It's Sunday and I must confess.... that Tasty Tacos...is my favorite restaurant in Des Moines. I try and change up what I order and on this visit I was feeling like a vegetarian (we wear green everyday!) and had the flour nachos & mushrooms. My youngest daughter went for a regular flour taco with just cheese, please! Everything was piping hot and since I will do anything for love; the mushroom juice squirted out each time because I kept trying to bite the head off. Turns out your supposed to shove it in your mouth....I felt awkward...but did it. Store was filled with amazing workers who had my order out in no time. Good News is there are various locations around the DSM area so you can grab it before or after your event. Since #DesMoinesIsMyMistress....I always try and work a visit in... In no particular order;) Des Moines = Tasty Tacos Quad Cities = Rudy's Tacos Iowa City = La Regia read more

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Absolutely Perfect! Im a classic girl. 2 originals with Sour cream. I use their sauce flor heat and additional flavor. I love the meat and bean mixture as its rice in flavorful spice. I like to split my taco and eat from the inside out! The SC enhances each bite. This is my favorite bite when I come home. I also love the jalapeño poppers too. read more

Tasty Tacos - Original Flour Tacos with Sour Cream - Mexican Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

Good food, good service. Always consistent, a mainstay since childhood. Writing this makes me hungry for one right now!

Either you're a Tasty Tacos person or you aren't. The food here us slightly different from your average fast food tacos. Their original tacos are fried puffy shells with meat, beans, lettuce and cheese. Always get the hot sauce you see sitting around. The flour nachos are delicious with the salsa as well. The service is order and pay at the counter and you're given a number. Go to your table and wait patiently. It's a no frills restaurant as far as ambiance and decor. The food is just plain good and not overly priced. Handful of locations around the metro so pick one! read more

Tasty Tacos - Mexican Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

Wednesday night before Thanksgiving we stopped in. So wants to cook anyway. The traditional look for Tasty Taco. Family photos on the walls. The lady behind the register was very kind. Not our first time I got the steak flour taco. Hungry hubby got a steak and a pork flour taco. He also tried a steak enchilada. We purchase the sour cream and get waters to drink. Snag our number and take a seat. You get booths or table. Nice music playing. People's numbers are called out and soon enough our food came up. Really hit the spot. Can't go wrong with their flour taco. Hubby might pass on the enchiladas in the future cause the love of the taco shell is what brings us and is our favorites. We don't make it to this location often but really you can't go wrong. Love this restaurant! read more

Tasty Tacos - 3 flour steak taco - Mexican Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

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Real Mexican food fixed fresh and fast. Our favorites are soft-shell tacos and tasty taters Prices are extremely reasonable! I wish they had a drive-thru, we would stop more often! Love them! read more

Probably my favorite location, a bit smaller than some but just as tasty, of course! We tried the taco salad for the first time - it has chili on it! as well as a corn and flour taco and chips and queso. Delicious!! The food here is always fresh, filling and satisfying. read more

Tasty Tacos - Corn and flour tacos - Mexican Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

Always delicious and friendly staff. Always a clean restaurant too. My favorite are the Flour Taco's with light lettuce. And the Enchiladas are delicious too! read more

11:45am, Thursday, one original flour taco and an order of tasty taters. Service was fast, like super fast. Less than 5 minutes and 7 orders were called out. If you're going here for the first time, stand in line, place your order, keep your receipt, it has your order number on it. Get your beverage while you wait and grab a table. Make it quick, this place fills up for lunch everyday at noon. It's clean and obviously decorated with red, yellow and green. Be kind and give the staff some grace, the tables get dirty when they are busy. They do turn over quickly, those who eat here regularly know to eat and get going for other customers. Other favorites of mine, Flour Nachos, buenelos, enchiladas and jalapeño poppers. Salsa on the tables, there is no need to swap out for a full bottle on another table. read more

Tasty Tacos - Original Flour Taco (extra cheese for me) and Tasty Taters - Mexican Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

I have never had a bad taco from tasty tacos, but today I went to the mills civic store. The store was filthy. The floors had trash and food very noticeable, I thought maybe they had a busy noon crowd, as I left I noticed the doors were also filthy. So many finger marks. I will stay on the Eastside from now on read more

The original and best flour tacos in town. We enjoy their flour tacos, enchiladas, nachos and topping it off their homemade salsa is a must. They always seems to have a great staff with good service who get things done. I've been going there on a regular basis for decades and haven't ever been disappointed with anything or when getting takeout haven't ever had a missing item from our order. It's casual dining at its best. read more

We love tasty tacos and eat there probably once a month. The restaurant is always clean. We usually get original or steak tacos. They're always good. If you want AUTHENTIC Mexican food, this may not be for you. If want damn good tacos, tasty tacos is best. However I will say I've noticed their customer service is suffering a lot lately read more

