Pacifica’s scenic Taco Bell reopening as a boozy Taco Bell Cantina

Pacifica's Taco Bell will reopen Saturday, July 13, 2019 as a Taco Bell Cantina where guests can enjoy a tapas style menu, local artwork and alcoholic beverages. Pacifica's Taco Bell will reopen Saturday, July 13, 2019 as a Taco Bell Cantina where guests can enjoy a tapas style menu, local artwork and alcoholic beverages. Photo: Courtesy Of Taco Bell Photo: Courtesy Of Taco Bell Image 1 of / 13 Caption Close Pacifica’s scenic Taco Bell reopening as a boozy Taco Bell Cantina 1 / 13 Back to Gallery

If you missed your chance to book a stay at Taco Bell Hotel in Palm Springs this summer, here’s the next best thing.

Pacifica’s iconic Taco Bell located off Linda Mar Beach is reopening Saturday as a Taco Bell Cantina, complete with a new menu, local artwork, alcohol-infused beverages and local beer Lagunitas IPA.

The structure was remodeled to include an indoor and outdoor fireplace and mural by San Francisco street artist Nora Bruhn, whose work can be seen at The Blind Butcher and around Hayes Valley. Talk about adding a major side of panache to that Crunch Wrap Supreme.

“Taco Bell remodeled the famous surfer spot to become the brand’s first ever free-standing Cantina restaurant, as well as one of Taco Bell’s first Cantinas to have recycling and compost bins,” a Taco Bell spokesperson said.

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Cantina will offer the first 50 guests beach towels themed in Taco Bell’s hot sauce packet design and the first 150 guests will also get free crunchy tacos.

Coinciding with the reopening is the 20th Annual Kahuna Kupuna Benefit Surf Contest, an amateur surf contest for surfers ages 40 and older, also at Linda Mar Beach.

The original structure along Pacifica State Beach was built in the late 1960s, The Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub wrote, where it once housed an A&W hamburger franchise for at least a decade before it eventually became a Taco Bell in the 1980s.

The reopening event starts at 12 p.m. and ends at 3 p.m.

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