If you think this is just another sub par Mexican food drive thru, think again! This is our go-to for GOOD Mexican food. We found it in our way back from a Nuggets game and now drive to it as the destination. The portions are huge and the food is super authentic. I love a simple bean burrito and side of rice. And you can't forget their Jamaica - huge portion and the perfect amount of sweet. It's not somewhere you want to eat inside, but perfect for take out! read more

My husband and I went here at 1:00am just now because he wanted to get a chorizo, egg and steak burrito from here. I was insisting to make some avocado toast instead. Anyways We get home and he takes like 4 or 5 bites into his burrito and each time he got a bite of egg shells with it. He was pretty upset and wouldn't let me call them to complain so I'm leaving this review. I could've just put eggshells in his avocado toast for free ‍ read more

Taco Star - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

Service is not bad just the food was not good gave my kids diaherria for a week. They had Asada tacos and asada fries. They should have better control of thier food and preparation. read more

Always reliable , maybe long wait times depending on time of day and a different burrito experience then Santiagos west across I-25 on 84th. Santiagos is more green chile based and Taco star gives you little side cups of green or red sauce with ham chorizo, steak and more styles. A single burrito is larger and averages about $10-13 . Santiagos you can get two burritos under $10. Both styles are great. The Taco Star one will fill you up till supper or the day, the Santiagos , you'll regret the hot chile version. read more

Ordered beef taco. The taco shell and beef were burnt. Could not eat the taco shell because it was so hard. Could not even break it with a fork. Terrible experience and over priced. read more

WARNING!! This place has given me food poisoning twice! I ate the Colorado burrito and thought it tasted off...was sick af the next day throwing up! Couple months later came back and got asada fries giving them another chance...made me terribly ill! Felt like there was cement in my stomach for 3 days and I was puking within the first 24 hours! It was horrible!! Plus they make up prices as they go and take full advantage of the extras you order! THIS. PLACE. SUCKS!!!! read more

BRO THEY GAVE ME FOOD POISONING , ITS LITERALLY 2026 CMON NOW. I went yesterday afternoon for lunch, and after I ate 1 carne asada taco, my stomach felt insane, I had welts coming up on my face, i was throwing up with the most awful feeling in my stomach and had to go to the er and get iv fluids into me and other stuff. U nasty place, u have what's coming for u. Absolutely gross gross gross. read more

We haven't ate this in so long and it sounded good. We were craving it tonight , and figured why not? After waiting about 20 min through the drive thru which is typically average waiting time. We got home and were disappointed! The food wasn't even warm. I live 3 minutes away. The cheese isn't melted on my rolled tacos. And my $14 carne asada fries were stale AF and cold! The only thing that was up to par was the horchata. The wife and I quickly remembered why we haven't ate at this place in a while and now we def know. And we definitely won't be back to our neighborhood Taco Star, which was far from a a 1 star establishment tonight! Also, my wife tried calling to complain, but go figure, the phones disconnected! Stay far away from this place! Visit Chubbys around the corner or even TacoBell. read more

Taco Star - The cold and old "carne asada fries" - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

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Tried Taco Star for the first time. I was very happy with my purchase. I would come back for more. I enjoyed two carnitas tacos and two carne asada tacos. They came with plenty of green and red salsa. The service was good. I should have also ordered some fries. The tacos came on two flour tortillas. A drive through option was available. Normal waiting time. read more

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Honestly it was the best Mexican food I have had in a while. I don't know if it is because I'm extremely pregnant or if it was because I was ravenous but taco star exceeded my expectations. Great service, no wait, and awesome fast Mexican food. Will be going back here again!! TACO STAR FOR THE WIN! read more

This place is gross af. I ate here n I got Chorro & nausea for 4 days straight I had to go to the hospital and they told me I got food contamination from meat don't come here !!!! Please read more

Definitely I would never never never order chiles rellenos , The adobada and asada fries are good though read more

Taco Star - It's these a chile relleno - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

Love taco star! Always hits the spot when craving tacos! They are always affordable, fast and friendly. Food is consistently good and always fresh. This has become my household staple when we want Mexican food (which is very often). read more

My food was Cold and they took too long to give me my food too. Worst 30 bucks I spent. I used to enjoy this spot too

2.5 rating if I could, enchiladas were flooded with sauce, the cheese wasn't melted at all and the overall service okay online. It was decent but nothing special, better off going to a different place read more

