Taco News

Hipster taqueria chain totes hot Cheetos and late hours to Fort Worth

They serve tacos at the time of day we most dearly need them.

Photo courtesy of OMG

After much anticipation, hipster taqueria OMG Tacos has opened a restaurant in Fort Worth. It's located in a very cool building at 3011 Bledsoe St. next to other groovy spots that include Ampersand, Zenna, Coyote Ugly, and Varsity Tavern.

OMG Tacos is a Southern California style-taqueria featuring traditional street tacos, Asian-inspired street tacos, California-style burritos, carne asada fries, loaded nachos, quesadillas, and tortas.

It debuted in Richardson in 2015, then opened a location in The Colony in 2017. They also have a stand at the Gables Rosa building in Uptown Dallas.

Calvin Nguyen, Holly Nguyen, and Anthony Luong founded OMG Tacos on the idea of creating a new way for customers to enjoy and experience street tacos. One thing that's unique is the degree of customization available.

You can choose from flour or corn tortillas, and nine meats that include steak, pork, chicken, barbacoa, lengua, and a veggie mix of onions, scallions, and guacamole.

Toppings range from queso and guacamole to crumbled hot Cheetos.

There are loaded fries, nachos, and sides such as elotes, which you can customize at an elotes bar or order topped with the hot Cheetos. Hot Cheetos on everything.

"OMG's vision is to bring street tacos to a place where people can sit down together and share a meal — a cuisine that was previously only available at street carts, food trucks, gas stations or small shops with limited seating," Holly Nguyen says.

Another key element is OMG's mission to service the late-night suburban munchies market that had been previously unserved. It's a noble cause.

To that end, the Fort Worth location will be open 11 am-3 am daily, and will serve the same menu as its other locations.

One exciting new feature that's unique to the Fort Worth location is liquor; their license is pending, Nguyen says.

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Coffee News

Low Doubt Bar on Fort Worth's Near Southside adds unexpected side bit

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Cocktail with coffee at Low Doubt Bar

A bar in Fort Worth's Near Southside is brewing up an unusual cup of joe: Low Doubt Bar, the casual hangout at 120 St. Louis Ave. #108 that's a spinoff of live music venue Tulips, has added a specialty coffee bar, where it's serving coffee and caffeinated drinks.

Founder Jason Suder says the program is designed for customers like the service worker heading to their next shift, the nurse needing to stay alert, or the entrepreneur looking for a wifi and a caffeine fix.

"Coffee has always been part of our DNA," Suder says. "Whether it’s our first cup of the day as we wash off last night’s show or our tenth as the band finishes loading out, we live off coffee."

Suder opened Tulips FTW in November 2020 as a great bar and live music venue; then opened Low Doubt in early 2024 as an artsy space to grab a drink and unwind — creating a varied entertainment zone to which the coffee bar adds another facet.

Low Doubt has a charming, retro, laid-back vibe — if it were a vehicle, it would be one of those vans from the '70s with the orange and yellow stripes — and has a winking sense of humor, best exemplified by its daily opening time: 4:20 pm.

"So much of what we’re trying to do is show Fort Worth that we have options," Suder continues. "You don’t have to skip a concert because you’re taking a break from beer, miss happy hour because you’re on the wagon, or miss out on memories with friends because you don’t want to drink."

"By adding coffee and caffeinated drinks, we’re creating a space for people who want to be stimulated by the community without feeling removed from drinking culture," he says.

They're sourcing their coffee from acclaimed Counter Culture Coffee, a North Carolina-based roaster known for its commitment to quality and sustainability.

They're making use of an espresso machine they used when Tulips was operating as a daytime coffee shop during the pandemic, now revamped and applied more seamlessly to the bar. Coffee drinks are served as a happy hour or pre-shift pick me up, a jump start to someone’s night out, or a late night burst to sober up or keep their night going.

The menu includes espresso, Americano, cortado, machiato, con pana, and drip. Milk options include regular and non-dairy hemp. They also have a quartet of clever boozy coffee drinks that include: espresso with Liquor 43; Irish coffee; breakfast coffee with mezcal and Topo Chico; and an espresso martini.

"Low Doubt was built on black coffee and whiskey," Suder says. "Other coffee shops close at 8 pm, or 3 pm in the summer. We grew up on the Friends lie that we could meet up at the coffee shop after a bad date or strange movie. Now, we don’t have to choose between daytime coffee or nighttime booze—why not have both?"

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