Taco Bamba To Return With New City Ridge Location This Fall

WASHINGTON, DC — Taco Bamba will be returning to the District this fall in a big way in the new City Ridge development at 3900 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., according to a release.

At 3,100 square feet, plus 1,500 square feet of patio, the new City Ridge location will the largest Taco Bamba ever opened by Chef Victor Albisu.

The new D.C. taqueria is also the fourth Albisu is opening this year, which is all part of an expansion that includes the hiring of award-winning Pittsburgh-based chef, Justin Severino, and long-time D.C.-based chef, Harper McClure, who was most recently the executive chef of Mintwood Place.

“Taco Bamba isn’t just a chef-driven restaurant, it’s run by some of the finest and most talented chefs I’ve ever known,” Albisu, in a release. “Attracting chefs like Justin Severino and Harper McClure is a huge win for Taco Bamba. Their creativity and decades of experience running exceptional restaurants only makes our team stronger. Taco Bamba is a place where chefs can apply their individual talents inside and outside the kitchen. The chefs are what makes Taco Bamba so special; they not only create unique menus for all our locations, they run our operations and design our stores. They do whatever it takes to make each guest experience unique and memorable.”

Albisu is a 2015 winner of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington's Chef of the Year award. He was also nominated for a James Beard Foundation award as Best Chef Mid-Atlantic in 2016 and 2020. The chef has also worked in global culinary relief initiatives, including with CARE and as a founding board member of World Central Kitchen.

For more information about Taco Bamba, visit www.tacobamba.com.