Taco Bell

This is the best Taco Bell location I have ever been to. It seems like others share the same opinion, as it was pretty full the two times I’ve been there. The staff was super nice, the food was well sauced, and the sauce packets were plentiful. Some of the staff even came to our table and asked us how our meal was and if we needed anything! Stopping at this particular Taco Bell on our way through Colorado ended up being a real treat. THANK YOU!

This isn’t really a review of this particular Taco Bell — it’s fine as far as Taco Bells go — it’s really a review of their new «Cantina Style» tacos. Here in Grand Junction I think El Tapatio makes a really high quality taco, I just think at three dollars each they’re a little expensive.
Taco Bell’s new tacos are cheap, they start at $ 1.50 each and go down in price if you order more than one. I ordered two carnitas tacos and it came out to $ 2.79 plus tax. They were made right before my eyes and wrapped in foil, just like roach coach tacos. Nice touch. The first thing that struck me is that there’s something odd about the corn tortillas they’re using. You can tell they’re corn tortillas, but they don’t taste like any corn tortilla I’ve ever eaten. They have a very bland almost doughy quality to them. The filling was better than the wrapper but not great. The three main flavors — pork, onion and cilantro — were muted and didn’t taste fresh. I was also disappointed that TB didn’t debut their new version of taco sauce in a to-​go packet. I guess they’re meeting a price point by keeping the amount of filling on the low side. Real cantina style tacos are bursting with filling allowing you to make two tacos from one order by splitting the filling between the two tortillas. I did something similar with my Taco Bell tacos, I simply didn’t eat the second tortilla, which is something I recommend to everybody.
You can’t fault Taco Bell for jumping on the street food fad, I just think freshness is so important in simple dishes like this that their corporate, semi-​truck delivered version can’t hope to compete with the real thing. But if you ask for extra sauce — they can add it when they’re assembling it — and trash the bottom tortilla you have a decent little $ 1.50 snack if you can’t find the real thing nearby. I can see going for a sack of these when stuck on the Interstate. Especially if they could squeeze some decent taco sauce into those packets that are so popular with the TB crowd.