Taco Bell

As a lifelong Taco Bell fan, I’ve been to franchises all over the country (and even a few abroad), and this is one of my favorite locations. Service is fast and friendly and the portions always seem to be just a little bigger. Kudos to the manager and staff.

This is my first fast food review. Why? Well I usually don’t see the sense. But this crew at THIS Taco Bell are unusually great. Drive thru girl was amazing and nice, and although she had a headache she was very very nice as well as her manager. So I thought I’d shoot them some positive props. Good job!

I have to say that over the past 6 months, this Taco Bell in particular has gone downhill rapidly.
Initially upon first impression today, seeing the newly renovated and updated dining area, I had high hopes that this Taco Bell was aiming higher in their quality of service, but I was poorly disappointed.
My 3 Big Complaints are as follows:
1. Womens restroom. This is a single occupant restroom, of which the door faces directly at the lobby. The door lock is disabled. I am not the first person to discover this inconvenience as seen per other reviews here. I find it downright appalling that in the midst of doing my business, pants down at ankles, the door bursts open for all within view of the dining to see. That is really an invasion of privacy and beyond embarrassing. I feel like there is some kind of law against exploitation of that kind, or indecency laws. I am gonna look into it.
2. 75 cents for a tiny water cup. Now I understand the need to deter non paying people from coming in, hanging out and drinking free water all day, but come on. I bought food. I am a paying customer. Its for the cost of the cup, the cashier tells me. Really?! 75 cents for a tiny cup, thats a lie. 5 cents maybe, if you were getting screwed by your vendor. Im sure Pepsi provides those for free, seeing that they own Taco Bell and you are dispensing their products.
3. Refer to attached photo on this review. My grilled steak soft taco was not in fact grilled steak, but instead was some mystery goo-​like pinkish tinged ground beef. If there is one thing I have learned ordering fast food, always check your order before you leave. This was not even a busy time today. clearly my receipt read GRL STK TACO. The manager was at the cashier when I brought him my discrepency, he did acknowledge the mistake and had them make me the correct item I had ordered. But no attempt to really right the wrong above and beyond that, which other Taco Bells have done in the past by saying they are so sorry and here are some cinnamon twists on the house, or free water would have been a nice gesture.
I will never set foot in this establishment again. Everytime a bit more disappointing than the last. You better believe I will be doing the online in-​house survey on my receipt as well

I wish people would refrain from reviewing fast food like its supposed to be a 5-​star restaurant.
Perhaps my review will be skewed because I’ve ever had a bad experience, so I just can’t give it a 1 or 2. On my most recent visit, the cashier busied herself with drive through orders, but acknowledged me. I smiled and told her I was still looking, and she smiled back while saying «You take your time, here. There’s no rush at all! Just tell me when you’re ready». Now really, how many of you have had an experience like that at an eatery before? OK, probably fairly often, but I challenge you to think back to your last fast food experience… has anyone told you that you can take your time while patiently waiting for you to decide? Its rare!
The tables are never REALLY clean at this establishment. There are specks and crumbs from previous eaters, but that’s a matter of either asking staff to clean it or wiping it with a napkin. Again, its only fast food.
I decided to be a «breakfast defector», as the hipster commercial suggests, and ordered the Bacon Crunchwrap meal, which for $ 5 comes with coffee and two cinnamon balls filled with icing. I decided to make it $ 6.50 and add a hash brown, because I was already at 700 calories. Why not!
I only waited 5 minutes for my meal. When the cashier handed me my coffee (which she guessed 4 creams and 2 sugars would be enough… HA), she was more than happy to give another 2 shots of cream with one extra sugar for good luck. I’m really not into coffee, but when its loaded with sweets I can’t resist!
I will add that during a visit with my boyfriend a few months ago, they ran out of eggs and had to make another batch, so we waited 15 minutes. Then they got his order wrong, and he got an extra order of hasbrowns, his correct order AND the incorrect order.
I’m not going to describe fast food to you. You know what its like, but I’ll go ahead and recommend the BACON Crunchwrap for anyone who hasn’t had it. My boyfriend has joked that its better than… well, you know. Its stuffed with bacon, taco bell sauce, eggs and a hasbrown, and delicious. You don’t have to go to THIS Taco Bell. I just want you to know that this one is A-​OK.

This place does not know when it is open and when it is not. Also – the drive thru is a minimum of 30 minutes. If you drive by and there is not a line for the drive thru, it is because the drive thru is closed. Good luck. I suggest heading a few blocks north to Burgermaster.

After going a few years without a TV, I had grown used to not having to watch commercials (thanks AdBlock). Then, one of my friends gave me her TV set when she moved out of our apartment complex. I’ve been watching the NBA playoffs on the TV recently, and I’ve been re-​introduced to the seductive world of fast food commercials.
The one commercial that really caught my eye was the Taco Bell commercial for the Steak DoubleDilla. I’m a fan of the regular quesadilla, so double the awesome-​ness sounded amazing. I don’t live close to a Taco Bell in Berkeley, so when I visited my girlfriend in Seattle we decided to head to the Taco Bell nearest to her house and grab us some DoubleDillas.
We each ordered the DoubleDilla meal (one chicken and one steak) which came with chips and salsa. However, when we opened the boxes, we saw that they just gave us regular quesadillas. There was definitely not double anything inside of the tortillas. After being so excited to try these, it was super disappointing. I don’t think Taco Bell is at fault for this. I just think that this particular location is probably not very good.

