| ambiance |
88.88999938964844% positive |
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This place is not about atmosphere or service - it's the food, stupid. ”
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We love this place, as well as the location on Howell Mill, and the grand-daddy, Sundown Cafe on Cheshire Bridge, with Sargent George and the crew. ”
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even enjoy the industrial decor, it works. ”
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Good food, terible atmosphere and service ”
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The sparse clean atmosphere allows a diner to think of only the food. ”
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found the service and atmosphere friendly. ”
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Good food is not worth the stress of that atmosphere. ”
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will go back because the food is good, but not as often as I probably would because it just isn't as much fun as it should be. ”
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This place could be so much fun. ”
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| dessert |
100.0% positive |
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love their Enchiladas with red chilli or lemon cream, their soup, tacos, cheese dip, salsa, chips. ”
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| drinks |
75.0% positive |
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Good beer selection, yummy margaritas and friendly, efficient staff at both locations. ”
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The menu is very limited (at least for lunch), the staff is VERY unfriendly, and no fountain drinks--overpriced can's only. ”
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God forbid you even order a 2nd drink- they might just bust you in the face! ”
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But if you are looking for great food and drink with friends, you'll love it. ”
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| food quality |
86.6100025177002% positive |
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If you want great, healthy, cheap take out or fast food, come here! ”
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After you order your food, you are allowed to finally sit down! ”
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usually prefer to get takeout and make the short drive home to enjoy the food. ”
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Good food is not worth the stress of that atmosphere. ”
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Best fish tacos and kickin' margaritas! ”
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Once, when I seated my grandmother at one of the 8 open tables, placing her walker to the side, I left to stand in line to order our food. ”
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But if you are looking for great food and drink with friends, you'll love it. ”
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El Taco Veloz has better more authentic food and great service. ”
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They act as if they are a high priced restaurant, but you stand in line to order your food (just like McDonalds). ”
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Believe it or not, there is a restaurant with full service that sells their chef's recipes including fish tacos and their poblano corn chowder and you get really good table service. ”
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They have the best frozen margaritas and the food is always worth the wait, you won't be disappointed. ”
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Tacos, tasty, varied, $2 each! ”
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The only thing authentic was my disgust. ”
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The food really is good. ”
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love their Enchiladas with red chilli or lemon cream, their soup, tacos, cheese dip, salsa, chips. ”
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This place is not about atmosphere or service - it's the food, stupid. ”
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Good beer selection, yummy margaritas and friendly, efficient staff at both locations. ”
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O.K. the food is good but it takes ten bucks worth of their food at lunch to fill me up. ”
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The food is not good enough to endure the horrible staff. ”
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The food is pretty good, but the horrible, rude service far outweighs any benefits. ”
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The food is good, but not worth the trouble to get it. ”
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Probably some of the best tacos I've ever had, not to mention the great variety. ”
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You order your food in the line. ”
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Great cheap food ”
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Best tacos EVER, unique flavors. ”
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The price is great, the food is great, the margaritas are great. ”
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the beans were not remotely spicy despite rude cashiers response.) ”
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The sparse clean atmosphere allows a diner to think of only the food. ”
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will go back because the food is good, but not as often as I probably would because it just isn't as much fun as it should be. ”
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The food is phenomenal & the prices are very reasonable. ”
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preferred the fresh tomato salsa over the tomatillo or roasted tomato. ”
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The food is excellent, very authentic and inexpensive. ”
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The Taqueria is in a great space with good food and better margaritas. ”
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The food here really is superb - I recommend the shrimp and corn chowder, the fried chicken tacos and the fish tacos. ”
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call the manager to the table, informed him of what just happened, and offered to pay for any misunderstanding (I'm looking to enjoy my meal not a negative ordeal). ”
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Best fish tacos ever! ”
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and kids love tacos. ”
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The food is consistently great and the prices can't be beat for the quality. ”
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First of all, the food here is great! ”
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Any of the tacos are good. ”
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The fish tacos are my favorite. ”
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The food wasn't even that good for all the hassle. ”
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Fish tacos are best in Atlanta. ”
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On Fri and Sat nights it's Yuppie central with lots of the hip crowd's precious little monsters running in and out the front doors and weaving their way between the long, long line of people waiting to order their food. ”
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All the food here is really great, but a few standouts deserve particular mention - the little side orders of greens are uniquely spiced and delicious and the fish tacos are the best around. ”
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can only explain this place's popularity as a successful psychological manipulation - making people think that if the lines are long and customers put up with abuse, the food must be good and the place is worth it. ”
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The food is decent. ”
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Good food, terible atmosphere and service ”
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The wait in line is a time to talk with the folks you came with and to look around (generally see someone we know), the food is good (not great), well the corn chowder is wonderful, but it is all well worth the $ and the margaritas have a good kick to the ”
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Get a great marg, salsa trio, and wait on that satisfying order. ”
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The beans were excellent, as good as what I used to get when I lived in Texas. ”
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The beef brisket enchiladas and the beef brisket tacos are great, but the fish tacos are FABULOUS! ”
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That said, the food is excellent, and the margaritas are some of the best in town. ”
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agree with other reviews - the food is always fresh and delicious. ”
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Great new place for Decatur, best cheap food to be had. ”
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Enough has been written about the food - the tacos are, of course, great (fish taco is always rated among the best in the city) & they have some really good specials that are worth a try. ”
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Great food but this place is THE MOST kid unfriendly place we have ever visited. ”
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thought people were insane when they recommended this place because of their fish tacos. ”
