Taco Shack

Absolutely terrible. Very cheap, low quality food. I don’t understand how this place is still open.

On my way home I was planning to go to a sit down Mexican restaurant close to home. Categorically bad decision, immediately after eating, regretting my choice to stop here for the first time instead. When an uninspired, bland, and unapologetically bad meal learns to speak, its first words are to thank this place for making it look good. Chicken Burrito, likely canned chicken, mainly refried beans in a cold tortilla. Nothing on top, no cheese, no sauce. Beef soft tacos, bland beef with a conservative pinch of lettuce and cheese also in cold tortillas. Nearly $ 9, thought I was overcharged noticing the receipt in the car but wasn’t worth it to go back in. If you like authentic Mexican food, If you like Tex-​Mex, If you like taco bell, if you like tortillas, avoid this place.

The burrito salad and the cheese dip are the best. I love the cheese dip with a squirt of their tasty hot sauce. They are also generous with the chips. Their six pack of tacos are a good deal. My only complaint is the limited seating. Very pleasant experience if you get a good seat.

Very nice employees. You could easily make better food at home. Super basic. Chicken is canned:(

This is a case where i wish i could give 2.5 stars. There’s nothing bad, per se, about taco shack. But… there’s nothing there that anyone with any amount of cooking skill can’t make just as well on family taco night. There’s just no reason to go there, other than laziness. If you live in a really crappy apartment, or you’re a student stuck in the dorms where you don’t have access to a kitchen, then sure. But if you’ve got a decent kitchen, you can make any and all of their dishes just as well at home.
BUT… This could be a four star review, if Taco Shack made one of two changes to their business model.
Look, i’m not going to Taco Shack for dinner. If i want to eat that kind of taco, i’ll make it myself. But there is most certainly a time when i want that kind of taco, but there’s no way in hell i’m making it myself. 2:30am on a saturday morning. Taco Shack is near perfect drunk food. Its filling and cheap, a bit greasy, and exactly the sort of thing you want after a night of hard drinking. If Taco Shack were open late night for the post bar crowd, it would stand as an excellent local alternative to Taco Bell.
The other thing they could do is sell breakfast. While cooking in Austin for a couple years, i worked at a taco joint. The go to breakfast in Austin is the breakfast taco. The breakfast taco is a flour tortilla with scrambled eggs, cheese, and bacon, chorizo, breakfast sausage, or potatoes (or a combination thereof). Add a bit of salsa, and you’ve got a cheap, easily portable breakfast. Taco Shack is in a perfect position to do this. Fayetteville has zero quick breakfast options, beyond donuts and McDonalds. If Taco Shack’s people came in at six and spent an hour busting out a few dozen each of bacon, sausage, and potato breakfast tacos, wrapped em up in foil, and put them on a cart (with a cooler of bottled water and oj), they could roll right up to the Razorback Transit bus stop and have a captive audience of hungry students. Sell tacos for a $ 1.50 or $ 2 a throw, and you’ve suddenly expanded your client base and made some money at the same time. Plus, I could get a damn breakfast taco in this town…