Taco Burrito King

First time here and they were taking all the signage off because they had JUST raised the prices of their daily specials. My friend and I both ordered the daily special — junior burritos.
The special indicated it was just a burrito and a drink. Although I asked my friend right in front of the girl taking our order, wait, it doesn’t come with any sides? It’s just the burrito? We weren’t sure and the cashier didn’t speak up, so I requested a side of rice with mine. She could have said at any point, oh it comes with rice, so guess what? I got my burrito on a plate with two sides! Rice and beans, AND a side of rice. Sigh. Guess that’s what I get for not having dined here before.
Junior burrito is still quite large, I couldn’t finish it… don’t even want to know what their regular sized burrito looks like. Meal also comes with your choice of fountain beverage or horchata… YUM.
Another thing I didn’t know from not having been there before, and didn’t find out until we had finished… they’ve got salsa — green and red — but it’s hiding in the coke fridge. Good place for it.
If they had been more informative, I would have probably given them 4 starts, because for the location, it’s a pretty reasonably priced place with solid portion sizes.

If Taco Bell isn’t gross enough for you, try this place. Even in the realm of shitty Mexican places that are good when drunk, this would be the bottom of the barrel.
If I were a traveling circus animal, this food would perhaps be satisfying slop. That’s what I feel like after eating it at least.
To be fair, I’ve only had burritos here. — 3 times– all very bad. The tacos look reasonably edible. You can taste that the quality of the ingredients is woeful — everything oversalted.
I basically write this only to remind myself to never come here again.
1 star for great location!

This place sucks. They skimp on the meat portions for their «lunch specials» relative to if you just buy the burrito by itself. Also don’t forget to remind them that your lunch special comes with a fountain drink, because they will intentionally let you go without getting what you paid for.

I like the food. Good price for the portions. Extra busy at lunch time. Use the app to pre-​order to avoid the wait. Seating if difficult during lunch. I had vegetarian nachos my first visit… huge! Pork tamales second visit. Pork tamales are sweet, didn’t like them too much. This place has potential.

Work next door and this place has become mine and coworkers lunch time spot at least once a week. Fast and friendly service everything. Check out their daily specials too. Great deal!

IMHO a burrito is something like a burger or a pizza — people just generally like them so much it’s very hard to get wrong. Unfortunately this place is quite the winner.
Basically it was around noon where almost every good lunch place in the loop has a giant line. I wanted a burrito but Chipotle is probably going to be a 30 min wait. This place barely had a line (I should have known this is a red flag) so I decided to give it a try.
I got a King burrito with steak. The size was not as giant as the name would have suggested, but definitely ample for just one meal. I got it in just a few minutes too.
Then it came the torturous actually eating it part. This burrito is just SO BLAND! There’s barely any texture nor flavor to it, that I felt like chewing on boiled down card board. About ¹⁄₃ through it I was already wishing the burrito was actually smaller… each bite was a torment and during the entire time I was thinking about how my life would have been so much better if I just went to Chipotle. I ended up tossing half of it even though I hate wasting food… it was really that bad.
They only got 2 stars instead of 1 I did get a decent amount food without having to wait during lunch hour. If only it was edible enough for me to finish the whole thing.

Taco burrito king has a daily special, they have two different size burritos. I get the junior vegetarian burrito, it’s fill with grilled vegetables, cheese, and sour cream. The special comes with a drink, beans and rice, the cost is around eight dollars.

Average semi-​fast food type Mexican spot. I hadn’t been to TBK in years after stopping in one of their north side locations years ago. I recall being underwhelmed with the food so I simply never returned.
The other day I had a hankering for some Mexican food so I decided to give TBK another shot. I walked in shortly after the lunch rush and was served promptly. I ordered a taco lunch special with consisted of two tacos rice and beans.
The food was well proportioned, hot and fresh. It was tasty but I wasn’t blown away. it’s average Mexican food at best. The one thing I must say is that the refried beans were WAY too salty. I’m talking high blood pressure inducing levels of sodium. Other than that I’d say the food was decent. And for $ 7 the price isn’t too bad either.
The young woman who took my order was pleasant as well. The one thing I didn’t like was the fact that the cook prepared my food without gloves. How do I know that he washed his hands? Even if I assume that he had washed his hands I’d still would’ve preferred that he wore gloves. Not wearing gloves is just unsanitary to me.
Overall, I’d say this TBK location is decent.

The food was decent. I placed an order over the phone for pick up hoping to avoid the wait. Well apparently fish tacos sound just like steak tacos, and that’s what was waiting for me when I got there to pick up my order. The guy who took the order was making remarks about how I must have ordered the wrong thing the whole time I waited for my food. If you go, make sure you triple check that they got your order right if you are on a time crunch.

It’s not one of tha best taco spots I have been to but had to eat something to get threw tha day.

That cuts it. Been to this place probably a dozen times for lunch and waited, and waited, and waited for my order. Today, I waited 20 minutes for a burrito. No «Sorry for the wait,» no, «appreciate your patience.» So let’s get on with the food — the burrito el pastor was oozing with sour cream — a sloppy, gooey, dripping mess. Some burritos still score with me on this, but not this place. Taste was average at best.
There are plenty of other options nearby. Burrito Beach surpasses it by a mile and I’d even take the bland, boring and overpriced Qudoba across the street.
When we left, there were at least 15 people waiting for their order.

