After nearly 20 years in Dallas’ West Village, Mi Cocina will close and relocate
By the end of 2021, Mi Cocina will leave the West Village shopping district in Dallas and reopen at a new address in Uptown Dallas.
The restaurant has been in the West Village since 2002 and has been a permanent fixture for nearly 20 years where shoppers can stop and enjoy a plate of brisket enchiladas and a frozen tequila cocktail called Mambo Taxi – which has become an iconic Dallas drink is.
Mi Cocina first opened in Dallas 30 years ago and has grown to 21 restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth.
In particular, Mi Cocina will open a new restaurant in Klyde Warren Park in the fall of 2021. The closure of the West Village restaurant is unrelated to the opening of Klyde Warren Park, says CEO Edgar Guevara.
The nachos tejanos are a popular order at Mi Cocina. The company operates 21 restaurants in D-FW.(JASON JANIK / special article)
He sees the approach for Klyde Warren Park and Uptown Dallas as “two different areas” with two different customer bases. The West Village restaurant will find a new home at an address on McKinney Avenue – a Guevara is not currently named as it currently has another tenant.
“It’s going to be neat: we’ll have both the Klyde Warren room, which opens this fall, and this new room, which opens later in the year,” says Guevara. “There will be two places on McKinney where people can drink mambos.”
For now, all we know is that the new restaurant is near the West Village restaurant – “Blocks away,” says the CEO.
Mi Cocina’s West Village lease expires on December 31, 2021, and Guevara hopes the new Uptown Dallas restaurant will have a “seamless transition” to the new address around the same time.
The new Mi Cocina in Uptown will have a bar with premium tequilas and cocktails, similar to the popular Monkey Bar on the third floor of Mi Cocina in Highland Park Village. The uptown version will “have its own atmosphere,” says Guevara. It will be called Seis Segundos.
Robert Bagwell, one of the original West Village developers, says he’s sad to see Mi Cocina leave.
“We have had a really great 20 year relationship with them,” he says. He has been a partner in the project since 1997.
Bagwell confirms that a Mexican restaurant called Hugo’s Invitados will open in the West Village in early 2022, on the spot where Mi Cocina was.
Mi Cocina will continue to operate in the West Village at 3699 McKinney Ave., Dallas for a few more months. It is expected to close and move in late 2021.
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