Get festive at new Pepo’s Burrito Bar, Parkside Dr.
General manager Elizabeth Llamas explained limited service is considered one that provides service for the food, but drink is self-serve.
While serving dishes, such as Chipotles, Pepo’s is “more on the traditional side of Mexican food,” she said.
With an interactive menu, “(customers) can choose what they want and build their meal,” Llamas said.
For example, they can make their own burrito, quesadilla, nachos, taco salad, burrito bowl, salad or tacos.
Customers can choose from a soft flour tortilla, soft corn tortilla or hard shell.
Also included are rice, black beans or refried beans; meats, such as steak, grilled chicken, ground beef, shredded chicken, shrimp, chorizo, barbacoa, carnitas, vegan chicken or vegan beef; cheese dip; vegetables; and salsas.
For an additional five-minute wait, they can choose to add ribeye steak, arrachera or charcoal chicken breast. Other choices are chips and salsa, French fries or broccoli.
They can round out the meat with flan, a custard, as dessert.
Pepo’s also has a kids’ meal, where they can choose from a make-their-own burrito, quesadilla, nachos or choose chicken fingers with fries, corn dog or cheese quesadilla with fries.
To wash it down, Pepo’s carries beer but soon will have liquor and draft beer.
The family-owned restaurant started in 2019, when the Llamas family moved to Tennessee from Dalton, Georgia.
“We had wanted to come to the Knoxville area, but stopped in McMinn County (Etowah) because (that area) needed a restaurant,” Llamas said.
Since then, Pepo’s also has expanded to Athens (McMinn County) in 2020 and Lenoir City.
They choose Turkey Creek “because we love the area and people here are great,” Llamas said.
“I guess our purpose is to serve all these areas here,” she added.
Pepo’s Burrito Bar is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday.
