Taco Mundo expects 2,500–3,000 attendees

A restaurant party is turning into a crowd-management story in North Myrtle Beach. Taco Mundo Kitchen y Cantina says its Cinco de Mayo celebration on Tuesday, May 5 could bring in 2,500 to 3,000 people — big enough that the event starts to look less like a normal holiday special and more like a mini festival. That matters because the restaurant sits at Barefoot Landing, a high-traffic entertainment area already built around walking, parking, and waterfront foot traffic. This year, the hook is simple: Cinco de Mayo lands on Taco Tuesday. ### Why is this getting so much attention? Because Taco Mundo is not pitching this as a quiet lunch crowd. The restaurant is calling it the biggest Cinco de Mayo fiesta on the Grand Strand, and the expected turnout backs that up. A few thousand people at one restaurant site means lines, parking pressure, and spillover into the rest of Barefoot Landing — even before you get to the holiday drinking crowd. ### What exactly is happening? The event starts at noon on Tuesday, May 5, at Taco Mundo’s Barefoot Landing location, 4732 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach, and runs through the day. The public-facing promos point to taco specials, tequila tastings, live music, giveaways, vendors, and a “human piñata” game where guests use pool noodles for prizes. That lineup is basically built to keep people hanging around, not just eating and leaving. ### Who’s behind it? Taco Mundo is part of Homegrown Hospitality Group, which runs the concept as a high-energy Mexican and Mexican-American restaurant brand. The North Myrtle Beach location has the right setup for this kind of thing — waterfront views, a bar program built around margaritas, mezcal, and tequila, and enough built-in event energy that a holiday party can scale fast. In other words, this is not a one-off pop-up. It’s a restaurant that already operates like an event space. ### Why does the 2,500-to-3,000 number matter? Because that is a serious attendance estimate for a single restaurant activation. Even if that figure is spread across hours rather than all at once, it signals a very different operating day for staff, security, parking, and nearby businesses. When a manager puts that number out publicly, the message is not just “come celebrate.” It’s also “plan ahead.” ### Is this just a restaurant event? Not really. It sits inside a wider Grand Strand Cinco de Mayo calendar, but Taco Mundo keeps showing up as one of the marquee stops. Local event roundups are highlighting it alongside area bars and restaurants, and the timing helps — noon start, waterfront setting, and a holiday that rolls straight into the evening crowd. That makes it a daytime anchor for people building a full Cinco de Mayo itinerary. ### Why does Taco Tuesday change the equation? Because it gives the event a second layer of built-in demand. Taco Tuesday is already a familiar restaurant ritual in the U.S., and Cinco de Mayo is already one of the busiest promotional days for Mexican restaurants. Put them on the same date and you get a kind of demand stack — two reasons to show up, one calendar slot. That does not automatically guarantee record sales, but it absolutely raises the odds of an outsized crowd. ### So what should readers take from this? The real story is scale. Taco Mundo is not just offering drink specials on a holiday. It is preparing for festival-size traffic at one of North Myrtle Beach’s busiest visitor hubs. If the turnout lands anywhere near the top of the estimate, Tuesday will be less about grabbing tacos and more about navigating one of the Grand Strand’s biggest single-venue Cinco de Mayo crowds.