January 20, 2025
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Tacos Tequila opens

By Lee Provost
The kitchen is in full swing at Tacos Tequila Mexican Grill in Bourbonnais. Owner Oscar Plascenia-Munoz, of Pittsfield, Ill., left, along with brother, Alex, far right, of Bourbonnais, has the location open for business. Standing with the brothers are two members of the kitchen staff.

The kitchen is in full swing at Tacos Tequila Mexican Grill in Bourbonnais. Owner Oscar Plascenia-Munoz, of Pittsfield, Ill., left, along with brother, Alex, far right, of Bourbonnais, has the location open for business. Standing with the brothers are two members of the kitchen staff. (Lee Provost)

The “Coming Soon” banner on the Tacos Tequila local at the Y intersection where Convent Street and South Main Street merge in Bourbonnais has been replaced a “Now Open” sign.

Located at 147 S. Main Street, Tacos Tequila Mexican Grill opened Jan. 10 and it appears the community has welcomed the community.

A new Mexican restaurant is in the location which had formerly been home to Beggar’s Pizza.

The 112-seat, two-level restaurant is the fourth Tacos Tequila location for Oscar Plascencia-Munoz, of Pittsfield, Ill. In addition to Bourbonnais, he operates Tacos Tequila sites in Illinois in Pittsfield, Barry and Winchester.

The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

Pittsfield is located southeast of Quincy, not far from the Illinois-Missouri border.

Site manager, Alex Plascencia-Munoz noted late last week the community has been very welcoming and staff has been busy keeping up with the number of diners.

The site is located across the street from Olivet Nazarene University and is immediately south of the coffee shop, Connect Roasters, 141 S. Main St.

Plascencia-Munoz said the restaurant was born 10 years ago and the goal is to keep expanding. He said based on the initial reaction by area diners, he believes the location will be a success.

The location’s menu offers diners a wide variety of Mexican dishes and traditional Mexican alcoholic drinks as well as soft drinks.

“We are very pleased with how we have been received by the community,” Alex said. “Everything is good, tasty. We are selling a lot of tacos and burritos.”

The business was granted a Class A liquor license on Oct. 7.

Oscar Plascencia-Munoz, the developer of the restaurant, said he anticipates opening within about a month and a half.

Beggars Pizza had the same restaurant-based liquor license before closing its doors in October 2021.

For a Class A license, which costs $1,500 annually, the majority of the business’s sales must be food rather than alcohol; there are now six total Class A license holders in the village.

Beggar’s Pizza closed three years ago. Prior to Beggars, the location had been opened as one of The Original Pancake House. The pancake restaurant opened in late 2005 and closed in 2011.

The property sits at the busy intersection of South Main Street, Main Street NW and Convent Avenue, near the Bourbonnais Dairy Queen and across the street from Olivet Nazarene University.