Nacho Borracho is a

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restaurant in

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Description

The

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restaurant Nacho Borracho (English: "drunk nacho") is located on Broadway on

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has described the establishment as a "late-night

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". The drink menu has included frozen cocktails such as avocado

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and pink guava Moscow mules. The restaurant has housed other businesses. Neon Taco, operated by chef Monica Dimas until 2019, was described as Nacho Borracho's "resident taco shop". In 2016, ''Eater Seattle'' said: In 2021, the website said Nacho Borracho was "home to the stellar taco window El Xolo, as well as bagels from Loxsmith during breakfast and brunch hours Thursday through Sundays". El Solo serves "slow-roasted pork in tortillas

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from scratch and airy light queso-topped chips", according to Gabe Guarente of ''Eater Seattle''.

History

The restaurant opened in February 2014. In 2015, Dimas announced plans to open a

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concept, operating from Nacho Borracho's

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window. Neon Taco closed in March 2019. Chef Ricardo Valdes opened El Xolo as a replacement almost immediately. In 2018, security called police seeking to remove political activist Joey Gibson, who refused to leave. According to Megan Hill of ''Eater Seattle'', "

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supporters then flooded Neon Taco's

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page with negative reviews", many of which were subsequently removed.

Reception

Julia Wayne included Nacho Borracho in ''Seattle Magazine'''s 2014 overview of the city's best Mexican restaurants. Lara Douglass included the restaurant in ''Eater Seattle'' 2016 overview of "where to get your Tex-Mex fix in Seattle". The website's Gabe Guarente included Nacho Borracho in a 2019 list of 8 "super cool Seattle spots to drink margaritas". Megan Hill and Guarente included the restaurant in ''Eater Seattle'' 2021 list of "where to find terrific boozy frozen drinks in Seattle".

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