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Family Business: TacoTento is set to open soon

Joab and Christina Vargas are nearing the opening of Taco Tento quesabirrias at Lakeshore Place shopping center along John Morrow Parkway. - photo by Scott Rogers

04122025 TACOTENTO 3.jpg — Joab and Christina Vargas are nearing the opening of Taco Tento quesabirrias at Lakeshore Place shopping center along John Morrow Parkway. - photo by Scott Rogers

Christina Vargas likes to think of the name of her family’s new restaurant, TacoTento, as a “mash up” of two words and two worlds: happiness and tacos.