Taco N Maíz joined Austin’s dining scene with a brick-and-mortar location on Sixth Street and Sabine Street in downtown.

On the menu

Downtown Austin’s newest taco eatery serves tacos with bistec, pastor, chicken, chorizo, buche, tripa, lengua, nopal and mushrooms.

Customers can also find quesadillas with various fillings, volcanes, burritos, loaded potatoes, tortas, nachos, alambres and tacotes.
The restaurant's menu boasts tacos, quesadillas, burritos, nachos, backed potatoes and more. (Dacia Garcia/Community Impact)
The restaurant's menu boasts tacos, quesadillas, burritos, nachos and more. (Dacia Garcia/Community Impact)
The space is family owned by Andy Mendez and Paola Abarca, and its current hours are Thu.-Sun., 6 p.m.-2 a.m., with the exception of Fridays and Saturdays when the business remains open until 3 a.m.

The specifics


A joint ribbon cutting event by the Austin Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Austin Alliance was hosted Dec. 16 to celebrate the restaurant’s launch.
The business is family owned by Andy Mendez and Paola Abarca. (Dacia Garcia/Community Impact)
The business is family owned by Andy Mendez and Paola Abarca. (Dacia Garcia/Community Impact)
Davon Barbour, Downtown Austin Alliance president and CEO, shared details about the organization’s mission to improve downtown Austin and welcomed Taco N Maíz to the neighborhood.

“We're really trying to make this a spectacular quarter block,” Barbour said. “You've got the businesses, you've got the properties, the artists, but it's also the businesses that empower the experience for our visitors, for our workers and for our guests.”

Austin Chamber customer success manager Karen Cole also expressed words of welcome to the owners of the business.