Birria tacos and ramen, anyone? A favorite Fort Worth truck expands into a restaurant
Calisience, a smash-hit taco truck known for birria tacos and ramen, will open a restaurant in the Race Street shops in Fort Worth, owner Jacqueline Anaya said Tuesday.
Calisience will open this winter at 2707 Race St., a former sports bar. The restaurant will serve the same birria tacos as the truck, 3318 E. Belknap St., but will add a completely new Mexican food menu, Anaya said.
The taco truck will continue its current regular menu and lunch hours Wednesdays through Saturdays, Anaya said.
The new restaurant — the name combines California with Jalisience, meaning from Jalisco — will expand on the dishes that landed the truck in a Texas Monthly column titled, “Birria Ramen Has Come to Fort Worth, and It is Glorious.”
Anaya combines her California upbringing with recipes by her Guadalajara grandmother. She said the new Calisience restaurant will add dishes such as mole poblano, with house-made tortillas.
The restaurant will include a bar and will open for lunch and dinner weekdays and Saturdays, she said.
Calisience is a hit because “I stay true to the actual process” and don’t rush cooking, she said.
“Birria has to have a certain amount of spices, a certain amount of cooking time, a certain amount of prep work — I don’t change the recipe.”
She had worked in restaurants but was doing microblading and other makeup services when she opened the truck last year, she said.
“I wanted to be able to cook from home and sell to friends, and that turned into buying a truck,” she said.
The Calisience truck has drawn patrons from Austin, Houston and Corpus Christi, she said.
“I never knew it’d get this big this quick.”
This story was originally published July 6, 2021 at 3:52 PM.
