5836 S Harlem Ave, Summit IL Tue–Sun 11am–10pm · (708) 701-2190
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From a Garage in Cicero
to the Biggest Lots in Chicago

What started on a flat top in a garage has become one of the busiest taco operations in the city. We built it with family, neighbours and a lot of people standing in line, and we still run every version of it at once.

Explore the Story

  1. The Pop-Ups

    Started in a garage. Mom’s recipes on a flat top and an address you had to text for. Then barber shops, tattoo studios, a lot in Pilsen. First festival that July.

    2020–2021

  2. The Festivals

    Sueños in May. Summer Smash in June. Taste of Chicago in July. Branded tents and a line crew, not a truck parked somewhere.

    2022

  3. The Truck

    March. Wrapped, mascot on the side, their own number down the flank. Three years cooking out of other people’s lots, finally in their own.

    2023

  4. The Belt

    Critic’s Choice at Lakeview Taco Fest. The belt hangs in the restaurant.

    2024

  5. Harlem Ave

    5836 S Harlem, Summit. An old Pizza Hut. Doors opened in December, grand opening on Cinco de Mayo.

    2025
  6. Today

    All Three at Once

    Restaurant, truck and festival stand, all running. Back at Lollapalooza.

    Restaurant Truck Festival Stand

Meet the Owners

The Brothers

Anthony Solis in a Prime Tacos tee cooking on a TV studio set with two hosts

Anthony Solis

Co-Owner

Anthony runs everything that happens away from the flat top. He is the one on WGN and ABC7, the voice on WGN Radio during Hispanic Heritage Month, and the one who sat down with the Food Truck Empire podcast to tell the story from the garage forward. Festival organizers and anyone booking the trailer get him on the phone.

He started Prime Tacos with Eric in a Cicero garage in 2020, cooking family recipes on a single flat top with a phone number for a storefront. The Hot Cheeto Burger came out of that garage and had three Chicago television stations on the block inside a week. Five years later the same operation runs a restaurant on Harlem Avenue, a trailer working private events across the city, and a festival stand that has set up at Lollapalooza, Taste of Chicago and Sueños.

Eric Cardenas holding up a tray of chicken al pastor tacos with lime and grilled jalapeño

Eric Cardenas

Co-Owner

Eric runs the kitchen. The al pastor marinated overnight, the arrachera off the flat top, and the birria that ends up in the tacos, the ramen, the egg rolls and the Cheeto-crusted balls are all his.

He built the menu with Anthony from the first day in the garage and has cooked it everywhere it has gone since: the pop-up that drew lines around the block, the trailer, the festival stands, and now the kitchen on Harlem Avenue. The arrachera taco that took Critics Choice at Lakeview Taco Fest came off his flat top.