Seoul Taco will open new location in Chesterfield

Seoul Taco continues to grow, and this time it’s headed to West County. The popular Korean-Mexican eatery will open its fifth location in Chesterfield at 46 Four Seasons Shopping Center later this fall. In addition to the Seoul Taco food truck and the original brick-and-mortar location in the Delmar Loop, Seoul Taco has locations in Columbia, Missouri; Champaign, Illinois and Chicago.

“I grew up out here,” owner David Choi said of Chesterfield. “More than anything, I’m familiar with the area, and there’s not much food like ours out here. We thought it’d be a good fit.”

Choi said the space, which used to be a Panera location, will seat approximately 100. Alex Morales of Smartmouth Design in Chicago will design the interior of the restaurant, and local company Shellback Iron Works will design the furniture.

“Having been an existing restaurant, [the space will] be easy to transition into what we do,” Choi said. “We’ll need to put in new hoods, but it’s nice that a lot of the plumbing and mechanicals are intact.” He said construction is scheduled to begin next week.

Choi said the Chesterfield menu will be basically the same as the other locations.

“We’ve been messing around with some menu concepts that we could add across the board,” he said. “Anytime we launch a new store, we review what we want to do with the menu. As of now there’s nothing concrete, but we’ll have a little bit of change. If we change in one, we like to change across the board.”

Choi said he hopes to open the doors in November, before the holiday season.

Matt Sorrell is staff writer at Sauce Magazine.