{"id":222754,"date":"2026-03-16T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222754\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:54:09","slug":"taqueria-yarelis-opens-third-location-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222754\/","title":{"rendered":"Taqueria Yarelis opens third location in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taqueria Yarelis will open a third Fresno location at Blackstone and Nees in April.Viral 3-foot Anaconda burrito, credited with boosting sales, remains a flagship menu item.New site will mirror existing menu and add breakfast burritos and quesabirria offerings.<\/p>\n

Taqueria Yarelis<\/a> \u2014 maker of the viral 3-foot Anaconda burrito \u2014 is opening its third restaurant in Fresno.<\/p>\n

The Mexican restaurant plans to open its northernmost spot yet at the northwest corner of Blackstone and Nees avenues in April. It\u2019s taking over the space left by Brothers Ramen & Japanese Eatery<\/a> when it closed, in the same shopping center as Rubber Soul Bicycles<\/a> and diagonally across the intersection from River Park, .<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a very perfect place for a third location,\u201d said Edwin Espinoza, an owner, cook and a head of social media for the restaurant his family runs.<\/p>\n

Taqueria Yarelis has a menu full of tacos, burritos, asada fries, sopes and tortas. There\u2019s also what it calls antojitos \u2014 its mangoanadas, fruit cups and more.<\/p>\n

What\u2018s on Taqueria Yarelis menu? \"Edwin Edwin Espinoza of Taqueria Yarelis, a Fresno taqueria, holds an Anaconda burrito. The whopper of a burrito is 3 feet long. Aleksandra Konstantinovic Fresno Bee file <\/p>\n

The Anaconda burrito is its claim to fame.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a behemoth that can feed up to eight people. It went viral in 2016<\/a>, racking up 16 million views on Facebook. People walked away from the restaurant cradling it like a newborn baby \u2014 and it weighed as much as one.<\/p>\n

There are two versions of it \u2014 the Anaconda for $55. 99 and the Anaconda Supreme for $59.99. Both come with your choice of meats, along with rice, beans and salsa. The Supreme version comes with guacamole, cheese and sour cream.<\/p>\n

The boost in sales from the viral burrito helped the original Taqueria Yarelis grow.<\/p>\n

The business started as a street vendor before opening the location at 429 Fresno St., near Belmont Avenue, in 2015. It has walk-up window and outdoor seating.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s named after Edwin\u2019s little sister, Yarelis, who was a toddler at the time. She\u2019s in her 20s now.<\/p>\n

After the Anaconda went viral, the restaurant expanded to the southwest corner of Willow and Herndon avenues.<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s expanding again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis north side of Fresno is just going to be perfect,\u201d Espinoza said.<\/p>\n

It will have the same menu as the others. Though it\u2019s a taqueria, it sells a lot of burritos \u2014 the regular sized-ones, he said.<\/p>\n

The new location will add breakfast burritos and quesabirria<\/a> to the menu.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what the food is, Espinoza said the family just loves to feed people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really what we love to do,\u201d he said. \u201cWe love to make tacos. We love to make people happy with our food.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Taqueria Taqueria Yarelis has a new, future location in the shopping center in the northwest corner of Blackstone and Nees avenues, near the Rubber Soul bike shop. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com <\/p>\n

This story was originally published March 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM.<\/p>\n

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Bethany Clough covers restaurants and retail for The Fresno Bee. A reporter for more than 20 years, she now works to answer readers\u2019 questions about business openings, closings and other business news. She has a degree in journalism from Syracuse University and her last name is pronounced Cluff.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Taqueria Yarelis will open a third Fresno location…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[101291,63218,112,114,101697,113,23478,101293],"class_list":["post-222754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-anaconda-burrito","tag-blackstone-and-nees","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-mexican-restaurant","tag-fresno-news","tag-river-park","tag-taqueria-yarelis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}