Revolver Taco Lounge has permanently closed the new restaurant it opened in June in Downtown Fort Worth's Sundance Square, owner Regino Rojas told The Dallas Morning News. (subscription required.)
The restaurant closed Aug. 14, The Morning News reported.
“I need to defend the ground that feeds me,” Rojas told The Morning News. “Dallas is home.”
Rojas told the newspaper that business was slow in Sundance Square.
Bill Boecker, president of Sundance Square Management, told the newspaper in a statement that Revolver had “staffing challenges.”
Boecker told the paper he “hope[s] to have a new announcement soon.”
Rojas founded Revolver Taco in 2012 in Fort Worth before leaving the city for Dallas.
Texas Monthly pegged it in December, when it wrote this headline about the Dallas restaurateur Rojas: “Dallas’ Regino ‘Gino’ Rojas stands out in Texas for his wildly creative food and his willingness to take risks (who says you can’t open a new restaurant concept during a pandemic?).”
The "new" restaurant the magazine was referring to was La Resistencia — a prix-fixe $65 taco tasting menu fusing Mexican cooking and Japanese yakitori grilling that Rojas, who grew up in Mexico, began offering to very limited seating inside his Dallas restaurant last year.
Rojas told Fort Worth Inc. in an email interview in February that he was negotiating to take over the former Taco Diner space at Sundance Square. His plans, he said in an email to Fort Worth Inc.: a combo Revolver Taco Lounge and Purepecha, a reservations-only chef tasting menu that he had also opened in the back of his Dallas restaurant, but discontinued — at least temporarily — during the pandemic.
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