Hadn't been to a TT in quite a while. Reading some of the reviews, I was a bit tentative, but I really enjoyed what I got. Is it authentic Mexican food? I dunno...this is the Midwest and it's about par for the course in that area, but once you've decided that's what you're in the mood for, it's pretty good grub. I got two fluffy flour chicken tacos. $3.25 seemed like it might be a bit high priced, BUT a serving of two was a good-sized lunch portion for me, so I'd say it was a reasonable value. My tacos were tasty, chocked full of chicken, and nicely filled with lettuce and cheddar cheese. The salsa on the table had a decent bit of a kick to it, and added nicely to the entree. During the 30 minutes or so we were there the line was always 5-6 deep, but the food was coming out in about 3-4 minutes per order, so that seemed like a reasonable wait time. There were plenty of tables, even with the steady stream of customers, the bathrooms were clean, and service was polite. All in all, a good experience! read more

A true Midwest staple. A few foods are timeless classics --the original flour taco is one of those. The fluffy fry bread is what makes the original flour tacos tasty. The flour chips and cheese bites are great side options. Almost every menu item tastes better doused in Tasty Tacos's homemade hot sauce! Most menu items are bland and greasy. With the exception of the foods in the above paragraph, not many other choices are worth purchasing. read more

I must admit: I've not been to a Tasty Tacos that I didn't like.* This one is much like the others - mom-and-pop feel with spectacularly good steak tacos and nachos with cheese. The real draw for me is, and will forever remain, the sauce. Spicy, flavorful, and always worth taking home for later. * This one happens to be the first Tasty Tacos I ever went to. read more

I called order in was told 15 min drove to store and waited 20 more min finally ask about my order they finally came out with it 3 soft tacos these were basiclt empty tacos maybe a teaspoon of meat in each one they should just raise the price and let us decide if we still want to purchase them rather then skimp on what we have been buying since the 70's. Too bad used to be the best in town now I wont be back. Thank you for years of the best service and tacos. read more

Ordered tacos at 9:30, didn't think it was too late, correct me if I'm wrong but when i left the guy said, "I hope you enjoy the tacos because we didn't enjoy making them" u guys suck read more

Americanized greasy "Mexican" food. That is what this is. I grew up poor in Des Moines and a treat we always used to do was Tasty Tacos. Well it's not as great when you're an adult in my opinion. Rather bland, just greasy food, that leaves you wanting some real authentic tacos (assuming you've ever had them). You get 2 stars just for the good memories of eating choco tacos as a child. read more

Just left this place with no food. I'm a bit confused because I called my order ahead and was told ten minutes. I arrived ten minutes later and they WERE busy. I stood under the sign that said phone order pick-up. After they checked out four customers that were walk-ins, another person came out started ringing up more walk-in customers while I could see my bag of tacos behind them just sitting there. After being ignored at the phone order line I just left. I guess I just don't see the point in a phone order pick-up line if you still have to wait till all the walk-in customers are rung up first. I love Tasty Tacos so I guess I just won't go to this location anymore. read more

Food is great as always but the staff aren't the friendliest. I ordered fried mushrooms and she put in 5 orders. The manager (I believe), voided 4 of the orders and asked the employee how did she get 5 orders. With an attitude, she raised her voice at him and said, "I know for sure she said 5 orders." That was one incident. Another time, I placed an order over the phone and spoke to Mike. He said it will take 10 minutes. I gave him an extra 15 minutes before picking it up. When I arrived, he puts my order in then rings me up. I ended up waiting another 10 minutes. Very poor customer service. read more

Don't really know how this place got 4 stars? Maybe they don't know better up here? No corn tortillas , no horchata, no Mexican soda, no salsa bar? Oh but American cheese on everything? Unfriendly cashier girl in the place that has the air condition cranked so high that she wears a sweater. My taco shells of the pork tacos were fried? WTF? The burrito was as big as a flauta! Only plastic silver wear ! Seriously Taco Bell is better and has salsa choices read more

Not good. What they serve are not tacos. Corn taco means a fried crunchy shell. When I think of taco I think two small corn tortillas with meat, onions, and cilantro with some different salsa to spread on top. I don't think cilantro has ever been in that building. The one salsa they had was no good but there was mustard. Wait we don't put mustard on tacos. The tacos are not tasty. Taco Bell is five stars when compared to this here place. The cheese they used...maybe the worst aspect of the whole place. Very wonderful staff though. I have now been told that one should never get Mexican food in the Mid-West because they have no idea what it is and just make it up as they see fit. Oh, and also fry everything...twice. read more

This was recommended to me by a colleague at work while on a business trip here. Im pretty certain that this is one of the locations I went to based on the photos. Any who, this is one of the best Mexican restaurants I've been to. Beats Taco Bell any day. Best of all it is a family owned business that has 6 locations all nearby and the food tastes authentically good. Will definitely come back here when Im in the area again. read more

