We press hundreds of tortillas a day and we waste almost none of them. Here is what the kitchen does with the leftovers. Chilaquiles for staff breakfast. Totopos fried for nachos. Tortilla soup, where the stale ones are actually better. Migas with scrambled eggs. Enfrijoladas dipped in black bean purée. Tostadas baked flat and crisp. Tortilla strips as a salad…
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…