This National Taco Day, here’s a drive-thru with $1.50 shredded garlic brisket tacos
Do not limit your consumption of tacos solely to National Taco Day.
But the annual marketing promotion arrives Sunday, Oct. 4, with chain-restaurant taco specials for those unlucky few who do not live near a real taqueria.
Fort Worth-based Fuzzy’s Taco Shops lead the National Taco Day celebrations here, with $1.50 beef, chicken, pork or veggie tacos available for the first time as takeout orders (limit 10).
Yes. I know Fuzzy’s is in its 20th year here selling its fabled Baja-style tempura fish tacos. But they’re not on sale this year.
That’s OK. The ground beef soft tacos are a bargain for $1.50, along with Fuzzy’s popular shredded garlic brisket tacos.
They come with Fuzzy’s signature feta mix, a distinction from other chain-restaurant tacos, plus the creamy garlic sauce and the company’s special recipe hot sauce.
The celebration is especially important this year, Fuzzy’s executive Mel Knight wrote by email, “because our fans have been so supportive of the locations and our employees.”
The best Fuzzy’s to visit Sunday is at 5724 Bryant Irvin Road.
It’s the first local Fuzzy’s selling those $1.50 tacos online with a safer drive-thru pickup window, a new addition.
“It’s something that we never utilized at that location before, but the pandemic has given us a reason to test it,” Knight wrote.
Drive-thru windows, takeout and curbside service are the future for restaurants, along with social-media marketing campaigns and family dinner packs.
The original Fort Worth location, 2917 W. Berry St., is showing its age.
When it opened in 2001 before 9-11, the Star-Telegram praised the “sensational, cheap food, including the fish and brisket tacos, enchilada plates and breakfast chilaquiles at an “Austin-style slacker hangout.”
It was not until 2010 that Fuzzy’s started celebrating National Taco Day. Back then, the tacos were $1 for dine-in only, so $1.50 takeout tacos are still a good deal.
Credit for the idea of National Taco Day belongs to the California-based Del Taco chain, which held one in 2009 but didn’t stick with it.
But San Antonio restaurants and the Austin-based Chuy’s chain held earlier Taco Day celebrations in springtime.
More chain restaurant offering National Taco Day specials (although if you can, please support the corner taqueria):
▪ The Austin-based Chuy’s Tex-Mex restaurants offer crispy tacos Sunday as a $1 side for dine-in only.
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▪ Dallas-based On the Border offers $2 beef or chipotle chicken tacos, $4 brisket or Southwest mesquite chicken, all for diine-in only.
▪ In Fort Worth, Blue Mesa Grill offers a taco takeout family pack or six people for $55 all weekend, including beef-chorizo, grilled chicken and barbecued pulled pork tacos.
▪ The Toro Toro Pan Latin Steakhouse in downtown Fort Worth will serve its classic carne asada street tacos with pickled chiles and cilantro all for the $8 happy hour price.
(This is not to be confused with Taco Tuesday, which started in the 1950s at Southern California burger drive-ins and spread to restaurants, school cafeterias and everywhere tacos are sold.)
This story was originally published September 29, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
