Taco Boy Restaurant

Good service. Fast. Nice clean restaurant. And I really like the food!
Chicken is great. Beef tip nachos were awesome.
I really love the rice!
Very reasonable prices too!

The food here is reasonably priced, after all this is a college town. The mini wet burrito is plenty big and very good. Their tacos are delicious as well as their tamales. I highly recommend this place. They are very quick to prepare the food, and carry out is also an option.

Great cheap tacos from homemade recipes. Regarding the reviews that compare it to Taco Bell, I question your culinary exposure. Maybe you have been raised on Taco Bell and consider that food, but to knock other people and tell them they don’t know what good food is when you are eating Taco Bell’s 35% meat should demonstrate your culinary expertise; or that the «meat tastes funny» maybe because its real, and not oats and soy? Taco Boy makes cheap, great food. They have a menu different from the other taco chains (thankfully) so don’t expect the same. It is not authentic Mexican food; it is the American version. I have had just about one of everything on the menu, and I enjoyed everything so far. It is a bargain for good food. Try it on one of their deal days (Mondays and Wednesdays) where many items (tacos, tostadas, small drinks, beans, rice, chips, and cinnamon snaps) are $ 1.05.

Anyone who has has written a positive review for Taco Boy either 1) was drunk as hell when they went there, or 2) has no idea what decent, or even MEDIOCRE mexican food is.
I’ve been almost everywhere in Mt Pleasant, but I had sort of forgotten about Taco Boy. The girlfriend and I finally decided to head there. We walk into basically an empty knock off of Taco Bell. Their menu, which basically doesn’t explain anything, was tough to work through and pretty tough to figure out what we wanted. Just no explanation of what was what or what things came with.
Finally, I ordered the super wet burrito. Ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and sauce over the top. What I ended up with was probably the worst thing I’ve ever had. Ground beef was completely under-​seasoned — it had literally no flavor. Anddd, that’s about it, since the whole thing is based on the beef. Of course the lettuce and tomatoes and onions had nothing wrong with them — they’re raw vegetables! The burrito is covered in some sort of canned tasting enchilada sauce, and the burrito was clearly microwaved. Once I got towards the center, it was hardly warm.
My girlfriend ordered some sort of combo meal that came with a taco, tostada, and beans. What came out literally looked like wet cat food on a plate. The refried beans, clearly right out of a can. Again, the beef was bland and the cheese looked disgusting.
So, a super wet burrito, a nasty combo, and a regular pop for nearly $ 17.00!!! I could have gotten just as much, if not more food, and BETTER food at Taco Bell. I will never, ever come back to this place. The fact that they’re still in business and people go here is sad. Oh, and one other thing before I end my review — I understand this is supposed to be a «locally» owned version of mexican fast food, but come on! What kind of mexican places doesn’t have sour cream!!! No tubs of it, no sides of it — what I got was a plastic packet of it that you would get in the Middle School cafeteria. Anddddd they charged $ 0.35/packet. Unbelievably disappointing.

Taco Boy is inexpensive, fresh «fast food,» but the recipes are homemade. The food is very good and the portion size is great. The taco meat is ground beef that is seasoned and cooked daily. The «green» meat is diced pork that is mixed with green chili sauce. The «red» meat is diced steak with a brown gravy sauce. The refried beans are cooked from scratch, starting with dried beans. And contrary to an earlier review, the enchilada sauce is not canned. It begins with tomato sauce and is prepared in the kitchen! The hot sauce is made from scratch, but the mild is in packets. I can state these facts as a former employee.
The prices are great — especially the Wednesday deals, and they have daily specials too.
There are many options for vegetarians and the chicken meat is a healthy option. It is marinated with peppers and onions. The food is generally not greasy (of course there is a little from the meats and cheese).
As for the styrofoam plates, as I said, it’s fast food. If you are looking for a quick bite, don’t miss out. The owner is in the process of getting approval for a drive-​thru. If you didn’t like the item you ordered, try one more time and get something else. At least give it a chance. It’s way better than the chain taco fast food; at least it’s homemade.

On the advice of a local, I decided to stop here for dinner when I was in town. It was a Saturday and they had a «Saturday Wet Burrito Special» so that’s what I ordered. The ground beef inside the burrito had a weird texture and tasted like it was hardly seasoned. I was grateful for the onions inside because they were the only real flavor going on here. The burrito was ginormous but mediocre. The sauce they smother it in was canned enchilada sauce and actually had a sugary flavor to it. Yuck-​o! Should have gone to Taco Bell instead of Taco Boy!

We ordered take out here on our way back from the lake. I ordered the chicken quesadilla with spicy green sauce… what a mistake! I was expecting a crispy flour tortilla with a nice melted cheese and chunks of chicken with some sort of green spicy sauce (figure it would be the green tamatillo sauce). What I got was a warm flour tortilla, soft, filled with bland cheese and somewhere swimming in that mess was a few pieces of chicken. Nothing else. Maybe it was a cheese burrito? Either way, couldn’t eat it after 2 bites. My wife liked the hard shell beef tacos though. She said they were flavorful and fresh.

I found the food to be utterly disgusting and vomit inducing. When ordering nachos be aware that off-​brand tortilla chips are plucked from a plastic bag and discarded on a styrofoam plate then drizzled in shredded Walmart cheese and microwaved on high.

Back again this year for the holidays and managed to fit 2 trips to Taco Boy in during our 4 days in Mt Pleasant. Some things remain the same — Taco Boy is one. I’ve been eating here for over 20 years, bean and cheese with sour cream and 10 mild sauces is still my favorite. Also love the super veggie wet burrito with extra onions, sour cream, and extra extra homemade hot sauce.