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Seoul Taco

Seoul Taco Seoul Taco is an acclaimed Asian fusion restaurant originally launched as a popular Korean-Mexican food truck in St. Louis. It has since expanded to include seven fast-casual locations across St. Louis, Columbia, and Chesterfield in Missouri, as well as in Chicago and Naperville in Illinois. Founded by restaurateur David Choi, Seoul Taco has garnered numerous accolades, including recognition as one of the Top 101 Best Food Trucks in the Nation by Daily Meal, and multiple awards for Best Food Truck from reputable publications like RFT and Sauce Magazine. The menu is a creative blend of classic Korean BBQ and Mexican street fare, featuring affordable and fresh ingredients that resonate with urban Millennials who appreciate grab-and-go dining. Each location is distinctively designed with contributions from local artists, fostering a community-oriented atmosphere where patrons can enjoy quality food and connect with others.

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05/27/2026

Final week of the AAPI Chef Series 🍕🔥

This week, Chef brings the flavors of his Spicy Pork Belly Soondubu to Prince St. Pizza Chicago 🌶️🇰🇷

🍕 Spicy vodka sauce
🧀 Cheese
🥬 Kimchi
🥓 Savory spicy pork belly
🥢 Silken tofu
🧅 Scallions
✨ Sesame + gochugaru

Available for ONE WEEK ONLY • 5/25–5/31

And for every slice sold this week, a portion supports ❤️

📍 Chicago location only
939 W Randolph

🎥:

05/26/2026

Jack’s Crispy Beef Taco 🌮
Crunchy shell. Seasoned beef & beans. American cheese. Lettuce. Tapatío.

Simple, nostalgic, and built like the kind of taco you keep coming back for.

Named after Jack, our very first employee who’s still with us today ❤️

$1.50 all day, every day as part of our 15-yr celebration 🎉

📍Available at ALL locations.

Not every favorite has to be the loudest thing on the menu. 🤫Our Gogi Bowl has been one of those low key staples for a l...
05/21/2026

Not every favorite has to be the loudest thing on the menu. 🤫

Our Gogi Bowl has been one of those low key staples for a long time now 🤝

🍚 White rice
🥩 Choice of protein
🥗 Korean salad mix
🥕 Carrots
🧅 Green onions
🥢 Sesame oil
🔥 Gochujang sauce
🍳 Topped with a sunny side up egg

For the day ones… you already know.

📍Available at ALL locations

05/20/2026

🍵 Have you tried our Iced Matcha?

We blend our house made horchata, crafted with rice, cinnamon, and a touch of vanilla, with premium matcha for a creamy, lightly sweet drink with an earthy green tea finish.

🧊 Served ice cold for a unique twist on a classic favorite.

🚨 Available now at Chicago locations only:
📍 738 N. Clark St
📍 1034 W Belmont Ave

Tag a Matcha Lover 🫶

05/15/2026

Say cheese 🧀

🌽 The Cheesy Corn Elote Bites don’t miss 🎯

✅Served w/ our signature Seoul sauce topped with cotija/tajin mix & green onion.

Crazy looking back at how far Seoul Taco has come over the years 🌮15 years in and there’s still a lot to be grateful for...
05/13/2026

Crazy looking back at how far Seoul Taco has come over the years 🌮

15 years in and there’s still a lot to be grateful for.

To everyone who’s supported Seoul Taco along the way, worked behind the scenes, showed up to the truck, the shops, or brought friends and family through over the years…thank you 🤝

A lot has changed since the early days.
But the excitement for what’s ahead is still very real.

Mind, Belly, & Seoul 🫰

In Dillas We Trust 🤝
05/07/2026

In Dillas We Trust 🤝

🎉 Happy Cinco de Mayo Couldn’t have lined it up any better… it’s Taco Tuesday too 🌮 $1.50 tacos. All day.Pull up for a q...
05/05/2026

🎉 Happy Cinco de Mayo

Couldn’t have lined it up any better… it’s Taco Tuesday too 🌮

$1.50 tacos. All day.
Pull up for a quick bite and celebrate with us 💥

This week’s chef special 🌽🧀Korean Cheesy Corn Elote Quesadilla Melted mozzarella layered with fire-roasted corn, Seoul s...
05/04/2026

This week’s chef special 🌽🧀

Korean Cheesy Corn Elote Quesadilla

Melted mozzarella layered with fire-roasted corn, Seoul sauce, green onions, and tajin… finished with a hit of spiced cotija on a warm flour tortilla.