The best quick lunch! Always full of hard working men so you know it's good. I've only had the original tacos....best taco ever. A must try and use the sauce. read more

Can't go anywhere without seeing a Tasty Tacos somewhere or advertisements for it. I was first introduced to Tasty Tacos when I came to Des Moines a few years back and now am a regular customer. Their tacos taste different from anywhere else I've been in my life, they taste REAL. Their flour tacos and nachos are the staple items, must try! Their decor is order at the counter from an old school looking menu, which is interesting. The whole feel with the restaurant is like a family run place. They have expanded so much I think they are available to everyone in the area. One thing I learned is that their burritos are very small...order a lot if you plan to get full. Their sides are tasty as well. Staff is friendly, but you won't really interact with them. This place is just as good as the others! read more

I ran the Dam to Dsm on Saturday morning and one of my friends told me to try out Tasty Tacos and I went to go try it out and it's was very good tacos and I highly recommended anybody to try out the original taco read more

This is a must visit for people that move away from Iowa. It's a local family owned fast food restaurant with amazing flour tacos. Enchiladas are good also. I don't like dining in, but I don't like fast food atmosphere anyplace. The 5 star is for the food not the dine in atmosphere. read more

Horrible customer service. Screwed up my order. Hung up on me when I called in. I called back and listened to them laugh for 5 minutes about how they wanted to just see how long I'd wait. I WILL NOT BE BACK. read more

I ordered a chicken enchilada, friend that came with me ordered a flour tortilla taco. Flour tortilla was thick! Guacamole and sour cream were "extra." Came here because it's a local chain and people raved about it. Was a bit disappointed. Food was no better than the "national chains," I expected better. No room to park the RV. I came here with a friend who drove. read more

Food is pretty good but the salsa is old and fermented every time. I spent 60 dollars on food for my office and got old salsa that was sweet and looked carbonated it was so old. They tried to tell me it was from the grinder, complete bs. It was disgusting. Have some respect for your customers and at least serve us fresh salsa. I asked when the salsa was made he says we make our salsa fresh everyday. They key thing they don't mention is they store the fresh salsa until they run out of the old. I told him I'm 100% sure this salsa wasn't made today. The manager then tells me even if the salsa is a few days old it's good to eat. I didn't want to eat a dry taco with no sauce so sadly I spent 60 dollars to skip lunch. Thanks tasty tacos I won't be back. read more

Tasty Tacos - Mexican Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

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I absolutely love the flour tacos!!! Why else would you go here? The tacos are an absolute must if you come here, it's why they are called Tasty Tacos. I especially love their salsa! It's actually spicy, compared to most other fast food Mexican places where the standard is a boring mild. I come all the time, and no matter what time of day, it always has people! I love getting the chips and guacamole to go with my taco! read more

I grew up in Des Moines and somehow managed to move away before ever eating here. I finally went there on a visit home and now can't imagine a trip to Des Moines without eating at Tasty Tacos! It's a fantastic, greasy, delicious indulgence. I lived in Arizona for a while and have spent some time in Mexico and I wouldn't say this is very authentic Mexican food but it's for gringos and it is good! read more

What happened to customer service? Kids run this at night.. start closing 2 hours early..leave no tables open. And all you get is a shrugged shoulder No napkins no spoon, gee guess the kid won... Use to love it..will have to find something else read more

I thoroughly enjoyed this place. Yes it is fast food, yes it is a dive, but compared to other fast food places that serve tacos this place is a definite step up. Huge menu and all items I tried were delicious. read more

Best tacos ever. 2 flour original tacos and I'm stuffed full and it was so good i didn't want to stop eating. Also the homemade hot sauce is to die for. This is my new must have place to eat with food i will be dreaming about read more

Greasy food. Too much fried from frozen. Flavors are blander than they should be. Not a very friendly bunch of people, except to spanish speaking hispanic customers. Not a bad deal price wise. Every once in a while break from the usual lunch? Sure. read more

Im not sure what all the hype was about. It is a unique taco that is for sure but not something I think I would go back for. They did a fried flour tortilla that kind of interesting but other than that I didn't get it. It was sub par mexican food in a dingy spot. read more

Good as long as they're not busy. Tacos tonight we're way undercooked and very little meat. Kids wouldn't eat and neither would I. Quantity over quality for sure. Waste of my money. read more

So my family in Des Moines found it a bit funny that Tasty Taco's was on the top things to do/try when in Des Moines...so we went there to experience the goodness...and the goodness we did eat. Yep, Tasty Taco's is all it's cracked up to be. Give it a try. read more

Not sure what has happened here. We used to eat at Tasty Taco's all the time. The flour tacos are a cesspool of grease and bland flavor. And the help on this particular day did not look clean at all. Which has never been a problem before. I'm not trying to down anyone but when you see that making your food it bothers you. I will maybe try other locations but this was a disappointment. read more