Taco Time Northwest is a family-run business headquartered in Renton, Wash. Originally founded by Frank Tonkin Sr. in 1962 the Tonkin family has been instrumental in the management of the company since the beginning. With 79 locations in the Puget Sound region, Taco Time Northwest offers the ultimate quick service experience featuring tacos, burritos and specialty side items prepared fresh daily and made to order.
Established Mexican restaurant serving tacos, crisp burritos & kids’ meals in a casual setting.
Leo
For mexican drive through fast food. This has been my go to for a while. If I want good food and not to feel like shit 30 minutes later,, unless you overeat, of course.. This is the place I go. I love their crisp meat burritos and their new spicy mexy fries are really good but word of warning they are spicy. Don’t forget their delicious taco sauce.
… moreJustin McLaughlin
I visited here on 1/23/26 at around 5:00 PM. The guy who took the order was larger framed with a very hairy beard and no hair net. Not typically what you want to see in food service. I ordered a beef soft taco and a mini beef soft taco. It took much longer than usual even though there was only one other person dining. When my food arrived, I opened the full sized and immediately saw that it was a burrito, not what I ordered. So, I brought it to the same guys attention, and it was obvious that I was inconveniencing him. He argued that all of the soft tacos at taco time look like that, so I opened it up and showed him that it was all meat and cheese with no lettuce, tomato, or sour cream. He told the cooks to make another one, I interjected to also make a mini. He then told me he knew for sure that the mini was a taco. I ate the first one, then opened up the mini which was another burrito. I wasn’t in the mood for another argument from the unsanitary looking guy, so I just ate it. I’ve been eating at TacoTime for over 40 years, I know what to expect. This guy was rude, unsanitary, and he puts his food cost before the guests. I knew the previous owner of this franchise who unfortunately died a few years ago. She did a much better job running the restaurant. I’ll never go there again. I keep thinking of how gross the guy’s appearance was coupled with his very poor customer service skills. It really is too bad.
… moreMyVisit MyView
First time here and we had a great experience. The staff was friendly. We did use the self order kiosk, no problems, easy to use.
We sat, they brought our food out to our table, our order was correct and freshly cooked.
Love their burritos and Mexi-fries. The salsa has Kick to it, love it!
Dining area was clean, large tables, great for groups or families.
… moreJaime López
My experience was horribles I ask to put guacamole sour cream and pico de gallo inside and all the sauce was cap opened and the 1000 island for my salad was al over my plate I use xtra napkins to clean the mes I thought was a joke or prank but this is unacceptable never come to this taco time doesn’t deserve any stars
… moreSophia Ferst
Food was so mediocre and the single soft beef taco I ordered had no sour cream on it at all, but the review is because I ordered corn salsa as a side PAID for it of course and got less than a sixth of the cup full. As we pulled away from the drive through we noticed and didn’t want to go through the huge line again so I went inside. No one would talk to me and I didn’t want to wait in the long ordering line inside for the cup to be filled. So I just left. I took a few bites of my order and threw it away. My last few experiences at Taco Times have been disappointing.
… morePreet
I would give no stars if there is an option. Never coming back. Disgusting food. It used be good but don’t know what changed. Ordered hard dish and chicken n bean taco .. loaded with cheese and oil !!!! Tasteless.may be they are not following the book or rules !!!! What a waste .
… moreGary Schmidt
I enjoy Tacotime, their ingredients are fresh and my go-to is the Fish Bajas and a chicken crisp burrito. The staff at this location was so eager to help, helped make it a good day when we went.
… moreyvette Hawley
Drove to 2 other ‘Mexican food’ places for a taco salad. Simple, right? Not so! Neither place had one (?). Then, I found Taco Time. Taco salad was not elaborate (so if that’s what you are looking for, go to a fancy restaurant), but it was so good. When I eat, I prefer every forkful to have all ingredients for that bite, but that can be difficult, usually. However, I loved how the meat and cheese and tomato were evenly dispersed across the lettuce (and not dumped in one pile like someone used an ice cream scoop to do it).
I drizzled the homemade ranch on top, and it was a perfect bite every time (which pleases this picky eater to no end). Food tasted fresh, lettuce was crunchy, tomato was firm but juicy, and the side of ranch was a good size, not all small and skimpy. I will go back again for sure!
… moreGregory O’Neill
Kind of confused why they decided to change the name of the Mexican fries to tater fries…They don’t taste as good with a bland name.
I imagine it has something to do with them trying to act like the word mexi was somehow racist.
Regardless it is pretty silly.
… moreNellee Blythe
This is hands down the worst Taco Time I’ve ever been to. The bathroom had vomit all over the floor and was clearly not cleaned or maintained at all. The restaurant itself felt dirty and unkept.
The food was completely inedible. Our order was wrong, the burritos weren’t even folded (literally falling apart in the wrapper), and what we were served didn’t even match the descriptions on the menu. Nothing tasted fresh, and the overall quality was just gross.
We’ve been to the Taco Time just a city over and it’s a thousand times better—clean, consistent, and actually edible. This location is the opposite: dirty, careless, and disappointing. Save yourself the trouble and go anywhere else.
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