

They are advertising for employees and the website says it’s coming this fall. to 10 p.m.Ĭoming soon: Viva Los Tacos, on the first floor of the O’s old location at 3901 Forbes Ave., looks like it’s getting ready to open. There also are bowls, burritos, and quesadillas. Its menu features street tacos with barbecue beef brisket, pork, chorizo or steak on corn tortillas. Patron Pronto opened on Craig Street this summer, serving “fresh, authentic Mexican food,” according to its website. The restaurant is still in a soft opening. And, of course, there are tacos - beef, veggie, chicken, mushroom, chorizo, cauliflower and sweet potato. Favorites include Bigly Gordita Crunch, Beef Burrito Smothered Beef Burrito and Chicken Enchiladas Verde.

Mondays through Saturdays and closes at 9 or 10 p.m.īaby Loves Tacos, which has a location in Bloomfield, opened a new site on Meyran Avenue late last month called Baby Loves Tacos Thunderdome. Specialties include arepas (made with ground maize dough), Cazuela de Mariscos (seafood casserole), Sancocho La Casa (Colombian beef soup), Empanadas and Trucha Frita (fried trout). The restaurant says it offers an authentic dining experience based on the real flavors of Colombian food. The spot most recently housed a frozen yogurt shop. The Colombian Spot, which grew from a stall in the Pittsburgh Public Market in the Strip District to a sit-down restaurant on the South Side, has opened an express location at the corner of Forbes and Meyran avenues. Looking for some new lunch or dinner spots in Oakland? There’s plenty to choose from and several would be great places to celebrate National Hispanic American Heritage Month, which runs through Oct.
