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Our Story
What we stand for
Our values
Five years in, a few rules have stuck. They are on the wall in both kitchens and they decide most of the hard calls.
- Press the tortillas every morning. If the corn is not fresh, nothing on top of it matters.
- Buy from Alberta first. Local beef, prairie pork and market produce whenever the season allows, imported only when it has to be (the corn, the chiles, the good tequila).
- Treat the room like a block party. Everyone gets greeted, everyone gets lime, nobody waits more than ten minutes for a taco.
- Feed the neighbourhood. Community league sponsorships, Fringe volunteer meals and a standing discount for Whyte Avenue service workers.
The downtown location is a ten-minute walk from Rogers Place, which means every Oilers home game turns the room into a pre-game party. Doors open at 11 am, the game day menu starts at 4 pm. Game day only: chipotle-honey wings, grilled shrimp tacos with mango salsa, a two-for-one on Pacifico and Modelo until puck drop, and the Republic Combo…
Taco Republic exists because a few of us thought Edmonton deserved street tacos that tasted like Mexico City, made with what grows here. Five years, one food truck and two rooms later, that is still the entire mission. We hire from the neighbourhood, we buy from local farms, we sponsor a community league soccer team on the south side and…
From May to October most of the vegetables on the menu come from within two hours of the restaurant. We shop the Old Strathcona Farmers Market on Saturday mornings and work directly with three farms in Leduc County and Sturgeon County for peppers, tomatoes, onions and squash. The corn for our tortillas is a different story. Nixtamal-grade corn does not…