We are not going to tell you our margaritas are the best on Whyte Avenue. We are going to tell you we squeeze every lime by hand, we use 100 percent agave tequila in the house pour, and the only thing from a bottle is the tequila. The classic is lime, agave and Tromba blanco, shaken hard and served on…
We did not design the room for Instagram, but we are not going to pretend it hurts. Here are the five spots our guests photograph most. One: the neon TACO REPUBLIC sign over the bar on Whyte. Two: the birria consommé pour at the table. Three: the pink and green tile behind the downtown counter. Four: the patio in July,…
Small changes, big difference. Here are six things we do in the kitchen that work just as well at home. Warm the tortilla on a dry pan until it blisters. Double up corn tortillas for anything saucy. Salt the onion and cilantro, not just the meat. Add acid at the end, always lime, never bottled. Keep the salsa on the…
Patio season in Edmonton is short, so here is the list to work through before the heaters come out. Birria tacos with consommé. Baja fish tacos with cabbage slaw. Street corn rolled in cotija and chili. The saskatoon margarita. Chicken tinga tostadas. The carnitas burrito, eaten on the patio with a view of the Avenue. Republic nachos for the table.…
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…