Simple. Bold. Straight up addictive.

Add your protein and make it yours 🔥
Pull up hungry.

Wagyu. Truffle. Mandu. 🥟🔥Crispy dumplings loaded with chili crisp, white onions, and real flavor.6 for $10 and worth eve...
04/27/2026

Wagyu. Truffle. Mandu. 🥟🔥

Crispy dumplings loaded with chili crisp, white onions, and real flavor.

6 for $10 and worth every bite.

If you haven’t tapped in yet… this is your sign.

Also available for catering.

04/20/2026

Your weekly schedule just got better 🌮🌯

Jack’s Crispy Beef Taco 🌮15 years in… and we’re just getting started.To celebrate, we brought out something simple, cris...
04/15/2026

Jack’s Crispy Beef Taco 🌮

15 years in… and we’re just getting started.

To celebrate, we brought out something simple, crispy, and straight to the point.

A nod to the early days, named after our very first employee who is still with us today.

$1.50 💥
All day. Every day.

📍 Available at all locations

15 years of Seoul Taco, and this one is for the people who have been rocking with us since the jump.

💥New drink alert!Iced Matcha Horchata 🍵A smooth fusion of tradition and refreshment.We blend our house made horchata, cr...
04/13/2026

💥New drink alert!

Iced Matcha Horchata 🍵

A smooth fusion of tradition and refreshment.

We blend our house made horchata, crafted with rice, cinnamon, and a touch of vanilla, with premium matcha for a creamy, lightly sweet drink with an earthy green tea finish.

Rich. Refreshing. Perfectly balanced.
Served ice cold for a unique twist on a classic favorite.

🚨 Available now at Chicago locations only:
📍 738 N. Clark St
📍 1034 W Belmont Ave

Tag a Matcha Lover 🫶

04/10/2026

Friday looks better with three tacos 🌮🌮🌮
Who’s pulling up?

📸: 🙌

04/07/2026

Seoul Taco Tuesday is here 🔥

15 years in…and we’re celebrating the only way we know how:

🌮 $1.50 tacos
💥 Any taco | Any protein
🗓 Every Tuesday
📍 All locations

You already know what time it is.

Pull up early.

15 Years. Still Feels Like Day One.What started as a simple idea turned into something way bigger than us.
Built by the ...
04/06/2026

15 Years. Still Feels Like Day One.

What started as a simple idea turned into something way bigger than us.

Built by the people who showed up, stayed loyal, and kept coming back…so this one’s for you.

Tomorrow (and every Tuesday), we celebrate the only way we know how:

🌮 All Tacos $1.50
(Any taco, any protein)

📍 All Locations
🗓 Taco Tuesday (Starting 4/7/26)

Pull up early. It’s going to be a good one.

🎉 15 years ago, it started on a grill.No guarantees. Just belief, long nights, and a lot of tacos.To celebrate 15 years,...
03/31/2026

🎉 15 years ago, it started on a grill.

No guarantees. Just belief, long nights, and a lot of tacos.

To celebrate 15 years, we’re bringing it back to the people.

Every Taco Tuesday, all tacos are $1.50 at every location.

🗓️ Starting 4/7/26
🌮 Taco Tuesdays — $1.50 each
📍 All Seoul Taco locations

Appreciate you always 🫰
– David

✅ Share this with your Seoulmates 🔥

🚨24 hours. See you soon.Pink Mu Chicago × Seoul Taco—
specialty kimbaps and the bulgogi quesadilla roll in the mix 🤝📆 Fr...
03/26/2026

🚨24 hours. See you soon.
Pink Mu Chicago × Seoul Taco—
specialty kimbaps and the bulgogi quesadilla roll in the mix 🤝

📆 Friday, June 27
⏰ Official launch 6–10pm
📍738 N. Clark St., Chicago

03/20/2026

We’re excited to welcome .chicago’s residency inside Seoul Taco, bringing their premium kimbap along with a few collab items to the menu 🤝

Join us Friday, March 27 as we kick things off with great food, music, and a few surprises throughout the night 👀

If you can’t make Friday, come through opening weekend. We’ll have specials running all weekend 🎉

See you there 🫶
📍 738 N Clark St, Chicago, IL�📅 3/27/26�🕕 6 to 10 PM

If it ends in “os”… it’s a yes.Nachos + Churros.Savory. Sweet. Perfect combo.🔥 Tag someone you’d split this with 👇
03/04/2026

If it ends in “os”… it’s a yes.

