Taco Time

This is one the nicest taco times around, pretty swank for a place with $ 2 tacos. I put taco time in the fast faux Mexican category like Qdoba and Chipotle.
But on the flip side taco time is a much better value — bigger selection, lower prices, and quality food. My go-​tos are the white chicken chili and beef Baja taco.
I really love the fact they compost almost everything and source locally. Kudos to taco time for making a quick meal greener and better for our community.
I’ve seen a number of complaints about wrong orders, but I’ve eaten here a bunch without any errors.
So why four stars? Well, I find the food a bit bland without the hot sauce. They could stand to better season the meats.

The food tasted good and the order was correct, but I have ever to take a star off for not carrying the stuffed Mexi-​fries and another star off for not immediately offering to fill the drink at the drive through machine when the one in the front failed.

Alright, first off, we’re big fans of Taco Time. I understand it’s not everyone’s jam, but it definitely has a place in our hearts. Something about growing up eating those crispy mexi-​fries. Our fast food chain guilty pleasure!
This particular location deserves five stars, it’s fairly recently built, the décor is nice and modern, and it’s just overall clean. Food and service is as you come to expect from Taco Time in the PNW. The two items we go back and forth on with each visit are the crisp beef tacos and the fish soft tacos, can’t go wrong with either of those. Without question however, there will undoubtedly be two large mexi fries boxes on the table (with an embarrassing 10 hot sauce containers).
If you’re a Taco Time lover like us, this is an awesome location! If you’ve never been, then you should check it out! If you’re not a fan, then I guess to each their own.
My only gripe is that there isn’t a Taco Time closer to us, but maybe that’s a good thing!

Absolutely love this location. I’ve been in only a few times but each Time I have been greeted by wonderful employees, especially Devin and Richard. These two always put a smile on my face with their friendly customer service. This location also includes a fire place and outdoor seating. Food will always be brought out in a timely manner. Don’t pass up an opportunity to stop by. You won’t be disappointed

I always get such wonderful service at the drive thru. They are always courteous and friendly; however; my order is never correct. Tonight, I got home to discover a beef taco in my order!!! I ordered bean because I do not eat red meat. Now, after not having lunch today, I have no dinner!
Disappointing! Please, work on making sure orders are correct! Thank you for your great customer service.

I am done with this place. It’s not that cheap and every time I have had my order messed. EVERY TIME. I really don’t think it is all that hard to hold the tomato and lettuce. I order a taco with no lettuce or tomato that is it. I got a boat load of lettuce that I peeled off because I didn’t have time to deal with nor would I be so nice about it. I peeled off all the lettuce and the kid that took my order saw my giant pile, did nothing about it. no sorry, no nothing, just looked at the big pile and left. People don’t order things with lettuce because it adds flavor or anything, onions are what people order and pick out for flavor. Really just confused at how hard it is to make a taco. Not coming back.

Opening Tuesday Dec 1^st. CLEARLY non of them were ready to open. The guy didn’t know how to get on the register… ordered baja fish tacos took 20min!!? What? Oh and they forgot the sauce I paid for, no napkins. And both tacos look like they came from the trash! Not happy, they need to get their S*** together.

By far the best Taco Time I’ve been into. I just have to say the tater tots /​mexi fries we’re cooked PERFECT! I can’t explain it, they were perfect on the outside and inside. Better than any other location I’ve been to. As for everthing else it was great, just like the other locations. The restaurant was clean and the service was excellent.

Fantastic service. Great food. Usually little to no line. I prefer this place now over chipotle.
Beautiful interior/​exterior design. Nice going guys. I come here almost every day.
My favorite is cilantro lime salad.

Poor skill level (nobody knows how to use the register to order a side of onions), dangerous food handling (salad contaminated with chicken meat when it was ordered meatless, small bits of chicken and other things like they work sloppy), when they screwed up my order and I was waiting at the drive-​thru window for them to ask what I wanted they looked at me several times with puzzled-​seeming expressions but took their sweet time to get back to me, poor quality ingredients (brown, nasty lettuce, for example), staff are too privileged to care what you want (bored and annoyed to my face that I was bugging them to sell me food): a total failure. No stars.

Very nice Taco Time. The food tastes great, and the building (both interior and exterior) is modern and stylish.
Great landscaping (using compost sourced from TT customers); nice LCD menus; elegant restroom and water fountain. I think this is the nicest TT I’ve seen.

