District Taco founder Osiris Hoil runs a popular, and rapidly expanding, Mexican food chain—and hired the construction company which laid him off to build his stores.
Washington, D.C.-based restaurant chain District Taco is getting a firmer foothold on Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia region, with another lease signed and more planned in the new year.
The D.C.-area taco chain announced Monday it will open a restaurant in the former space ofOriental Eastin The Blairs Shopping Center at 1312 East West Highway. The popular dim sum spot closed suddenly in September.
Osiris Hoil started District Taco as a food truck in Arlington, Virginia, just outside D.C., in 2009. The fast-casual restaurant, which servesYucatan-style fare, is now in Virginia, D.C., Maryland, and Pennsylvania. This will be the first Philly location.
OwnerOsiris Hoilpersonally scouted various options in Maryland last year, but he liked Riverdale Park because of the new Whole Foods and its proximity to the University of Maryland.