There’s a simple reason why Sean Brock decided to open a taco joint: he wanted to eat good tacos.
“I got really hooked on Mexican food when I came to Nashville to open Husk,” Brock says. “Everyone’s obsessed with this strip of taco joints on Nolensville Road. Sometimes I would go and eat like 10 in a day. When I came back to Charleston there was nowhere to get my fix. So, I decided for selfish reasons to open my own.”
Minero served its first taco on Fri. Oct. 3. In a city relatively free of cronut-like fads and — for a few more months, at least — brisket masters who sell out by mid-afternoon, diners here aren't inclined to queue up to eat. Still, during Minero’s first week of operation, a line snaked out the door and down the sidewalk during the lunch and dinner hours.
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