I can’t blame the employees for the place not being run or cleaned properly. The management obviously need to be rotated or removed period.
The bathroom is never properly cleaned and so unsanitary on so many levels.
Syringes in the garbage can? I asked the manager, Curtis to clean the mens bathroom before I used it. The condition was very unsat. Looks like it had not been cleaned for months! Really.
John Connolly

SLOW. I was the third in the drive they and I kid you not it took 25 minutes to get my order. I live five minutes away by car and when I got home, everything was cold and random bites tasted vaguely like cleaning chemicals. One star because zero wasn’t an option.

I go to this Taco Bell because it seems it’s one of the few that can get orders right for the most part. Usually, if I had been inclined before I would have given this Taco Bell four or five stars. But today I was really irritated. I ordered a side of the pepper jack sauce, the girl at the window said what? I said the sauce that is on the cheesy gordita crunch (every time I ask for this they say a different name so I always order this way) she said oh, well um that’s the spicy ranch. I was unsure about this because usually the name doesn’t include ranch, so I confirmed, that’s what’s on the cheesy gordita crunch? I got back yeah it is. So I said okay. Well let me tell you. This is NOT what is on the cheesy gordita crunch. To me this is worse than leaving tomatoes on my taco! I PAID 30 cents for a sauce that isn’t the right one and I did everything I could to make sure I got the right one. Train your f*ing employees and make sure that if they don’t know they ask! Also, the menu clearly calls the sauce a pepper jack sauce, so call it that on your freaking menu! I know this is Taco Bell and I can only expect so much. But it’s pretty easy to figure this one out.

I like this place just fine for drive-​through, they are quick and have never screwed up my order. Nice.
I don’t advise eating inside, as this section of town is rather meth-​head laden, not TB’s fault…

How can you not have Nacho Cheese!!! Went at 10:00 p.m. on a Sunday night. I placed my order, waited 15 minutes in the drive through line. After I made it to the window, I was informed they had no Nacho cheese.

They need a security guard inside just don’t feel safe eating inside.
Drug deals prostration deals in dining room tonight.

It’s really hard to review a fast food place… especially Taco Bell.
Is the food good for you?
Ha.
Is the food super high quality?
Haha.
Is the food going to help you on your road to hittin’ bikini weight by summer?
Hahahahahahahahaha.
But honestly, this Taco Bell is clean, the folks working there are nice and quick, and Taco Bell is delicious. Maybe you call it MSG, maybe you call it deep fried dead baby… maybe you call it nacho cheese… whatever you call it, whatever it is… Taco Bell will always be delicious.
Blissful indulgence, thy name is nacho cheese calupa.
On a side note… wtf is up with the new grilled nacho to go thing… I don’t mean to blow the whistle but I’m not sure changing the shape of the crunchwrap supreme qualifies you to rename the product…
*he said before buying two of them*

I’m quite happy with service here. I like what they have. But I should stay away from it… fire sauce is my friend… and my enemy…

Normally I love Taco Bell and they are a great value, quick, and very consistently good. But the people working at this location were very rude. But there is another one in Ballard and they are very nice with good customer service.

Guh. I’m a sucker for fast food. I know, I know! But hey — a foodie can like crappy food too, right? So while it’s not authentic, Taco Bell serves its purpose and every few months I just want some mediocre food really fast. In fact, I drove through this spot after being stuck in awful traffic and awful weather for over an hour. And I even worked out later that night! So in my head, I totally deserved it.
The drive through guy was super friendly, the food was ready in prob 2 mins and I was back on the road (in more traffic!) to wolf down this meal and pretend like it never happened. But even just writing this makes me kinda wanna go back… Oh Crunchwrap Supreme, I love you!

This taco bell is alright in my book.
The food is consistant unlike the mcdonalds down the road, where I never know if they’re going to put too much ketchup on my burger, not enough seasoning, etc.
The employees are nice and funny, and occasionally over-​excited about working for fast food but that’s not necessarily a bad thing I guess. I’d rather have someone be excited than upset and spitting on my food or something?

I make poor decisions when I’ve been drinking… Taco Bell was my poor decision.
Enough said!

Yeah that’s right… I’m giving Taco Bell FOUR STARS.
Seriously, I love me some Taco Bell. Its cheap and satisfying when I’m craving Americanized Mexican food and I only have $ 5 in my pocket. Their nacho cheese chalupas and value menu rocks my socks!
I get a kick out of talking to some of the people who work here. They always crack jokes and suggest stuff to try off the menu. My last visit here, they told me to get this double decker gordita with grilled chicken. Yeah it totally hit the spot for me.

I started thinking bad thoughts about Taco Bell when the lawsuit was filed stating that their beef had too many fillers to actually be considered beef by law. That lawsuit was since dismissed, and I’m not sure if it had any merit in the first place. Regardless, the beef in Taco Bell has always disgusted me. And I am someone who enjoys fast food. I’ll eat at Arby’s, McDonald’s, Jack in the Box, etc. Don’t really like Wendy’s that much, but I’ll eat there too. I have no beef (heheh) whatsoever with fast food in general.
Anyway, something snapped in me and I just don’t really like Taco Bell anymore. The beef options are gross, the bean options are boring, the quesadilla I could make at home in the microwave if I wanted to. Churros are flavorless. The new burrito with the Cheetos is absolutely disgusting. Even the 2 for a dollar tacos at Jack in the Box, as greasy and questionable as they are, seem appetizing in comparison.
And now it seems like this Taco Bell has gotten rid of the Pizza Hut part of their restaurant. Not that it makes a difference. Whoever decided to merge these two brands should be fired. It makes absolutely no sense to try to offer pizza as fast food, since by definition either the pizza won’t be ready for 10 minutes when you order, or it will be old and stale from sitting under a heat lamp.