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Esse Taco

Mexico City-style taqueria · 1 location · Brooklyn: Williamsburg

Tacos for about five dollars at a standing-room counter on Bedford Avenue. It comes from Enrique Olvera, the chef behind Pujol and Cosme, and is one of a dozen restaurants his Mexico City group runs. The group has no outside investor on record.

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Esse Taco is a single standing-room counter in Williamsburg owned inside Casamata, the Mexico City group chef Enrique Olvera founded, and no outside investor has ever been disclosed at either level. An April 2024 hiring notice put back-of-house pay at $16.00 to $19.00 an hour alongside health, dental and vision insurance and paid time off, which is unusually full for a taco counter. As a two-year-old single shop it has little environmental or supply-chain record either way, and it answers to Olvera and his own partners rather than to a fund.

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Company data last updated September 2026

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