Barrio
Multiple Locations
Yeah, Barrio has blown up in recent years with locations all over town. But their expansion has just made them more beloved in the eyes of Clevelanders, because now whereever you live, you’re a stone’s throw away from some delicious and inexpensive tacos.
Photo via @Barrio_Cleveland/Instagram Credit: Photo via @Barrio_Cleveland/Instagram
Update: Barrio is officially opening a new location in Strongsville, a new Twitter post revealed yesterday. Earlier this fall (as seen below), the taco eatery had only hinted at the possibility of coming to the westside suburb. Now there’s a sign up and everything.
The restaurant appears to be opening in the former Molly McGhees Sports Bar at 13169 Prospect Rd., which closed last year.
*** (Original Story 8/23/2019): Cleveland’s beloved Barrio is expanding once again, the choose-your-own-taco-adventure restaurant recently announced on Twitter. This time, the local chain looks to take over Strongsville.
While every other Cleveland-area location is set in a high foot-traffic area, this westside suburb isn’t exactly known for its walkability. However, wherever a Barrio is built, people seem to come. Because, have you tried that queso?
Barrio is also opening a Kent location soon and has plans to open on the Michigan State University campus sometime this fall. The Strongsville location will be the restaurant’s tenth.
As we said last year, it’s unclear where yet another Barrio location might open next, but after only being open since 2012, the company is on pace to take over the Midwest.
We’ll update you as this story develops.
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20 replies on “The Cleveland Area Is About to Get Another Barrio, Whether We Need One or Not”
Whether we need one or not. Lets let the fans decide that!!!!
Strongsville is a perfect fit for what barrio has become: a Sysco supplied slop for slightly out of step suburbanites.
Watch for the hipper locations to close, and something of quality comes along.
How anyone can think that Barrio is good is beyond me. Store bought taco shells filled with sub-par ingredients. Gross. There are so many better options out there.
Excellent.
I will appreciate a shorter wait at the Lakewood one without all the tourists.
Quiero dos tacos carne asada, con queso, lechuga, y nada mas. Donde esta San Ysidro anyways?
Racist headline.
I saw this headline and had a strong feeling it was going to be in Strongsville or North Olmsted. Both places lack class and this won’t help. But all the taco loving Tinder girls (and there are a LOT) will take note and make this a suburb smash, I’m sure.
To the other comment about Barrio having become a Sysco restaurant. Yep, that’s what happens when a small restaurant expands and starts selling 540,000 tacos to white girls on Tuesdays. Sysco is easy and cheap and their higher end products are very good. But the low to mid level stuff, which I’m sure Barrio uses, is nothing special and would definitely make the food lose some spark. It’s a hard balancing act, but they’re going for quantity over quality, clearly, so fuck them in the end! lol
They were cool and worth the trip when they were just in Lakewood and Tremont. Now they suck.
You want authenticity? Just m,osey on over to La Plaza on Lakewood Hts. Blvd. Best in town!
I’m a white city progressive…what does that make me? And I still think Barrio sucks.
Barrio sells decent food in a somewhat tacky setting and always has. I’m guessing they’ll continue to do so with or without yupster clout
Kind of an odd location in Strongsville. You think they would want to be by the mall or Pearl rd.
Not too excited, it’s just OK. But it’s right around the corner from us, so we’ll give it a try. There isn’t really any good Mexican ( I use that term lightly when referring to Barrio) in town.
I never knew 🌮 could fuel such rage
Please, just take the one at Cedar/Fairmount away. worst thing to happen to that area.
Open disdain for white suburbanites should be met with closed fists.
Bring it on, Karma. Come to West Park, and you’ll go home as shepherd’s pie.
Danger! Keyboard Warrior Alert! Danny hard guy in the room!
Lol…Father Russ would be delivering your last rights Phony Clevelander.
Hey, stupid, it’s “rites”…you obviously went to a Cleveland public school and not a Catholic one. And Moronial can pick the time and the place to become pie.
If the tacos were better and larger, I wouldn’t mind having to peso much.
Whether we need one or not. Lets let the fans decide that!!!!
Strongsville is a perfect fit for what barrio has become: a Sysco supplied slop for slightly out of step suburbanites.
Watch for the hipper locations to close, and something of quality comes along.
How anyone can think that Barrio is good is beyond me. Store bought taco shells filled with sub-par ingredients. Gross. There are so many better options out there.
Excellent.
I will appreciate a shorter wait at the Lakewood one without all the tourists.
Quiero dos tacos carne asada, con queso, lechuga, y nada mas. Donde esta San Ysidro anyways?
Racist headline.
I saw this headline and had a strong feeling it was going to be in Strongsville or North Olmsted. Both places lack class and this won’t help. But all the taco loving Tinder girls (and there are a LOT) will take note and make this a suburb smash, I’m sure.
To the other comment about Barrio having become a Sysco restaurant. Yep, that’s what happens when a small restaurant expands and starts selling 540,000 tacos to white girls on Tuesdays. Sysco is easy and cheap and their higher end products are very good. But the low to mid level stuff, which I’m sure Barrio uses, is nothing special and would definitely make the food lose some spark. It’s a hard balancing act, but they’re going for quantity over quality, clearly, so fuck them in the end! lol
They were cool and worth the trip when they were just in Lakewood and Tremont. Now they suck.
You want authenticity? Just m,osey on over to La Plaza on Lakewood Hts. Blvd. Best in town!
I’m a white city progressive…what does that make me? And I still think Barrio sucks.
Barrio sells decent food in a somewhat tacky setting and always has. I’m guessing they’ll continue to do so with or without yupster clout
Kind of an odd location in Strongsville. You think they would want to be by the mall or Pearl rd.
Not too excited, it’s just OK. But it’s right around the corner from us, so we’ll give it a try. There isn’t really any good Mexican ( I use that term lightly when referring to Barrio) in town.
I never knew 🌮 could fuel such rage
Please, just take the one at Cedar/Fairmount away. worst thing to happen to that area.
Open disdain for white suburbanites should be met with closed fists.
Bring it on, Karma. Come to West Park, and you’ll go home as shepherd’s pie.
Danger! Keyboard Warrior Alert! Danny hard guy in the room!
Lol…Father Russ would be delivering your last rights Phony Clevelander.
Hey, stupid, it’s “rites”…you obviously went to a Cleveland public school and not a Catholic one. And Moronial can pick the time and the place to become pie.
If the tacos were better and larger, I wouldn’t mind having to peso much.