Taco Gringo

I’ve eaten here dozens of times over the years and it’s always great. Beef and Chicken tacos, Nachos, Sanchos and burritos. They have plenty of other items to try but for me– why change when you’re happy? Medium sauce has just the right zip without any burn. One big thing for me… they put a good amount of meat in every taco every time. I hate the places that give you a thimble of meat-​not here.

The food here is awful. The place looked disgusting and unclean. I saw a bunch of flys where the food was being made. I ordered the Sancho/​Jr. Nachos Combination plate. It was cold and not tasty. I would not recommend this place at all.

Ok so its not so bad after all.

If I’m getting tacos this is where I go. Friendly staff. Clean place and I can get waffles fries with cheese with the best tacos in town. what’s not to love! Oh and they have slushies need I say more

The Taco Gringo in Jacksonville (near Springfield) is a restaurant I grew up loving, even though it has a few drawbacks (see my exemplary review. No. Honestly, read it). I have stopped at this alternate dimension Taco Gringo on Clocktower Driver twice while passing through Springfield.*
It might be my obvious (read:OBVIOUS) bias towards the Jville location, but I just haven’t been as impressed with the tacos and sanchos I have purchased here. The sanchos especially. They are noticeably smaller! The only good thing about sanchos in the first place is that they are a huge soft taco. That’s it. When they are smaller they are far less enticing.
However, it IS still Taco Gringo – this is about the best cheap Mexican food you can buy in Central Illinois.
*It is important to note that I have gone through the drive-​thru every time I have eaten at this location. Eating inside might be amazing. Heck, there might be opulent couches, bottle service, and fountains that spew money and the vivid dreams of majectic orcas. I’d like that. If I were a betting man (which I’m betting I’m not), it is more likely that there are plastic orange benches and tacky Spanish décor.

I’m pretty sure when you order a taco here, they just run down to the local grocery store and grab one of those Ortega taco kits. That being said, it was a well-​assembled Ortega taco kit. The chicken deluxe taco was very… taco-​y. Crunchy shell, not soggy, a-​ok chicken and a good balance of the various ingredients.
I would have given three stars, if it hadn’t been for the most god-​awful excuse for a tamale I have ever been so unfortunate as to experience. It was corn mush wrapped in soggy wax paper with a meatish center. Shameful.
I take what I said about the three stars back. I just remembered the enchilada. It would have qualified as «barely acceptable,» had part of their seasoning process not included microwaving it on a styrofoam tray, which melted together with the cheese and enchilada sauce to form a sort of toxic mexi-​styro-​sludge. Yuck.
This place is completely unremarkable. The friendly service is their saving grace. My search for tasty tacos in Springfield continues…

This is just one of those places that I have to visit when I’m in town. For Springfield and outside of xochimilco and cancun this is the only decent semi Mexican food you will find. It will beat down Taco Bell any day.

Sanchos the great Mexican American fast food! I started eating at Taco Gringo when I was highschool 1973 and still going strong!
My Mexican daughter in law hates it! The ground meat she says is like dog food. Well for fast food its not bad!

I have been eating Taco Gringo since I was a little girl. It has always rocked! I agree with Stuart the definition of Sancho is correct. However I love em! No matter what you call em! It is a Gringo (White guy) version of mexican food. It is however the best gringo mexican in town! So I do give the gringo a 5 star fast food rating. I will have a sancho deluxe and a mexican apple pie thanX!

I’ll give this place five stars if they can make my nachos so they dont stick to the styrofoam container. Sancho is ok. Tacos are good. Styrofoam nachos? Not so much

No one will ever give Taco Gringo five stars. I myself am a huge fan, but can fast food even receive a five star review? Better yet, can faux Mexican achieve that culinary merit? As the name implies, it is some gringo-​ass Mexican food. My favorite is the Aztec meal, which comes with a sancho. At the Gringo, a sancho is basically a beanless burrito with lettuce, ground beef, cheese, and the signature «Gringo» sauce (some out of towners that were visiting thought it was spicy ketchup.) In my current residence of Long Beach, CA, a sancho is a guy who F’s someone else’s old lady. Feel free to reference some Sublime if you want additional proof. Whenever I come back to town, it is a high priority on my guilty pleasures list. Just be sure to never order anything with chicken. I believe it comes from a can and has a close semblence to tuna.