Taco Bamba founder Victor Albisu is opening Electric Bull, a South American-style steakhouse and butcher shop, at 176 Maple Ave. W. — three doors down from his existing Vienna taqueria.

The chef-driven concept brings together three decorated kitchens under one roof. Albisu, a Northern Virginia native and two-time James Beard nominee, is partnering with Justin Severino, the four-time James Beard-nominated chef and whole-animal butcher behind Pittsburgh's Morcilla, which Bon Appétit named No. 4 in the country in its Best New Restaurants issue after the restaurant opened in December 2015. Executive chef Adam Hoffa rounds out the team; Hoffa won Arlington Magazine's Best Chef honor in 2025 while leading the kitchen at Ballston's Pirouette Cafe & Wine Bar before it closed in October 2025.

The menu leans heavily on live-fire cooking. Eater DC reported in its spring 2026 restaurant preview that the lineup includes hanger, flank and flat iron steaks, South American-style short ribs, sweetbreads, a family recipe for chorizo, and the rolled skirt steak Albisu used to beat Bobby Flay on Food Network's "Beat Bobby Flay." His charred honey lamb ribs with chimi-chermoula and smoked oyster barbecue sauce, which won the Chefs' Choice award at the Masters of Fire competition during February's South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami, will also be on the menu, according to TysonsToday.

A retail butcher counter will operate alongside the restaurant.

Albisu opened Taco Bamba in 2013 as a takeout window in Falls Church, next to Plaza Latina, a Latin market owned by his mother. The chain now has 16 locations across the Mid-Atlantic and Nashville. Before launching Taco Bamba, Albisu ran the kitchen at BLT Steak in Washington, D.C., and later opened Del Campo, an upscale South American grill in Penn Quarter that Washingtonian magazine called "Washington's best steakhouse" in 2014. Severino is a partner in Electric Bull, not merely a hired chef, Eater DC reported.

The space at 176 Maple Ave. W. sits three doors west of Albisu's Vienna Taco Bamba at 164 Maple Ave. W., adding another chef-driven restaurant to a corridor that has seen recent arrivals including Shilla Bakery at 340 Maple Ave. W. and Mashahweez Shawarma and Grill at 126 Maple Ave. W.

No opening date has been confirmed. The restaurant's website lists active job postings as of Tuesday, Aug. 18, and a dining patio permit is pending with the town, according to a TysonsToday news brief.