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Free tacos anyone? For a year?!

A new restaurant in Vienna is offering the Mexican staple to the first 100 customers who enter its doors. Taco Bamba, by chef Victor Albisu, is opening on September 8 at 11 a.m. The promotion includes one free taco a week for a year.

Albisu got his start setting up a sandwich counter at his family’s Latin grocery store, and eventually wound up running the kitchen at BLT Steak. In early 2013, he opened the South American vineyard-inspired Del Campo and later that year, he opened the first Taco Bamba as a takeout taqueria in Falls Church—in the same shopping center where his mom owns Plaza Latina Market.

“The idea behind it really has always been to do something very straightforward, very traditional,” Albisu told DCist food writer Josh Novikoff at the time. “But as we thought about it, we wanted to do some non-traditional as well. So we drew very distinct lines between what’s traditional and what’s not.”

Novikoff recommends the Carne asada, served in a tortilla as a strip of steak instead of being chopped up. The Torta Bamba is also good for three or four meals as it’s layered with eight types of meat between the bun “and is larger than just about anything I’ve ever seen in these parts.”

The Vienna location will be larger than its Falls Church counterpart, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the Vienna deal. At 2,000 square feet, the space will feature a full bar and seat 42 people.

Albisu is also adding new menu items such as ceviche-stacked tostadas, quesadillas, five kinds of nachos, and Mexican-inspired cocktails, according to The Post. He’s planning to open a third location in Springfield, Virginia early next year.

In November, Chick-fil-A’s First 100 deal brought the masses to Columbia Heights, with people lining up 24 hours early to snag the chicken deal. As Taco Bamba is one of the best taco spots in the area, deal-goers may want to plan wisely.