Oscar Diaz’ new Durham restaurant is more than a taqueria

It feels unfair to call TaTaco, the new restaurant from James Beard Award-nominated chef Oscar Diaz, simply a taqueria.

  • While the menu for the restaurant — located 620 Foster St. in downtown Durham — does include a wide variety of tacos using made-in-house tortillas, it goes far beyond that.

Why it matters: Diaz has been on a hot streak since leaving the popular but now closed Mexican restaurant Cortez in Raleigh, partnering with the group behind the Mezcalito restaurants on a number of ventures.

  • Since then, he has opened the Durham restaurant Little Bull, the all-day cafe Aaktun, which has locations in Durham and Clayton and now TaTaco.
  • He also has plans…

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