{"id":65853,"date":"2025-07-14T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65853\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:15:09","slug":"family-taqueria-nabs-thunderbird-station-space-in-deep-ellum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65853\/","title":{"rendered":"Family taqueria nabs Thunderbird Station space in Deep Ellum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dallas family-owned taqueria chain has opened a location at a historic Deep Ellum address: Taquer\u00eda El Arquito<\/a>, known for its trompo tacos and customer-friendly hours, has opened an outlet at 3400 Commerce St., in the space previously occupied by Thunderbird Station, which closed<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

Taqueria El Arquito opened in late June. It’s a family venture from siblings Anal\u00ed, Nancy, Martha, and Victor Hugo Reza, working with chefs Juan Diego Gutierrez and Jos\u00e9 Angel Avila, to recreate family recipes \u2014 particularly for their tacos de trompo, with a goal to spotlight their Mexican heritage by serving a strictly authentic rendition.<\/p>\n

They keep long hours, opening early at 6 am Monday-Saturday and 7 am on Sunday, spotlighting the key meal: breakfast, with classics like a breakfast taco with eggs and mozzarella cheese on a flour tortila, with choice of bacon, beans, house-made chorizo, ham, potatoes, or sausage, for $2.89. They also do a breakast sandwich and breakfast burrito, plus generous $10.39 plates such as migas, huevos rancheros, and chilaquiles.<\/p>\n

They’re open for lunch and dinner with their bestselling trompo tacos, plus hefty torta sandwiches, in four “global” varieties that include Milanesa (beef with mozzarella cheese), Cubana (beef, trompo meat, salchicha, ham, American cheese, and mozzarella cheese), and Hawaiian, a clever twist on pastor with trompo meat, ham, and pineapple. Torta prices range from $12 to $14.<\/p>\n

They also have tamales and menudo on weekends, plus horchata, aguas frescas, and churros and elote for dessert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love to prepare the food with love \u2014 we call it magic flavors,” Anal\u00ed says. “We\u2019re known for our tacos but we also have burritos, tortas, burgers, chilaquiles, breakfast, and refreshing agua fresca. Don\u2019t even think about skipping the horchata here.”<\/p>\n

They founded the concept \u2014 named for the many arcs in their hometown Taxco, Mexico \u2014 during the pandemic, opening their first location in a convenience store at 1909 S. Cesar Chavez Blvd. in 2020. They’ve expanded quickly, opening eight other locations<\/a>, primarily in gas stations across DFW from Royse City to Dallas to Haltom City to Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

They put themselves on the map after opening<\/a> a location at The Corner in Preston Center in 2024 \u2014 one of the few not located in a gas station.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"El\u00a0Former Gulf station at 3400 Commerce St.\u00a0Courtesy photo\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Deep Ellum location is special for a couple of reasons. Like Preston Center, it is not a gas station offshoot but is on its own, and it will be the first in the chain to serve alcohol. They’ve applied for a license which is pending.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have some alcohol two frozen margaritas with a wine base, plus Michelada, Pulque, and three to four beers,” Anali says.<\/p>\n

But there’s also the synchronicity of the building itself. While it is not a restaurant-in-a-gas-station like most of their other locations, the building itself is a former gas station, and one with a venerable history: the former Gulf station at the corner of Canton Street that was built in 1957, and operated for decades as Riegel’s Gulf Service. In a neighborhood being mowed down by developers, it’s an exemplary example of preserving the heritage via re-use. The space boasts indoor seating and comes with an expansive outdoor patio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas family-owned taqueria chain has opened a location at a historic Deep Ellum address: Taquer\u00eda El Arquito,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,10084,13963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-65853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-openings","11":"tag-tacos","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853663437883745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}