The Tamale Co. Opens Grab-And-Go Bodega In Duncanville

From Oak Cliff Advocate:

By Audrey Love

August 26th, 2020

The Tamale Company’s name doesn’t tell the whole story.

While the business started as a tamale-only operation out of a catering kitchen in Southlake, co-owner Elizabeth Plimmer-Fernandez says that in more than 10 years since its inception, the menu has grown to include a range of nostalgic Mexican cuisine. And it’s all ready-to-eat at their new brick-and-mortar location in Duncanville.

The Tamale Co. sells tamales across the Dallas area at numerous pop-up locations, groceries and farmers markets as well as through their tamale-cart catering, porch delivery and online shipping orders. This latest venture turned their catering kitchen into a bodega at 626 S. Cedar Ridge Road in Duncanville.

Plimmer-Fernandez says the bodega was a solution to offset a downturn in catering orders due to the pandemic and provide the community with home-cooked “grab-and-go” meals.

“During the pandemic, we want to enjoy our job as much as we want people to enjoy the food. It’s just hard times, it’s a new sense of life for a lot of people, so we’re trying to figure it out,” Plimmer says. “If I have the opportunity to create an environment that I enjoy working in, that I can create food that people are going to enjoy, that’s going to be a better experience for the consumer and for myself.”

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