Nachos + Churros.
Savory. Sweet. Perfect combo.

🔥 Tag someone you’d split this with 👇

🔥CITY SC Home Opener ⚽️We’re proud to be serving inside  as  kicks off the new season!CITY. Seoul Taco. St. Louis.Let’s ...
02/21/2026

🔥CITY SC Home Opener ⚽️

We’re proud to be serving inside as kicks off the new season!

CITY. Seoul Taco. St. Louis.

Let’s go. 🔥🌮

Made with corn tortilla chips, queso blanco, green onion, roasted sesame seeds, kimchi, and sour cream. This isn’t a sid...
02/19/2026

Made with corn tortilla chips, queso blanco, green onion, roasted sesame seeds, kimchi, and sour cream.

This isn’t a side dish.
This is a situation.

Pull up 🏃🏃‍♀️

📍Available at ALL locations

just named us to their first ever Top Lunar New Year Restaurants list.And as we step into our 15th year in business, th...
02/13/2026

just named us to their first ever Top Lunar New Year Restaurants list.

And as we step into our 15th year in business, that hits different because this isn’t just about ratings. It’s about you.

The families who order every week.
The regulars who leave reviews.
The late night cravings.
The holiday celebrations.
You all keep showing up for us. And we feel that.

Thank you to our community in the Chi and the Lou for riding with us all these years.

And thank you to for highlighting local restaurants and the cultures behind them.

We’re grateful. Truly.

Fifteen years in… and we’re still just getting warmed up.

Before the growth.
Before the collabs.
Before the expansion.There was this.The Bulgogi Burrito 🌯 Built in the Midwest.
I...
02/11/2026

Before the growth.
Before the collabs.
Before the expansion.

There was this.

The Bulgogi Burrito 🌯

Built in the Midwest.
Inspired by Korean flavor.

OGs…what was your first order?

02/10/2026

Great food gets you in the door. How you’re treated decides if you come back.

We don’t take that lightly.

Address

1321 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL
60637

**Travel Directions to 1321 E. 57th Street, Chicago**

**Public Transport:**
1. **From Downtown Chicago:**
- Take the Red Line train from any downtown station (e.g., State/Lake) towards 95th/Dan Ryan.
- Transfer at the Garfield station to the Green Line.
- Board a train heading towards Ashland and get off at the Cottage Grove station.
- From there, you can walk east on 57th Street for about 10 minutes.

2. **Bus Option:**
- Catch the #55 bus from various locations in downtown Chicago heading towards Kedzie.
- Get off at the stop near 57th Street and walk east for a few blocks.

**Driving/Parking:**
1. **From Downtown Chicago:**
- Head south on Lake Shore Drive (US-41).
- Exit onto E. 57th Street and continue straight until you reach your destination.

2. **Parking:**
- There is street parking available in the area, but be sure to check for any parking restrictions or meters.
- Alternatively, look for nearby parking garages if street parking is full.

Safe travels!

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 10pm
Tuesday 11am - 10pm
Wednesday 11am - 10pm
Thursday 11am - 10pm
Friday 11am - 10pm
Saturday 11am - 10pm
Sunday 11am - 10pm

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What people say

Seoul Taco, located at 1321 E. 57th Street in Chicago, is a standout destination for those seeking a delicious fusion of Korean and Mexican flavors. This award-winning establishment has made a name for itself as one of the top food trucks in the nation, earning accolades from renowned publications such as Daily Meal and Sauce Magazine.

The brainchild of restaurateur David Choi, Seoul Taco offers an innovative menu that artfully combines classic Korean BBQ with vibrant Mexican street fare. Each dish is crafted using fresh ingredients, ensuring that every bite is bursting with flavor. The fast-casual dining experience makes it easy to enjoy these mouthwatering creations on the go or to savor them in a relaxed setting.

What sets Seoul Taco apart is not just its delectable offerings but also its commitment to community. Each location is uniquely designed with the help of local artists, creating an inviting atmosphere that encourages patrons to gather and enjoy their meals together.

Whether you're a fan of Korean BBQ or looking to try something new, Seoul Taco promises an unforgettable culinary experience that celebrates the best of both worlds.

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