Satbir Singh with The St. Catharines Standard reported on a new St. Catharines restaurant with an NC-connection.
Business – Sales and Marketing program alumnus Rufino Fuentes (Winter Term, 2019) and his family opened Taco Embassy in December 2019, a restaurant featuring Mexican favourites like tacos, burritos and quesadillas, as well as new dishes brought over from the Fuentes’s restaurant back home. These include the award-winning Pozole Soup El Cerrito, an award-winning pork stew.
Fuentes left his family in Mexico at the age of 16, attending the Royal Elite International Academy in Niagara-on-the-Lake followed by Niagara College. He says, “I came with that dream of study hard and do my best so in the future I can bring my family to Canada.” In September 2019, Fuentes’s father, mother, and two brothers landed in Canada and together they opened Taco Embassy.
Fuentes says, “This is a family business; we are putting our heart into it and we want people to feel part of the family,” said Rufino, adding he’s speaking for his entire family. “We want this five-member family to become a huge family.”
