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Lucha Libre rice bowl and Food Truck Tacos at Zocalo<\/p>\nThe European restaurant chain has removed Birmingham from its list of sitesLucha Libre rice bowl and Food Truck Tacos at Zocalo<\/p>\n
A ‘delicious’ Birmingham restaurant which served food with ‘an explosion of flavour’ has closed after just one year of being open.<\/p>\n
Offering Mexican favourites of tacos and rice bowls, Z\u00f3calo was located on New Street, next to Tim Hortons.<\/p>\n
The European restaurant chain has removed Birmingham<\/a> from its list of sites and deleted New Street from the website.<\/p>\n When we went down to visit today (July 22) it was already being turned into a new eatery, set to open soon.<\/p>\n Read More: <\/strong>US professional eater with 2.3m followers coming to West Midlands for ‘insane’ food challenge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n When we visited <\/a>Z\u00f3calo in October, our reporter Zoe loved her ‘delicious’ <\/a>visit and called her beef rice bowl as ‘an explosion of flavour’.<\/p>\n Zoe said: “This was so beautifully presented – a rainbow of colours in a bowl brimming with delicious healthy ingredients.<\/p>\n “I was half expecting it to be sectioned into beef, salsa, rice but it was all perfectly blended with just the avocado fanned along the side – a whole avo at that.<\/p>\n “This meant that every mouthful was an explosion of flavour, especially the marinated strips of beef, which were sensational.”<\/p>\n On Google Reviews, Z\u00f3calo had a near-perfect 4.9 score out of five stars, based on over 300 reviews.<\/p>\n A customer identified as Stevo said: “I decided to eat here with my work mates. The staff were very friendly.<\/p>\n “The food is amazing, portions and the quality, amazing. I highly recommend eating here.”<\/p>\n Diana added: “Amazing healthy food, service is really good.<\/p>\n “Very accommodating for vegan options, so you can have pretty much everything.”<\/p>\n And a different reviewer posted: “Best Mexican in town.”<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has approached Z\u00f3calo for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European restaurant chain has removed Birmingham from its list of sitesLucha Libre rice bowl and Food Truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,10314,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-birmingham-restaurants","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114897192470037450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Z\u00f3calo](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_ZCR_BEM_251024zocalo_09jpeg.jpg\")
Z\u00f3calo was located on New Street <\/p>\n