A downtown Pueblo taco joint known for its eclectic fresh food has reopened after a short hiatus with a new name but the same food that customers have come to expect.

B&C Tacos Inc., formerly known as Dee Tacko, held a “soft opening” last week at 123 Main St., said new owner Bruce Deveraux.

Deveraux said that so far, things at the restaurant have been “going very well."

"We are offering free street tacos and roasting chiles out front every Saturday for the next couple of weeks and we even had a fundraiser for the jazz band at Central High School,” Deveraux said.

The free street taco giveaway and Anaheim chile roasting will run for the next two Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m.

Deveraux’s family moved to Pueblo when he was just 3 years old, so the city is home to him. He went to Centennial High School and graduated in 1993. Today, his kids go to Central High School.

Deveraux is no stranger to the city's restaurant scene, having gotten his first job at the age of 16 at Burger King on U.S. Highway 50. He has since amassed 30 years of experience working in food service.

He went on to work at Cracker Barrel, helped open the Jack in the Box restaurants in Pueblo and worked at Country Buffett. Before becoming a restaurant owner, he worked nearly four years as food service director at the private Crowley County prison and even helped the kitchen staff at the Bent County prison before becoming “semiretired,” he said.

His wife, Marisol Ivette Deveraux, helped run the kitchen at Dee Tacko, so he would stop in on occasion and help.

The restaurant opened as Dee Tacko in 2020 when step-brothers Juan Herrera and Arturo “Chef Cesar” Munoz teamed up. Herrera decided to move on, so Munoz asked Deveraux if he wanted to run the business.

"We still have the same menu because we have the same chef (Munoz) who created everything. He stayed on board to help out in the kitchen,” Deveraux said.

“We brought back salads, fish tacos and tortas,” which are Mexican sandwiches on a fluffy bun.

“I am working on a couple of different things, like I just got in some cod so I am playing around with a fried cod which is great this time of year” during Lent, he said.

B&C Tacos is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The business' phone number is 719-924-9688.

More on the restaurant's origins:A banker and a contractor opened Dee Tacko. Here is how two step brothers became Pueblo's 'Taco Bros'

Chieftain reporter Tracy Harmon covers business news. She can be reached by email at tharmon@chieftain.com or via Twitter at twitter.com/tracywumps.

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