Tacos Ivan

I can see why people love this place — especially those that live in the neighborhood/​area. It’s the kind of small unassuming place that people take pride in discovering and calling their own.
I was in the area early one morning for an appointment. Since I live south, I am unfamiliar with this part of town. I was hungry and at a stop light pulled up Unilocal to see if there were any «breakfast tacos» nearby. This place popped up, was nearby, and had great ratings so I asked Unilocal for directions without reading anything about the place. I was a little disappointed when I drove up and saw it was a convenience store. I checked Unilocal again to make sure I was in the right place and then proceded to head inside. There is no seating — strictly a grab and go or call ahead.
I purchased a barbacoa taco on corn and a sausage and egg taco on flour. In my experience, tacos on corn tortillas are usually smaller than flour tortilla tacos so I was surprised to open up the larger of the two to see it was the barbacoa taco. The barbacoa was very good and moist but not greasy at all. They did not hold back in packing this taco full of meat! A+.
The egg and sausage taco was also very good and fresh, but I was very disappointed in the tiny size of the taco, especially since it was $ 2. I’ve had tacos this small before but they are usually 99 cents.
Both green and red sauce were good.
Overall, a solid taco joint, friendly service, and fresh food. It may be the best in the area but nothing to write home about.

Amazing tacos !!! Really nice folks working there.
I was in the area for lunch and didn’t want another chain restaurant. This place is inside the back of a C-​Mart convenience store that looks sketchy from the outside but food is fantastic. Recommend the chicken and beef fajita tacos!

Second best breakfast tacos in Austin, first being El Primo taco trailer on S. 1^st street. Definitely best in the neighborhood. Delicious and filling. Good portion size.

They are open until 2pm. The breakfast prices increase after 11am. I always get their potato and egg breakfast taco and it is tasty. I also enjoy the salsa it comes with.
Just recently there is an English speaking lady that takes the meal orders. It is easier to communicate for someone who isn’t s Spanish speaker.
This place is located in a gas station next to HEB

Very simple and quick. I love the cheese that the cook uses in the tacos. Very gooey. And I love me some cheese. The bad reviews are warrantless. They must have ordered wrong or got the wrong phone number. I go in and order and 2 minutes later I have the most delicious bacon egg and cheese taco ever. I personally like the red sauce better than the green… but that is pretty much everywhere except tacodeli. That Dona Sauce is da bomb!

This is the best place to get Tacos in this neighborhood period. I have been multiple times and it’s wonderful, always fresh, and the lady at the counter is a sweetheart. When my vegetarian friends, Mexican diehards, culinary school kids, and myself have unanimously voted this best taco stand off mopac, you know it’s a winner.
I like the Nopales and egg and a barbecoa for breakfast. Plus the gas station it’s in has great bev options! If you crave tacos and they’re open come here.

Breakfast tacos of champions. Chorimigas is what you want. On corn, gringo. Mean burritos at lunch.

The breakfast tacos were decent, by far not the best. The tortillas were the best part of the taco, soft and fluffy and delicious! I had a bean and egg taco and the beans were very peppery and just ok. I also had a potato and egg which was really good. I sampled my hubby’s barbacoa and chicken fajita tacos and both were pretty good. We only got the green salsa in the bag, and it was not very hot or flavorful. I would have liked to have tried the red salsa also. We will probably be back, because it is right down the road from work, cheap, and decent… not worth driving out of the way for.

I had a bad experience. Didn’t honor a coupon I brought. Looked like they were doing it to multiple customers — putting out offers to get people in then scamming them Raised prices, too. I’d go 3 star for the food only, less than 2 for customer service.

I work down the street and this is the only decent place for good tasting, simple, street style mexican food. It’s in a gas station convenience store (with a killer beer selection btw) and is typically operated by 1 woman who isn’t exactly the friendliest lady I’ve ever met. It’s also CASH only. All food is made to order.
I’ve had 2 of their breakfast tacos (migas, sausage and egg) and 3 different normal? tacos (barbocoa, pastor, and lengua). They offer choice of corn and flour tortillas and I of course not being a native Texan and sane get corn. The corn tortillas are store bought, flimsy, and doubled up for each taco. I think most food comes with the requisite 2 sauces: red and green. They are decent and pack a tiny bit of heat.
Good thing about the breakfast tacos are that they use real eggs, you can can see the lady cracking them as she makes your food. I think each is only $ 1.50.
Migas: meh, cheese costs extra and the fried tortillas get soggy very quickly
Sausage and egg: this was good, sausage appeared to be similar to one of those Jimmy Dean sausages with maple syrup. Even though the sausage is store bought the sweetness that they brought was nice.
All normal/​lunch tacos come with the correct toppings which would be just onion and cilantro. Other toppings are extra. Downside is that each cost $ 2.50 which IMO is about $ 0.50-$ 1 too much.
Barbocoa: moist, tender, and maybe slightly bland. Still damn good.
Lengua: awesome, super tender, good size chunks. Lengua is perfect for a taco.
Pastor: So so greasy. Seriously. The orange sauce went right through both tortillas. Only taco that really needed both tortillas from the first bite. Still good but somehow kinda bland too. Nothing compares to the pastor available in LA.
Overall a great place for a quick and tasty lunch especially if you like Mexican street food. Only downside is that the tacos are a little more pricey than what you’d expect.

