Trendy Taco Eatery To Open On Austin Street Early Next Month

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — A popular local taco chain is expanding further into Queens with plans to open an outpost in Forest Hills next month.

Tacombi, a mini-chain with 10 self-described "taco-slinging" locations across the city, opened its first Queens outpost in Long Island City at the end of May — at which point operators also announced their plan to open a location in Forest Hills, the Queens Post reported.

That eatery, which will be located at 71-22 Austin Street, was slated to open at the end of the summer, but a spokesperson told Patch that its opening date will actually be "early next month."

Before opening its first New York City spot in Nolita over a decade ago, Tacombi started its operation out of a Volkswagen trailer in Mexico back in 2005, according to the website.

Since then, the taco joint has opened locations across Manhattan and Brooklyn — from the Upper West Side to Fort Greene.

Although the Long Island City location was Tacombi's first spot in Queens, it's not the first appearance the restaurant made in the borough.

At the beginning of the pandemic Tacombi started an initiative called Tacombi Community Kitchen, aimed at feeding New Yorkers who were going hungry — specifically in neighborhoods where many of their employees live, Queens included, reported CBS New York.

The community kitchen has now donated over 180,000 meals to date, according to the website, and Tacombi's most recent contribution to the initiative was on May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, when the restaurant donated 100 percent of all proceeds made that day to the kitchen.