When does Taco Bueno Open

I went there around 7PM for dinner. It was f'n tremendous. All their management was there for the opening to make sure things ran smoothly. The drive thru moved quickly, inside not so much. The $0.99 menu was tremendous. Ordered 3 crunchy tacos, 1 bean burrito, and 1 chips & queso, and ate it all in like 10 minutes. It was amazing. I'll be back there in a few weeks.
 
I drive by every day to and from work. One thing I have noticed is the drive through is up front on Slaughter while the dining room with windows is around back, facting a bunch of cedar trees. Is this Taco Bueno's normal layout? Or did someome make a major construction gaffe and turn the blueprints around?

Driving by, particularly at night, you have to look hard to see it's open. All you see from Slaughter is a brick wall facade with the drive up menus and intercom. Just seems odd-looking.
 
How late is it open?

I think me and a co-worker are going for lunch on Friday. What to order? Never been.
 
Fied,

Your bread and butter item is the Muchaco. I never go to Bueno without at least one. It is similar to a Chalupa from Taco Bell. Fried flatbread with beans, beef, cheese, etc. Delicious.

From there, I prefer the burrito family, the standard bean is very good, as are the potato varieties. I also really recommend the Mexi Dips & Chips, which is tortilla chips with queso, refried beans and guacamole. The salsa at TB is also top notch for fast food Mexican.

Enjoy!
 
just had a mid-afternoon lunch there and it was good Bueno (I've eaten TB since the 1st one opened in Abilene in the early '60s). steady traffic in and out (3pm) but not Krispy Kreme krazy.

the area mgr was walking around asking everyone how it was and told me the next one is opening in Round Rock at hwys 79 and 1460 in March. said planning on 3-4 more.

I don't mean to dog on any company's marketing research, but the 1st one should have been built w/in 2 blocks of UT. that sucker would have paid for construction of the next ones in abt 6 months.
 
I had lunch there Friday and had the mucho nacho combo with a soft taco. I would rate Taco Cabana above it but it was obviously better than Taco Bell. I'll go again and try the muchaco and a beef burrito.
 
I grew up in North Texas and was raised on Taco Bueno. Hadn't had it in a few years. Went by the new location last night and got my old standby, the Chilada Platter. Just as good as I remembered.
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Five years ago I would've put Cabana at the same level, but it's really gone downhill IMHO.
 
why don't you just try it and get back with us? i personally think it blows Cabana away and taco hell was never part of the equation.
 
gak, i haven't eaten at taco bell in at least 4 years so i'm in agreement with you. i had no idea what to expect from taco bueno but i would put taco cabana ahead of that. i have eaten at TCs more recently although likely not sober. :)
 
I ate there on the 15th and it was packed. The drive-through line was long but there was enough table-turns for me to not have to wait for a table. Never been there before so got the number one I think which comes with a beef burrito and a taco. It took 15 minutes to get food.

I hit the salsa bar while waiting and sampled everything. The pico is mostly onion with either late August sugar content tomatoes available in January, or sugar. I am thinking sugar. It wasn't bad but the few flakes of jalapeño I could see barely flavored it, much less provided any spice. The red salsas were especially bland, and their "spicy" was as mild as you can get without being pured tomato concasse. I will say this in its favor - it all tasted very fresh. The bar had pickled jalapeños but I'd prefer raw to give the pico a pick-up.

The beef taco was good but someone had a heavy hand with the salt. The beef burrito was good too, super fresh and the flavor reminded me of, this is odd but not a complaint, the Tuesday beef soft tacos at my middle school cafeteria. Something about the sour cream (was it real?), the beef and the tort.

I will go back for the muchachos and some of their other items. What are the can't miss, never fail ones? The food was tasty but the lack of any heat in anything puts this place solidly in the gringo category. Fresher and less processed than Bell, but if I needed fast food Tex-Mex, I'd still head up Loop One to Cabana.
 
My wife picked up dinner there last night from the drive through. She had to wait about 15 minutes to order because the line was so long. However, the food was good and I can't complain. We'll definitely be going back because we live so close.
 
yah i've been waiting for this to happen... since i live on william cannon and westgate, it's pretty damn close.
drove by the other night and saw this.... "wholotta platter" which i do not recall from me living in dallas before i went to UT. must be fairly new. so obviously i tried it and it was ******* awesome. been almost 2 years since i had been to bueno in dallas. i've missed it greatly.

6.59 after tax. it's awesome. hell ******* yes.
 
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