Roseville Taqueria Nixtaco Gains National Attention

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ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — A Roseville taqueria is getting nationalist recognition.

But if you inquire proprietor Patricio Wise, there’s thing gourmet astir however Nixtaco makes their famed tacos.

“It’s conscionable decently made with bully ingredients and a batch of care,” Wise said.

The latest accolade has travel from SFGate.com, who earlier this week highlighted Nixtaco with the bold header that “Northern California’s champion tacos aren’t successful the Bay Area.”

Again, Nixtaco’s bluish maize tortillas stole the show.

“It was thing similar the maize tortillas I’ve had stateside, leaving a lingering content connected me, adjacent weeks aft my visit,” wrote SFGate.com’s Dianne de Guzman.

Opened successful 2015, the Nuevo Leon-native Wise says helium wanted to replicate the benignant of tortillas usually lone recovered successful Mexico.

“As you spell to the markets there, you spot the ladies grinding the maize by hand,” Wise said.

Nestled successful a nondescript Roseville portion promenade on Cirby Way, connected the other broadside of Interstate 80 from some downtown and the Galleria, Wise says everyone told him that his edifice was going to fail.

“We built this with the volition of making it much similar a vicinity spot – and you tin tell, we’re successful the mediate of nowhere,” Wise said.

But, successful 2019, the small vicinity associated got a glowing write-up successful Food & Wine – who declared that Nixtaco has enactment Roseville connected “the taco map.”

Nixtaco present goes done a pallet of maize a month. They navigator and grind it in-house.

“Everything that comes successful is fresh, truthful we request to process it truly quickly. And, thankfully, we person that turnaround to really marque it happen,” Wise said.

Even successful the mediate of the workweek, Nixtaco was afloat of anxious patrons.

“The archetypal clip I took a wound of 1 of the tacos, I was like, my God … I can’t retrieve eating a taco similar that successful the United States,” said 1 eater.

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Nixtaco is unfastened Tuesdays done Sundays. Its hours being 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and Sundays 11 a.m.-3 p.m.