01/21/2026
I had All-You-Can-Eat Mexican street tacos today for Taco Tuesday at Tacos N Grill located at: 10438 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32817
For Taco Tuesday, they have 2 options:
A) All-You-Can-Eat (5-inch) tacos from 11am to 5pm for $19.99, or
B) $2.00 (3-inch) tacos all day (open 11 am, close 9 pm)
I tried option B last week (because I showed up too late for option A).
I got there early enough to try option A this week. It was unlike any other "all-you-can-eat" experience I've ever had. I ate 15 tacos in total, so I got my money's worth; however, the rules on the all-you-can-eat option were a little disappointing.
In the section of the menu where it shows the Taco Tuesday options, it says: you can order 3 tacos per order, you have to order the same meat for all 3 tacos, and it lists the meats as "Ground Beef, Chicken, Pastor".
When the waitress asked what I wanted to eat, I said I wanted to try the all-you-can-eat option, but I wanted to start with the al pastor. The waitress quickly educated me on how it works:
She said the menu shows the meats in the following order: ground beef first, chicken second, then pastor last. The rounds of tacos will come out in the order they are listed on the menu. Your first round of tacos will be ground beef; the second round will be chicken; and the third round will be al pastor. If you want to have more tacos, then you'll start again with ground beef, next would be chicken, and next would be al pastor.
I told her I wanted to start with the al pastor tacos anyway, and she said unfortunately with the unlimited tacos option, I have to start with the ground beef. I asked her "why?" She responded, "it's just the rules".
I reluctantly gave in and said, "okay we'll do the all-you-can-eat option, so I guess I'll take the ground beef ones". She asked if I wanted it with everything on it and I said yes. At every Mexican restaurant I've ever been to in the US and in Mexico, when they ask you ¿con todo? (with everything on it?) it usually means "with cilantro and onion", and you usually get the option to pick a salsa or top the tacos with salsa, radish, onions (grilled onions), pickled jalapeño, and rarely cheese at a self-serve garnish station.
When I got my first round of ground beef tacos, they already had a green salsa on them. I felt there was way too much salsa that I could not taste the meat which was seasoned and actually tasted good without salsa (I had tried them in the 3-inch version the previous week).
Because I had made a fuss about the al pastor tacos, she ended up delivering me al pastor tacos for my 2nd round. Prior to ordering the tacos I asked about the pastor tacos to see if they came with pineapple and she said it doesn't; however, there's pineapple in the marinade. When the al pastor tacos came, they were drowned in a red salsa (I actually wanted the green salsa but it was brought to me before I could ask for the green salsa... I had thought I was going to be getting the chicken tacos that round because that's the order it was listed in). The red salsa had a smoky flavor like chipotle or something, and although the salsa itself was good... I didn't care for it on my al pastor tacos. Unfortunately there was so much salsa and the smokiness was so powerful, I didn't really get to taste the pork, so I can't comment on how those tacos were other than drenched with salsa.
My third round was chicken tacos, and I didn't know what kind of salsa they were going to put on it, but since the first 2 rounds were loaded with too much salsa, I asked if I could get the tacos with about half as much salsa. She said they could do that; however, when the tacos came, I think someone forgot that I had asked for half the amount of salsa that they normally use because I still felt there was too much salsa.
For my fourth round (ground beef), since I had had them the week before and I really liked the flavor of the ground beef with NO salsa, I asked if this time they could put half the salsa or just a tiny amount, and again she said yes they could do that. When the tacos came, I still felt there was too much salsa, but I ate them anyway and just let some of the excess salsa drip onto the plate.
For my fifth round (chicken), I asked if they can either give me no salsa or just a teeny tiny bit of salsa. They were finally able to deliver me tacos with about half of a full dose of salsa, so I was happy that I could taste the chicken!
The food was good, I've had their birria and tacos before and I will definitely be back, but the rules and rigidity in accommodating customer preferences are the reasons I probably will not try the all-you-can-eat option again.
Improvements I suggest:
1) Allow customers to choose the meats they want for each of their tacos.
a. If they want to start with al pastor tacos, let them start with al pastor.
b. If they want to have one pastor, one chicken, and one beef in their first round of tacos, let them have one plate with one pastor, one chicken, and one beef taco.
c. Don't require the customers to eat all the meats.
i. Hindus don't eat beef.
ii. Muslims/Jews don't eat pork.
iii. Some people have a certain medical conditions or gastrointestinal reactions with certain proteins.
iv. Some people may not like or want all 3 meats, or some people may only want one meat.
2) DO NOT PUT SALSA ON THE TACOS BY DEFAULT!!!!!!!!!!
a. My tacos came with WAY TOO MUCH salsa on them. It's not just my opinion; others have reported this as their experience in online forums.
b. If they're going to put salsa on the tacos by default, I beg them to please consider putting half of what they usually do.
c. I would have preferred no salsa or the green salsa for my al pastor tacos. I personally didn't enjoy my al pastor tacos because the smokiness of the salsa overpowered the flavor of the meat. I have no idea what the meat tasted like, and that's what I was interested in most- I kind of made a big deal about getting al pastor tacos. I had expected to taste the pineapple which the waitress said was in the marinade, but all I tasted was the smokiness of the salsa.
d. When I had the $2 tacos the previous week, I was able to choose the type of salsa I wanted and it came in small container on the side so I could pour as little or as much as I wanted on my tacos. Please consider giving customers the option of getting salsa of their choice on the side.
e. Either way, I think they should stop the practice of putting salsa on the tacos by default because customers should be able to taste the food and it should be good without salsa. THEN customers should have the option of enhancing their taco with a salsa OF THEIR CHOICE, or none at all.
Other than the concerns I listed about their all-you-can-eat option, the food I've had from them so far has been good. I don't know what they season the ground beef with, but they were my favorite flavor of taco this week and last week.
I'd try their $2.00 tacos again, but not the all-you-can-eat option unless they change their rules to accommodate their customers' preferences and let them choose whichever meats they want in whichever order or to "mix-and-match" tacos. The "mix-and-match" tacos solution would the the best customer experience, obviously.
I'm sure they may have reasons as to why they're so strict on the all-you-can-eat option which I'm unaware of, but I felt it was imperative to give an honest review so people know what to expect and so they know what customers are thinking.
If the rules and restrictions I mentioned are off-putting to you, I recommend you try their $2 tacos on taco Tuesday, or just get something else on the menu. As a birrieria, they have birria, quesabirria tacos, and other options besides tacos! And their agua frescas are yummy and refreshing too!!
