A Californian-style taco outfit based in southeast London opens its first permanent venue today, after four years of pop-ups, residencies and market stalls. Taca Tacos, from founder Thorne Addyman, is in Arch 12 at Deptford Market Yard.

Thorne launched the venture in 2018 following a research trip to the US West Coast and Mexico, initially as a month-long evening pop-up in a Deptford café. Further residencies and market stalls followed, with the business switching to home delivery kits during the pandemic lockdowns.

Now joined by Tung Van Fan as head chef, Taca Tacos has a short menu of tortillas and nachos with pork, chicken, mushrooms, black beans and fish, including a headline beef birria – Mexican beef braised for six hours with chiles and spices.