Cantina Alley, the Mexican street food spot that has been dishing out tacos and margaritas from Midtown Sacramento for nine years, is expanding to Folsom. The restaurant announced that its second location will open at 718 Sutter St. in Folsom's Historic District, bringing its full bar program along for the ride.
The new outpost is expected to open in fall 2026, according to The Sacramento Bee, which cited an announcement on Cantina Alley's Instagram page for both the address and timing. The original Cantina Alley sits at 2320 Jazz Alley in Midtown, where it has built a following on tacos, tortas, sopa and aguas frescas. Owners Art Aguilar and Max Archuleta also run Abuelas Midtown and De Cache, both located at 2321 K St. in Sacramento.
What's on the Menu
Regulars can expect the same customer favorites that made the Midtown location a hit, including elote, potato tacos, fish tacos and al pastor tacos. The deep-fried potato taco arrives topped with cabbage, salsa verde, Cotija cheese and a radish garnish, according to the restaurant's online ordering page on toasttab.com. The al pastor features pork marinated in a house-made spiced achiote salsa, sautéed with onions and pineapple, per the same listing.
Other menu staples include beer-battered fried huachinango, or fresh red snapper, and shredded chicken taquitos topped with salsa roja, molcajete salsa, cabbage and crema. The street corn, meanwhile, gets rolled in house-made crema and dusted with Cotija cheese and Mexican spices before it hits the table.
Cocktails Coming Along for the Move
The Folsom location will include Cantina Alley's full cocktail menu, the Bee reported. That means the signature Cantina Margarita, made with blue agave tequila, lime juice, organic agave nectar and a salted rim, should be pourable at both locations. The bar menu also features a panzona michelada, a watermelon margarita and a mangonada slushie made with tequila, alongside Mexican craft beer.
Cantina Alley's owners said they have been on an upward swing by reinventing the restaurant, focusing on their passions, delivering an authentic Mexican experience and listening closely to customers, according to the same Bee report.
A Historic District With Deep Roots
Folsom's Historic District dates back to the 1850s and is now home to more than 100 businesses, according to Historic Folsom. The district's Sutter Street corridor, where Cantina Alley is set to land, underwent a revitalization project that wrapped up in 2011, turning the stretch into one of the area's dining and shopping hubs.
Cantina Alley isn't the first Sacramento-area restaurant to bet on Folsom's growth. Dos Coyotes Border Cafe opened a second Folsom location in the Broadstone Marketplace last year, per the Sacramento Business Journal, and Knee Deep Brewing started serving food at its Folsom taproom on E. Bidwell Street earlier this year. Separately, a 2025 report from What Now Sacramento said Nixtaco was taking over the former Cantina Pedregal space in Folsom to open a second Nixtaco location, though that account has not been independently confirmed here.
