Taco Time

Its not even open at 8pm on a non-​holiday Thursday. That’s one time too many! Won’t ever be going back.

Taco Time manages to provide dirt cheap food without coming across as being unesecessarily disgusting. A proper taqueria is still better, but sometimes, this will do. They have signature dishes and all kinds of combos. Plenty of seating is right at this location of the chain. Wait time will likely be about five minutes usually.
I’ve often passed this place by, during my bus ride. This segment of eighty-​second does not howl for going elsewhere. I got a crispy meat burrito at around two and a half dollars. As the paper on my tray claimed, they do it in a unique way. The crunch and the overall coherence was great. The meat could be better, but ingesting was on the net positive.
This is a good value.

Great Food & Fast Service for fast Mexican food. Tastes Better Than Taco bell and Is Much More Fresh.

This location seems to be vying for the title of worst Taco Time in the Northwest. I just grabbed a quick bite from there and as usual I’m missing an item from a very simple order and don’t have the time to turn around and get it fixed. The only one of two crispy tacos I received is stuffed full of that gross thick, barely green lettuce.
It makes me miss the Taco Times in Lewiston and Clarkston which were really good and always got orders correct. If you grew up there you know that Taco Time has the potential to be awesome. This location is a consistent disappointment. Save your dollars and go to the location in North Portland if you need your Taco Time fix.

Taco Time needs much improvement time. Had the chicken and black bean burrito with extra cheese for 4.99. First their burritos are 2 thirds smaller than a usual burrito, my extra cheese or cheese if any was no where in sight, chicken and black beans were very scarce, mostly rice no flavor and when you bite into the burrito the first two bites are all tortilla… yuck! They conveniently fold it to make up for the ingredients. Overpriced muck. It’s $ 5 I will never see again. Just horrible. Worst burrito I ever experienced.

Where TT standards fall to 7 – 11 quality. Horrible awful horrendous. Not up to TT levels at all. Really really bad. We weren’t even able to finish the meal.

Worst customer service, 2 times in a row. If you come in to order, pray you don’t get the tall Indian (as in from India) American fellow. Both times he acted tottally put out to take our order, and kept stopping inbetween our order of 7 items to take 2 drive through orders. The food is always great, thats why I’m torn leaving a low star review, if they service improved it would be a 4 star in my book.

We’ve been in the same neighborhood for less than 40 years. We’ve passed here a gazillion times! I found this place, because I was shopping next door from him (corner from him) for some ‘vintage’ flea market stuff, and the owner introduced me to the owner of TT, for future events.
On the day of my event, it was only respectful to try their food, instead of brown-​bagging it! I was not a bit disappointed. I had the chicken burrito, and it was THE perfect size & spice for me! Hubby had the green chile enchilada. It was very, very good. Just the right flavors and not overly spicy. The service was prompt and friendly. Our order was ‘to go’, and he was provided with all of the necessary implements. I will go there again. 3 stars.
Would I order there again? Would I be giving the restaurant 4 stars if the answer is NO? We’ll eat there again!
The reason for my 1 star minus: the bathroom. You need to unlock & lock the outside bathroom. Locking it is more difficult than unlocking it — if you get my drip. And outside bathrooms, anywhere in the world, is always creepy, and well. .. . needs to be cleaner, and newer. But I have no idea how long the owner had been an owner, since I have no history of how long was that, I can’t make a judge on future remodeling, but that’s my suggestion. The front yard is also in the middle of some work. So, I know they’re into improvements! Plus all I know is that he’s got a heart of gold! And that’s because he’s now my new friend, for allowing me do an event on his property!
Thank you!

When exactly is Taco Time? When you’re sober? When you’re drunk? When you’re broke? When you’re desperate? When you’re starving? When nothing else is open? 10:17pm?
What exactly defines the moment along the greater temporal spectrum that signifies that it’s time for tacos made with ingredients squirted out of caulking guns?
I’ll tell you when it’s Taco Time, at least according to my sweet new red «Time to Unilocal» watch:
1. When it’s late, and I’m desperate and hungry and short on time, and
2. It has been so long since the last time I’ve eaten Taco Time that I have forgotten the related emotional and gastrointestinal roller-​coaster it sent me on, and
3. My brain is clouded with delusional memories of how good Mexi Fries used to taste to me when I was a kid, and
4. All I want to do is go home, eat some grub and go to bed after a long trip, and
5. I seem to be under the delusion that it’s a good idea to order a burrito called «Big Juan» (or whatever it was called).
That’s when it was Taco Time for me, at least that’s when it was a couple of weeks ago when we drove through this chain outpost for the first time in… forever.
Normally when I want late night burrito I will brave bullet-​hole-​riddled windows and sketchy NoPo environs to head for Javier’s, which, yes, is a gut bomb, but at least I know what I’m eating.
Tired and beat from a long trip, with Taco Time on the way home, we stopped in and I got a combo meal. The burrito was by no means «big» compared to what I get at taquerias and taco trucks around town. It was small. And filled with some finely ground beef and various other saucy ingredients (is that beans?) shot into the burrito out of caulking guns (yup, I saw the guy making it through the drive-​thru). It reminded me why I don’t eat Mexican fast food. It reminded me that it’s not going to be Taco Time again for me for a long time.
Why two stars? In its category, Taco Time vastly outshines Taco Bell. By a long shot. However it doesn’t compare to any variety of sketchy taquerias when it comes to ingredients and care with which the food is made. Sorry, it’s just not good food. Sure, the Mexi Nuggets can be good when you want greasy processed potato pellets, but everything else was disappointing at best.

I was so excited to get this taco time in! The owner is almost always there so everything usually comes pretty quickly and he will do everything he can to give you what you want! excellent service!