Went there for lunch. High priced tacos $ 2.49 per taco.
Ordered one beef fajita — dry and no flavor.
Ordered one pastor — GREASY!
Would not go again. Don’t recommend. Should have expected that from a gas station place.

I have become a huge fan of small taco stands. This one is in a C-​Mart convenience store near where I live. The ingredients are fresh and prepared authentically. All breakfast tacos are awesome. I’ve only tried the barbacoa tacos outside of that, and they are also incredible. Prices are very reasonable, but it’s cash only… most of these small stands are. Make sure to bring your patience because the whole operation is 1 lady and she gets pretty busy. She’s very quick though and the food is worth the wait.

Man, their tacos rock. The tortillas are perfectly soft and the ingredients a bit greasy, but this is absolutely pretty good stuff. Love it. I, definitely will come back again.

Arrived at Taco’s Ivan at 9:40AM on a Friday. There were two people ahead of me waiting for their orders. The breakfast menu looked pretty simple and straight forward. Two ingredient Taco’s for $ 1.49. Lunch isn’t served until 11:00, they have pictures over the counter that look pretty impressive.
I was getting an order to go for myself and GF. Decided on papas egg and cheese, and bean egg and cheese for her. Ordered the breakfast burrito for myself which came with egg, cheese, potatoes, beans and chorizo.
Everything here is made to order, and so it took several minutes for my order to be prepared. As it was being prepared there was a slow but steady stream of people coming to pick up phoned in orders, or to place orders.
I admit I wasn’t all that excited given the simplicity of the breakfast menu. I took the order home and we dove in. The food was fantastic!
Tortillas were all fresh made, and the flavors were perfect. The chorizo in the burrito was light and not oily, the potatoes were soft and flavorful as were the beans, all ingredients were perfectly blended together. They were very generous with what appeared to be white jack cheese. The red sauce they provided with the order was amazing. Probably the best home made flour tortillas I have ever had, soft and tender, the way it should be.
We will definitely be going back for more. If simple breakfast items taste this good I can’t wait to try lunch. If they make everything to order I would expect to wait when they are busy.

When my 3 year old daughter said she wanted breakfast tacos for her birthday party, I knew exactly where to get them. I called with less than 24 hour notice and they had 40 tacos ready to go in a pretty little package, complete with salsa for the masses. We’ll be back for you, Ivan…

Tacos were about average.
It would make a more convenient neighborhood option if they were open on both weekend days, took card instead of cash only and offered special menu items more often. Also I didn’t seem to find a call-​in option, nevertheless, standing up in a tiny gas station isle for just two tacos to come out was uncomfortable.

Nope

Super great breakfast tacos in a small stand at the back of a gas station. Austin rocks.

These are great tacos! (note: there is no disclaimer of «for a gas station.») These tacos are the best tacos in the 78 731. El Arroyo, Torchy’s, Zuzu’s, and Taco Shack don’t have the flavor to compare, let alone tortillas.
My new neighbors and I were chatting about places to eat in the neighborhood. They immediately begin to rave about Tacos Ivan’s breakfast tacos, «the best breakfast tacos we have ever had. Ever.» When they explained Ivan’s was in the C-​Mart next to the HEB, I knew exactly the place they were talking about: The place where every breakfast time and lunch time I see around 10 men standing or sitting in the parking lot, holding styrofoam containers as they hungrily and happily devour tacos.
A couple of weeks later, my BF and I walked to Ivan’s a little after 11 in the morning, assuming we will join the masses in blissfully devouring breakfast tacos. Well, then things got complicated: a full menu? Tacos with fajita chicken or beef, barbacoa, el pastor as well as typical breakfast tacos are listed on the left side of the wall above the cubby for Ivan’s. Then, there are other options, such as tortas and flautas. While breakfast tacos are served all day, they cost more after 11am. We ordered fajita beef, fajita chicken, and barbacoa tacos along with flautas. We couldn’t see the kitchen, but we think it might be a two women operation. The woman who took our order, disappeared behind the side wall. A few minutes passed. We browse the convenience store’s selection of beverages. Out came our food and everyone had big smiles.
For six dollars, my flautas were an amazing deal. Sour cream and green salsa are drizzled over the top and then they received a good handful of lettuce and cotija, the best Mexican cheese. The chicken was mild but flavorful and the tortillas were crispy but not greasy. These flautas, six cigar-​sized flautas, were the flautas of my dreams. Honestly, the presentation of those flautas inside that container looked more appealing than any I have received on the plate.
My BF really enjoyed his tacos. I had a bite of the barbacoa and it was not greasy like I expect barbacoa to be. The tortillas were fantastic! Normally, corn tortillas break and crumble while eating. However, these didn’t and they were so pillowy!
We love the location because it is so close to our home, but wouldn’t mind walking further to reach them if they moved to a location with inside seating. Even with no place to sit, nothing beats a small operation run by someone who knows what she is doing.

I was skeptical at first to try tacos from a kitchen in the back of CMart.
The Best Tacos in Austin. Quite a statement, but I won’t go anywhere else for breakfast tacos anymore. Homemade tortillas, red sauce is incredible. I can’t figure out why they are so good, but I won’t go anywhere else.