Tia’s Taco Hut is planning to open a new restaurant at 4211 E. 1604 N., Suite 111, in San Antonio, with a project registration filed for a first-time finish-out inside the Aycock Retail development. The filing lists roughly 2,250 square feet of buildout with an estimated construction cost of $225,000, pointing to another addition in the Tex-Mex chain’s steady march across the metro.
Filing Details Point to a Full Interior Buildout
According to WhatNow, the project registration was filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and registered October 1. The scope includes new interior partition walls along with mechanical, electrical and plumbing work, standard components for converting a raw retail space into a functioning restaurant. Benny Costello is listed as the tenant on the filing, while Unbranded Partners 1604 LLC is identified as the property owner. No opening date has been disclosed in the registration.
Tia’s Taco Hut serves Tex-Mex dishes throughout its San Antonio-area locations, per the company’s own website as cited in the WhatNow report. The menu spans tacos filled with chicken fajita, carne guisada, carne asada, barbacoa and beef fajita, alongside breakfast tacos and Mexican breakfast plates like huevos rancheros, chilaquiles, migas and steak and eggs. Specialty plates round things out with chicken tortilla soup, fajita nachos, grilled chicken salad, burgers, chicken fried steak, fish tacos and fried seafood plates, plus soups, salads and nachos.
A Chain That Keeps Adding Addresses
This latest filing follows a pattern the chain has repeated across the region. Tia’s Taco Hut opened its 14th San Antonio-area location at 3643 Evans Road on September 13, 2025, marking its second new opening that year, according to Community Impact. A 15th location followed at 6032 Montgomery Road in January, celebrated with a 99-cent cheese enchilada plate deal, as the Express-News reported. By early March, the chain had opened a 16th location on Fredericksburg Road in a space that formerly housed a Wendy’s, a move mysanantonio.com described as part of the local chain continuing to expand its footprint in the Alamo City.
The company was founded by Benny and Lisa Costello in 2014, Hoodline has reported in its earlier coverage of the chain’s Schertz debut plans. That Schertz project, located at 4721 Roy Richards Drive, calls for a roughly 2,500-square-foot restaurant with an estimated $250,000 buildout, construction slated to begin October 30 and wrap by March 26, 2027. Tia’s Taco Hut already has locations throughout San Antonio as well as in New Braunfels.
How Many Locations Does the Chain Actually Have?
Exactly how large the chain has grown depends on which source is doing the counting. The WhatNow report tied to this latest filing states Tia’s Taco Hut lists 17 locations on its own website, while the company’s Instagram account, @tias.tacohut, currently promotes itself as having 16 locations. Hoodline’s prior reporting noted the company’s website stated 17 locations at the time, and the site has separately listed 18 locations as well. The discrepancies suggest the chain’s location count shifts depending on when and where it is checked, with no single current total confirmed across all sources.
