Mighty Taco

The chicken tacos are delicious! The t-​shirts are way cool. Service is excellent even late.

It is Mighty Taco!

If you’re looking for something quick and easy to eat, Mighty Taco is the place to go! If you’re looking for something healthy, I wouldn’t suggest this place. You can see the grease drip out from your taco. Prepare to be hugging the toilet after eating at MT.

This location is consistently inconsistent with other locations. My order never comes out the same twice. The food is barely hot.

I don’t go for the fine mexican cuisine.
I go for the nostalgia factor. Lunch with friends when we worked retail in high school. Late night stops after you left the bar. Going through the drive through that one night after your date went badly and you ate at that awful restaurant.
it’s the guilty pleasure. You grab your mighty, your loganberry and you feel like you got a lot for your money. You eat it once a year or less, when you travel home and bond with family over some story that happened at that location, or laugh at that girl who’s your sister’s friends sister who did one of their commercials once.
Ah… memories and tacos.

Usually, Mighty Taco is the same no matter the location. That is not the case here! I’ve been to numerous Mighty Taco locations before but this one was lackluster.
I ordered a mighty taco and a chicken fajita. The taco was alright, but the sour cream I asked for was all in one end of it. The chicken fajita I didn’t even finish. The chicken had a grayish color and was DISGUSTING.
I’ll stick to the locations that get it right next time!

Murky Taco, more like.
As in, it’s murky and unclear whether it will make you puke, or go right through you — and whether the food will be hot, lukewarm, or cold.
Personal Experience: I’ve only been to this one twice. When I go to see the Bills with my drunk roomies and friends, they usually want this or something like it. We generally go to the one by my house or by theirs, but sometimes we hit this one up since it’s not far from El Estadio. And it’s as bad as all the other ones. I try not to eat here.
*Both* times I ate here (and one of them was literally 5 years ago), it tasted like they had been in the fridge and not heated properly. That made it even worse. Ew.
For real tacos, go to Albion and try Lorenzo’s. Trust me. Only open on Fri and Sat.
Chain info: There are lots of Buffalonians that know food, but those that tell you «if you are only in Buffalo one day, try Mighty Taco», or say «WNY has great food, for example, Mighty Taco», are not among them. They are what is affectionately known as delusional, and we would never be caught dead in the vicinity of Mighty Taco.
I once heard someone on Unilocal describe fans of Mighty Taco as suffering from the food version of Stockholm Syndrome. That would be hilariously funny if it wasn’t so regrettably true. Every location of MT is busier than every local Buffalonian food joint I have ever reviewed, and also busier than most other fast food outlets too. That last point is not a bad thing since I don’t like national chains anyway, but the former is a tragedy.
Buffalo DOES have some good Buffalo Tacos, in fact some amazing ones which have nothing to do with Mexican food, usually served by local Pizza/​Wing joints or even bars… but Mighty Taco is one step below Taco Bell.
Did you hear me? I said one step below Taco Bell. Yes. I know that seems impossible. Like a contradiction in terms. An oxymoron. But it’s true. I thought Taco Bell was the worst food on earth. Until I tried Mighty Taco. It is just… so… bad. Please, please, please stop associating this place with Buffalo. Buffalo has the best food of any small city in the USA… but Mighty Taco, along with Anchor Bar and Duff’s… is one big local embarrassment. The less famous places will rock your world. Read about some of them in my reviews :)
Mighty Taco, get out of my face.

Being from Buffalo I, like almost everyone, am a HUGE fan of mighty taco. Food is good, inexpensive, and given to you VERY quickly. Im very likely to run into old friends there. When ever I go back and visit it’s the first place I eat at. A huge plus is that they accept plastic now. They were cash only for so long. What I do not like is how they always stuff so much ice in your cup, theres no guarentee your empanada will be crispy, and once in a while the peppers and onions are burned. If you’ve never eaten there I recommend a few mighty tacos, loganberry, and a cherry empanada. Make sure you read the paper on the tray as they change the cartoon often.

Oh, Boston friends. I have a dirty little confession to make to all of you. Despite not having lived in the Buffalo area since 2004; I still wake up semi-​regularly in a heated frenzy of mad, mad lust for a super mighty — medium with sour cream, and a loganberry. Then I’m forced to curl into a fetal position and rock myself back to sleep, unsatisfied because there are no Mighty Tacos out here. It’s a sad state of affairs.
As long distance relationships go — I’ve never gotten less from being in one, but I’ve never stayed more faithful either. Mighty Taco has no real competition. Taco Bell doesn’t even exist in the same universe and when I’m on the left coast Del Taco comes a bit closer, but it’s still not in the same planetary system. The fact of the matter is that nothing compares to my hometown’s most beloved fast food taco chain. When I get picked up at the Buffalo airport, the first question that I am asked is always; «Which Mighty do you want to stop at on the way home?»
It doesn’t matter who is picking me up. They know. So do yourself a favor, and the next time you have reason to be in the greater Buffalo area find any one of their 18 locations. I’m reviewing this one because it’s where my love for them began, back when I was a 90 pound high school girl who never thought twice about her own ability to demolish a ½ pound burrito miracle called El Nino.
PS: Boston friends, my birthday is two short months away, and mighty taco now ships their burritos.
Ahem. Sorry.
PPS: Dear Mighty Taco; there’s a Wegman’s coming to Massachusetts soon — it seems that this is where all the cool kids from Buffalo come, don’t you want to come play too?
Okay, didn’t think so. *Sigh* Until next time then…

Loganberry HAS returned!