Shop Around: New taco restaurant coming to Vista this spring

A new Tex Mex eatery will open in the Vista in April.

Texas-based Sure Fire Tacos & Tortilla Grill will be opening its first location in South Carolina in the Vista in the former Salsarita’s location at 916 Gervais St., the restaurant’s operating manager said Wednesday.

Sure Fire’s only other location opened in Killeen, Texas, two years ago, according to co-owner and operating manager Dylan Stump, making the Vista location only its second location.

“We wanted to expand out of Texas and we looked all over the U.S.and we just really liked Columbia and especially the Vista area,” said Stump who will be relocating to Columbia to manage the new location. “It’s just a beautiful town.”

Sure Fire is represented by Carolinas Retail Partners, who will also help the eatery with expansions planned later this year and next for locations in Greenville and Charlotte, Stump said.

This story was originally published January 21, 2016 at 9:34 AM.