Taco Star is 24 Hour Operating Tex-Mex themed Drive Thru!! Mainly serving family style taco meal, carni asada burrito, carnitas plate combo, 12 rolled tacos, adobada torta, mix enchiladas, chorizo & eggs plate, and super nachos. Taco Star uses the freshest ingredients in preparing their food to provide the best quality and taste. They have a pretty killer reward point system with money off coupons for regulars, coming to enjoy the foods!! Closest thing I've been able to find to a California Burrito like the ones you get in San Diego!! read more

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Rats Rats Rats!!!!! Me and my husband were in the drive thru tonight at 12:45am and watched a Rat run behind the building to the dumpster. Then we noticed a dead bloated rat laying behind the menu sign. My husband still decided to order food. We will see if he is still alive in the morning. Save yourself the money and don't go here. Are you sure that's chicken in your tacos? Rat... the other white meat. read more

Taco Star - A dead bloated rat. Behind the menu sign. - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

2 stars for the portions that they give you in the tacos and for the freshness of the tomatoes that they put on top of them. Otherwise, this was a disappointing experience. I ordered delivery from here and the food came early which was a plus, but that's where the positives end. The meat wasn't seasoned in any of the tacos that I ordered. I ordered an adobada taco, carne asada taco, and carnitas taco and all 3 tacos were so bland that I had to drench them in salsa. The pint of rice that I ordered was also very bland with no flavor or seasonings on it, it might as well have been plain white rice. The meat didn't taste the freshest either like what other reviews mentioned. I won't order from here again :( read more

customer service is the worst here! don't eat here, place is dirty...and expensive! I won't eat here again

I bragged about this place to my wife, and so I brought her some food. Not only did they get her food wrong, my tacos were trash. I also had a burrito that I asked for no tomatoes, and of course they had tomatoes. Very disappointed. The salsa was the best part of the meal. read more

Taco Star - Three tacos, should have called a left over stale nachos.once ahi have been here in the past and it was good. - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

Great food and worth the price. My only reason for taking off a star is I had an item missing from my order and by the time I had gotten to where I was going 20 miles later to realize my bag as incomplete and I was charged for that item. read more

Trash a$$ service dude forgets drink, forgets to add guacamole on carne asada fries , isn't clean at all using no gloves while handling food or drink and bones in the chicken enchilada like wtf smh someone needs to fire him asap ! Would not recomend !! Check your food befor you leave too ! read more

Taco Star - Bones in the chicken enchilada like wtf bro ? - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

I waited in the 35 min drive through line for food poisoning. I ordered asada fries with rubbery meat and a bean and cheese burrito. A few hours later im ejectile vommiting read more

I kindly requested that the sauce my burrito was smothered in not be too spicy, I took one bite and immediately started sweating, and my head started throbbing. My girlfriend who has an insanely high spice-tolerance tried it and couldn't believe how hot it was, while her meal was perfectly normal. There is no doubt they intentionally made my meal inedible because I asked for it to be not as spicy. (I haven't eaten here before so I wasn't sure what their food was like). So incredibly immature and disrespectful. read more

Taco Star. YES Its a DRIVE THRU MEXICAN FAST FOOD. You still can seat outside, where outside seating is the ONLY place you can seat in case you do not want to eat in your vehicle what nots. Was here with Hubs for a late lunch. Thursday April 7th 2011. Time :14:45hrs. Hubs ordered the Carne Burrito, while I opt for the Carne Asada Tacos. Since I am quite new to this DRIVE-Thru establishment, I dont know what to order. Too many to choose and I cant decide. Since we cant be long thru the drive thru, I got to decide with a whimp! The Burrito itself is BIG. Hubs like it. The flavor was good. But I believe what I ordered for the Taco, the carne asada is the same meats on what Hubs ordered for the Burrito. My order came with 2 pieces of tortilla, with guacamole, the meats, carne asada, onions, cilantro and tomatoes. Both of our orders came with the hot sauce, a green sauce and red sauce. I like the green sauce better than the red sauce. I like my order. Its huge. 3.5 stars. For the PRICE of a Drive-Thru, I'll stick to 3 stars. Its more pricey for the order we opt for. The food also reminds Hubs on what he used to have back in California. But Hubs told me, if you work in CONSTRUCTION, and you are press with time, this place suffice with the big portions and the price. Definitely be back, to try many more in their menu. Perhaps might seat at the outside dining area provided. read more

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Carne asada fríes are the best. Love this place. Great food and great service. The one in Thornton is my favorite. read more

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If I could give this place zero stars I would. I live by here and I would never call Jessie here. I came today to do a doordash. Those people do not wear gloves. Why they're preparing your food? They very rude. Disrespectful. Do not know how to wash their hands absolutely. Just very unprofessional on their cell phones instead of getting their job done I swear if I could give them zero stars or negative stars I most definitely would. Whatever you do do not eat here. Do not order from here read more