Can we say Health Department!!! I have visited this place several times and an as everyone else says it’s OK… Greek town by far is the best location. At this location, they «forget» a lot, they give you recooked fries, and the staff (excluding the cooks) are not at all friendliest.
Here is why I will never return…
The person working the counter NEVER washes their hands. Not only do they handle a customer transactions but they expedite (hand out the food), cook fries and wrap food. In most places this is not uncommon; however any time you exit the establishment to chase down someone (because you gave them the wrong order) and come back in and work as if nothing happened… can we say gross. The person who took the wrong order returned with the food, she removed it from the bag examined the food and placed it in a new bag.
Ummm yes, she did not replace the food that she erroneously gave out!!! Nasty! There is no way I would have accepted that.
Lastly, In the back ground, one of the other workers who was handling garbage decided to help in the kitchen… Yup… no hand washing.

The food is usually descent but on my last visit, they forgot to give me sauce with my tacos so I was disappointed. Even worse I ordered a order of chips and salsa and the salsa was spoiled. I could smell the spolidness thru the bag so im pretty sure they had to smell it while bagging up my order. I emailed their contact and never received a response. Guess i wont be going back

Chicken taco salad with nacho cheese as a topping– who does that? Employees seemed bothered that I was ordering my food, Wait! It is your job to take my order right? Do it! Give my change and no tip for you! Never going back

OK, either things changed since my last review or else I was seriously misguided the first time and I apologize.
I just made my coworker promise that she will never allow me to go back here. Had a quick lunch and I feel horrible. I’d let it slide, but this is the fourth or fifth time this has happened.
The food is cheap and portions are huge, so if you’ve got an iron stomach and no self-​respect, go hog wild, compadre.

If you add this to the list of places you will never-​ever eat at again, shouldn’t it be 1-​star? But service was fast and prices are cheap and portions are huge. But does that even matter if the food is just.not.good? This is where the ½ star would help. This place is 1.5 stars.
Three of us came her for lunch, arrived just before noon. The place was more than ½ full, and within 15 minutes, all seats were taken. So, they do a good business. I equate it to portion size and price.
I had the jr. burrito, my friend had the super king burrito, and the other got a taco plate. The taco plate looked the best, but none of it tasted very good. It wasn’t that it was just very American food, it just seem very low-​quality food.
We did get a side of guac and salsa and chips. The salsa was just a liquid, no chunks of anything in it. The guac was a weird color green and a bit watery, like they mixed in something to stretch the quantity of the avocado, but absolutely no flavor.
I cannot recommend this place. I think it is worse than «Meh. I’ve experienced better.». But there must be something that draws the crowds in, the place was packed.

Blech. I always say that there are two types of Mexican restaurants: The Americanized ones, and the authentic ones. Both are great, depending on what you’re looking for in that meal. I need to add a category: Ones that use yellow cheese sauce. Ew. Really. My taco salad was a seriously unappetizing bland soup of lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and cheese sauce. It’s a good thing I had chicken in there because it was the only solid ingredient. Yuck.

This location caters to businesses just outside of the financial district. It’s fast and relatively cheap, in comparison to all the choices/​competitors in the area. The steak tacos are solid. The seasoning of the meat is relatively mild. The salsa they have on stock gives the taco’s a bit of a bite.

Food is very average…
Ordered Junior chicken burrito. nothing special about it. I was planning to go to Chicken planet next door, but there were just too many people waiting in line.
Price is ok. $ 5 for a small burrito, $ 7 for a big one.
Service is fast here. I came around 1:15 on weekdays and got my food in 3mins.

So the other day work was not going too hot. Not going too hot to the extent that by 11:45 I was ready for an anger filled lunch. I had never tried Taco Burrito King but heard there was a giant burrito here and that it was super greasy. It sounded like exactly what I was feeling, actually.
I went in and placed my order for a super king burrito and there was not so much as a blink from the staff about that. «Must not be too big,» I think. Wrong, but more on that in a bit.
The couple of stars knocked off are for two things, one is that service can be fickle. There doesn’t seem to be an order in which they address the, well, orders. Sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes you get served before those who have been waiting longer. It kind of seems like the luck of the draw. The other is that TBK always seems to leave you feeling a little… not good. Putting it into your regular rotation could put you out of work longer in the afternoon than you’d like.
When I did finally get my burrito, It was the size and weight of an infant, I’d say. I’m not lying, I had to cradle this thing on my way back to work. Even though I was in awe of the size of this thing, I was still angry and ready to eat the heck out of it.
Well, an hour and a half later I am much calmer and instead having to admit defeat to the beast that is the Super King Burrito. I didn’t even want to save it at this point anymore because I couldn’t quite bear the thought of having to meet this nemesis which annihilates both hunger and, surprisingly, feelings of blind rage.
I’ve gone back plenty of times since that first, always when I’m ravenously hungry, however. You can’t beat the amount of food you get here for the price when in the Loop.