- April 18, 2024
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Nick Formisano and his father sell over 500 empanadas a week.
It's one of the menu items for which their food truck, Tango01, is most well-known. And soon, they'll be serving empanadas from their first brick-and-mortar restaurant, to be called Tango's, at 600 S. Yonge St. Unit 16B in Ormond Beach.
"We found that we really like working in Ormond," Formisano said. "... We started thinking of the idea after COVID of having a restaurant, because there were no events during COVID, and we were like, 'Man, we're really depending on these events for work."
Growing up in South Florida, Formisano was surrounded by locally-owned restaurants. But when he moved to Central Florida, he found himself eating mostly at chains. Tired of working at a dealership at the time, he convinced his father, Andres, to move from South Florida and the pair opened their food truck in 2017, based out of Deltona. Since then, they have found success in participating in events with local breweries such as Beachside Brew Pub and Red Pig Brewery.
And while there are several Mexican restaurants in the area, Formisano — who is Argentinian — is striving to provide more latin food dishes for the community. From chimichurri steaks, to pinchos, chorizo and of course, empanadas, Tango's will offer a fusion of Argentinian, Dominican, Cuban and other latin cuisine.
"We definitely want people to try out different foods, be a little more creative with what they eat, because it's not just us being creative in what we sell, but people being open to trying it," Formisano said.
Formisano hopes to open Tango's sometime in September.