Now I don't mind waits, half the time the food is worth waiting for. However when me and my boyfriend went to get a cheese quesadilla and a shredded chicken quesadilla tonight, the cheese wasn't even melted all the way through to the point I could pick off all the little shreds of cheese out from between the tortillas. Not to mention his chicken quesadilla had a bone in it, went back to have them right the bone situation since he was the first one to even eat his food, they ended up remaking his. Took the new quesadilla back to the car and it was better, just the cheese was still not fully melted. We will never be coming back since this has ruined our experience completely. They don't even deserve a 1 star. read more

Worse place to order from on Uber, Grubhub, etc they have no respect for customers request if thats them not knowing english or what but i asked for limes twice on the same order and i didnt recieve one pack im ready to go down there and raise hell but i already know they are stupid and they just look at you like your stupid read more

We were desperate for food late after a show. Ordered 6 of the bean tostadas bc we don't eat meat and they literally put some kind of gray, nasty-looking mystery meat on every single one. Not to mention, each tostada was in a styrofoam box. Just all around terrible. read more

Hurry TF UP!!! 35 min in a drive through seriously? Why have a drive through. Also give my card back after you run it. Don't just keep it till i get my food. Literally wrote this as i was waiting. read more

Terrible, absolutely terrible. I ordered three crispy chicken tacos and it looks like they literally threw them in the to-go box. Literally no consideration what so ever about the food going through the drive through window . After literally flying to Denver from Texas to eat some good food which I've had from here before but after this experience I will never be back . If the managers can't open up at least one plate that's being served out the window and make sure they exceed expectations, I don't feel comfortable making any further purchases through either one of their franchises . read more

Taco Star - Literally couldn't even open to double check this is absolutely ridiculous after driving more than 30 minutes to only get home - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

If you want something after midnight to either eat, or snort, then this is your place.

Many years ago, I found myself somewhere in the bowels of Northglenn, and while waiting for something at American Furniture Warehouse to plug a temporary hole in my then rapidly-deteriorating marriage, I went through the drive-through at Taco Star. I order a fish taco, I usually order a fish taco, that's my food of choice. It was outstanding, enough to let me forget things for a bit and enjoy a really well-made fish taco. There are basically three kinds of fish tacos; the kind that use fresh fish and are made really carefully, and with expense. Wahoo's makes a good version of this, though it seems it might be hard for them to keep the prices from going up too much for high-quality fish. And then there are fast-food versions of the fish taco, like at Del Taco, where presumably frozen fish is fried. And then there is the third kind ... Legend has it that in Southern California, a hungry lady or gentleman could buy a fresh fish taco grilled to perfection for just a couple bucks from a place along the beach. But this is Colorado, and when our budget is $5 or so for lunch, our beachside stand is a place like Del Taco or Taco Star. These places have a secret weapon though that the California-styled taco huts like Wahoo's don't have ... they have knowledge from the birthplace of the fish taco, they have experts from Baja, Mexico, who have learned the ancient art of turning a half-decent piece of fish into a meal fit for the most proficient of Snake Pilot. I remembered that outstanding fish taco from Taco Star so many years ago, when I accidentally found myself at the Aurora version of this restaurant yesterday, while helping a hottie to a replacement battery for her Vulva ... err, Volvo. Wait, Outtie? Innie? Audi? No, it was a Volvo, definitely a Volvo. I remembered that shining beacon of perfection from my afternoon in Northglenn and I ordered the fish taco. It was Taco Tuesday by chance, so I got a whole net full of them for a price so low that I should be embarrassed to have taken a hottie there, just indebted for the price of a Volvo battery, with core replacement of course. It was everything I remembered. I have no idea what the rest of their food was, I only ordered the fish tacos, and that is all I will ever likely order here. If they changed the name of their restaurant to Fish Taco Star, I'm not even sure that I would notice. The hottie with the Volvo ordered something, but once she tasted the fish taco, she seemed to have lost interest in whatever meat tostada thing she had, and then like me, she became a drooling fish taco devouring zombie, with knowledge of only Fish Taco Star's fish taco. A fish taco is the taco equivalent of a sonnet. It has to be done simply to be done right. The template is two corn tortillas with grilled fish, chunks of white cabbage, and spicy mayo. No other ingredients are needed. BUT ... to expect fresh grilled fish from a fast food joint would be unreasonable, so the experts at Taco Star have apparently modified the architecture of the fish taco so that it works with the fried and breaded fish. They use different tortillas, and they add some other sauces. It's as perfect as the kind of the beach in SoCal, just in a different way. They'll give you some sauce with it, a green one which is a little like Huacatay, and a brown one that's kind of smokey. You won't need it, but you should smuggle them home for something else. Their fish tacos -- as made yesterday are perfect without adding any of that. If management finally forces them to use less perfection with making these, they might still be great, but I hope they give some of that money they save to the employees here, because without a cook staff of this level of skill, their fish taco wouldn't have a chance. With their skill, it's a masterpiece. One small issue ... a fish taco as perfect as this, needs a perfect drink. They have the pineapple and the manadarin Jarritos, which are okay, but not really built to accompany fish tacos as god as what they make here. They need the lime flavor and even better, the plain Mineragua soda, which might be the best accompany to one of these fish tacos. They do include a couple limes which are helpful, At a lesser place, you would squeeze them on the fish. But at Fish Taco Star, you will save them for the end of the meal. Because after you finish the fish tacos, your immediate impulse will be to go buy more Fish Taco Star fish tacos, and you will continue this cycle until you either run out of money or explode. After you finish your last fish taco, remember that lime. In your daze, grab it, suck on it. Yes, it will damage your dentin, but they will allow you to forget the taste of that perfect fish taco, and thus save you from the endless fish-taco cycle of which there is no escape. read more