Allows dogs in the dining area. Not sanitary and not healthy. One of my kids is allergic to some dogs. As a dog owner myself, I would not subject others to my dog sitting on the benches and chairs. Employees did not seem to care at all, even commented on how cute the dog was. I wonder if the employee even knows Taco Times policies.

Food was good, and the drive-​thru service was prompt.
It would be really great if the bag contained what I ordered and paid for (which it usually does).

This is the best Taco Time I have ever been to.
I usually hate using the drive thru, but I actually enjoy it here. They are always fast and polite. The staff is quick to go the extra mile. They are always friendly. They offer you sauce before you go too! You never have to ask. I have never had an incorrect order here either. My orders are always fresh and not leaking all over the bag.
Way better than Gilman… I will drive farther just to go to this Taco Time.

Man, a fast food taco place I can really get behind.
Everything is fresh, the restaurant is eco-​friendly, and the food is delicious. Y’all are lucky to have this place!
I got the crunchy tacos with chicken and it was great. I think everything you get will be great, so just go get everything.

Worst experience ever with a fast food restaurant. If I could I would give it zero stars. I ordered a full lunch to take with me to a place of work where I cannot break free if something were to happen or needed anything. What they gave me instead of my meal was 2 children’s meals. I called and talked to the acting manager named Nemo (Fish jokes aside) and he had to be one of the most unhelpful, short, uncaring managers I’ve ever had to talk to. They must really be hurting for help if they put him into this position. Basically he said sorry in a canned voice void of personality and just wanted my number and name and said next time you’re in you can order the same thing no charge. He didn’t really care that they had messed up the order so badly! Sitting at my place of work eyeing the three day old stale donuts LOL

My hubby went through the drive thru and we had a fairly large order. Well it happened. Yup… Something was forgotten. Our 3 orders of Churros. After dinner I drove by and went inside and was instantly met with a warm smile and a wonderful cashier who quickly apologized and put in 3 fresh ones. She made sure everything else in our order was great and apologized for the inconvenience.
How I wish every business had this good of customer service.

Taco time fish tacos, Where have you been all my life? I tried you for the first time a month ago and now I can’t get you off my mind.
The only negative about this location is that getting in and out of it is a bit painful when it is busy and the intersection is backed up

Disclaimer: I am a longtime fan of Taco Time NW, so this review starts off a little biased. But, in my defense, this is the best location I have visited.
The layout of this new taco time is great. Taking their brand from the limbo of quick serve restaurants (this is what they call themselves– not fast food, folks!) they have differentiated themselves very well with a spacious interior with a thoughtful layout that I daresay is tastefully done. There are gobs of windows, a fireplace, and even outdoor seating. This ain’t the southwestern-​esque tex-​mex joint of my childhood. They have a sign talking about their design trying to reflect NW farmers markets and the like, and I think they have done a good job of both honoring local culture and making an upscale experience for the price range.
Anyway… The food itself is why I come to Taco Time, so lets blab about that. I am a creature of habit and so for over a decade I only ordered chicken soft tacos, so for the most part I will simply say that the consistently fresh ingredients make the (probably) inauthentic taco taste uniquely savory and worth coming back for. I recently sampled one of their fish tacos and I was shocked to discover that it tasted like a taco I had from a stall in Mexico itself. Very good, but very closer than the border. Whenever they have sweet potato tots I yam all sorts of up in that bidness, they seriously need to have them year round. Please?
Taco Time has also been rolling out their fandangled new soda machines which claim to have over 100 flavor combonations. All I know is I finally can get some vanilla coke again. Good job all around, Taco Time NW. Now if only the rest the franchise regions could follow suit.

I liked it!!!
This is my first time at Taco Time ever and the experience was great!
This new taco time in Issaquah is across from the Chevron gas station near Costco /​Fedex.
I was expecting the service might be kinda slow, because they are new and it’s lunch hour. And it was not slow at all.
There was about 5 customer in front of us when we walked in. I like how they have LCD screen on the wall that you can easier going over the menu while waiting in line.
Their service was very fast, we didn’t wait more than 5 min.
Once I get to the cashier, the lady was very professional and fast. Answered the question I had. We were told to the food will bring to us, and the food get to us right after we got our drink and sat down.
I ordered #3, Chicken Soft Taco Meal, which comes with a side order and a drink. I had Maxi Fries with my order.
I like the chicken soft taco, the flavor was good and portion was nice as well.
The lady even came by and took our trays when we finish eating.
Overall experience was great! Fast speed, good food, good service and its clean.
This is going to be one of my new fav spot!