barely 10 months) and, before that, Taverna Opa.
Source: PalmBeachPost.com
By: Liz Balmaseda