So I came here because one my my family class mate girls works here and several girls told me the foods is really good, cheap and 24/7! Uh yeah, it's right up my ally after drinking for the past few hours in Lodo and midnight munchies hit me. Gave hubby a choice, we could stop to get a nice bottle wine on the way home or he could take me to this place. Well we opted for this tasty late night meal. My girls were right, this place is good! I had the super Nachos - I loved how they give you a Ton of steak meat. It's soo hearty, juicy and good! Absolutely delicious and I couldn't finish it. Carnitas Burrito - this was Huge and super good! It was super filled/stuffed with meat. Asada taco plate - this was pretty good, but my least favorite. I think it's because the Burrito and nachos were the "star" pun intended of this show. lol Wish this place wasn't so far from where I live, but it's worth the drive especially since it's opened like ALWAYS and they get your order to you fast! read more

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I checked out Taco Star yesterday for the first time. As some other reviewers have mentioned, the location is a previous Good Times outlet, so beware that outside seating is limited to 4 or 5 umbrella tables, along with the mainstream drive-thru and walk-up window services. Being open 24/7 in this neck of the woods is an automatic star in itself. The menu looked very extensive, with many of the traditionals including tortas in the mix. I went with two grilled chicken tacos, which were very nicely stuffed, and included side orders of both red and green sauce. I haven't encountered too many places that offer fried flour (vs. corn) taco shells, so that was a good switch. Great for the most part, but my reasons for 4 stars only: 1. The place was packed with drive-thru customers and walk-up window patrons - usually a good sign that things are busy, but the three people they had working inside during this peak lunch shift were a bit slow putting things out. 2. Something tasted a bit off in the grilled chicken tacos. Couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I think it might have been some spoiled sour cream. 3. I've had slightly better authentic Mexican food elsewhere. All in all, a good visit, and I'll definitely be back to try some more of the menu items. read more

Taco Star - Grilled Chicken Tacos. - Fast Food Near Me - Thornton, Colorado

This is a very decent place for Mexican food, especially if you are looking for something to eat late at night. We stopped there on our way from the airport to Fort Collins around 1 am. While not expecting much, we wanted to get something better than the usual collection of late-night fast foods. We were not disappointed - the Rocky mountains and Carne Assado burritos were amazing and the sauces they were offered with offered a good enhancement to the spiciness and texture of the food. Their guac and chips were absolutely amazing as well. Overall, would recommend, especially for the late nights. read more

So this past week my husband and I had a summer vacation in Colorado and had made a plan to go to places and restaurants that weren't in Texas. Due to the fact we drove from Texas, && I work night shift, our sleep schedule was wacky. At 0200 we were wide awake and hungry so we took a drive. We were staying in Westminster and nothing seemed to be open, so we went out further and found this charm. It was busy so we knew it had to be good! Sadly enough no picture but my hubby got the beef nachos and I got the beef burrito. It was so much food for such a little amount & was so yummy ! We had wanted to go back but this time the line was a little more than our liking but definitely glad we had given it a try! read more

I ordered a carne asada burrito and couldn't even go passed one bite !!! The meat is all nerves ' was disgusting like chewing on hard plastic !!! read more

Long wait in Drive through but worth it.. Taco bells next door but this place is way better. Cheap food and huge portions.