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Overall, the tasty tacos and cheaps tabs outweigh the other negatives. ”
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The chips were fresh and not greasy. ”
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Great food; Terrible service ”
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| menu variety |
50.0% positive |
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Good beer selection, yummy margaritas and friendly, efficient staff at both locations. ”
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Probably some of the best tacos I've ever had, not to mention the great variety. ”
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The menu is very limited (at least for lunch), the staff is VERY unfriendly, and no fountain drinks--overpriced can's only. ”
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Excellent, yet also sparse menu of well pared unique combinations. ”
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| overall |
100.0% positive |
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can only explain this place's popularity as a successful psychological manipulation - making people think that if the lines are long and customers put up with abuse, the food must be good and the place is worth it. ”
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The line was out the door so we figured we arrived at a good place. ”
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I'm not a rule breaker and some rules are good, but come on, its ridiculous at this place! ”
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tried to make Taqueria a favorite restaurant of mine, but with each visit Taqueria became more and more a place that I disliked. ”
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Also don't think it's a good place for Saturday afternoon maragitas. ”
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| return potential |
50.0% positive |
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The customer service is so bad I will never go back (and that's after we gave them too many chances to improve). ”
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will go back because the food is good, but not as often as I probably would because it just isn't as much fun as it should be. ”
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| service |
48.64999771118164% positive |
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The service is fast, the prices are fair and the fo. ”
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Good beer selection, yummy margaritas and friendly, efficient staff at both locations. ”
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The menu is very limited (at least for lunch), the staff is VERY unfriendly, and no fountain drinks--overpriced can's only. ”
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Fast service and great prices. ”
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The staff however are so rude and condesending I really can't believe they stay in business. ”
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Good food, terible atmosphere and service ”
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the beans were not remotely spicy despite rude cashiers response.) ”
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If they are go to the Raging Burrito they have a great patio and a wait staff. ”
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Rude staff ”
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El Taco Veloz has better more authentic food and great service. ”
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can only explain this place's popularity as a successful psychological manipulation - making people think that if the lines are long and customers put up with abuse, the food must be good and the place is worth it. ”
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Taqueria's rude to customers! ”
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The food is not good enough to endure the horrible staff. ”
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In hard times like these you would think patrons would be going out of their way to deliver great service. ”
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The customer service is so bad I will never go back (and that's after we gave them too many chances to improve). ”
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Note to TDS owners/management, your staff rude treatment towards your customers is not warranted. ”
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Staff's rude behavior towards customers is uncalled for ! ”
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call the manager to the table, informed him of what just happened, and offered to pay for any misunderstanding (I'm looking to enjoy my meal not a negative ordeal). ”
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too did not believe other reviewers when I read about issues they had with TDS's staff (feeling that surely there is a reasonable explination. ”
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Great food; Terrible service ”
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It was a huge scene and we couldn't believe how rude the guy was. ”
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don't think a smile and friendly demeanor are too much to ask for. ”
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having friends to talk to would make the line wait shorter and provide "defense in numbers" against the sometimes notoriously rude staff. ”
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thought people were insane when they recommended this place because of their fish tacos. ”
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The problem is the ordering/seating/push to get people out the door mode of operation has evidently turned the staff into very cynical, rude folks who don't even try to accommodate their guests. ”
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On Fri and Sat nights it's Yuppie central with lots of the hip crowd's precious little monsters running in and out the front doors and weaving their way between the long, long line of people waiting to order their food. ”
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rude attendants ”
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Taco Nazis- rudest staff ever RUDE RUDE RUDE ”
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This causes the bottle neck which leads to the lines, which I personally think Taqueria uses as advertisement (passers-by see a long line of people naturally think somethin' must be good over there). ”
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If you don't mind consistently rude wait staff and a 25-40 minute wait, you can get a good cheap taco. ”
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We got such terrible and unjustified treatment here from the manager (as a group of people of color) that we thought the place might be run by bigots. ”
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The food is pretty good, but the horrible, rude service far outweighs any benefits. ”
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am not sure what all the complaining is about in relation to bad service. ”
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This place is not about atmosphere or service - it's the food, stupid. ”
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However, the service was HORRIBLE! ”
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Believe it or not, there is a restaurant with full service that sells their chef's recipes including fish tacos and their poblano corn chowder and you get really good table service. ”
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found the service and atmosphere friendly. ”
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| value |
87.11999893188477% positive |
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Enough has been written about the food - the tacos are, of course, great (fish taco is always rated among the best in the city) & they have some really good specials that are worth a try. ”
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The food is phenomenal & the prices are very reasonable. ”
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Fast service and great prices. ”
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O.K. the food is good but it takes ten bucks worth of their food at lunch to fill me up. ”
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Really solid and and excellent value. ”
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The food is excellent, very authentic and inexpensive. ”
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The food is consistently great and the prices can't be beat for the quality. ”
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They have the best frozen margaritas and the food is always worth the wait, you won't be disappointed. ”
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The wait in line is a time to talk with the folks you came with and to look around (generally see someone we know), the food is good (not great), well the corn chowder is wonderful, but it is all well worth the $ and the margaritas have a good kick to the ”
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The price is great, the food is great, the margaritas are great. ”
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Great cheap food ”
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It was a huge scene and we couldn't believe how rude the guy was. ”
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Always seems like lots of kids there, probably cuz of the great value. ”
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If you don't mind consistently rude wait staff and a 25-40 minute wait, you can get a good cheap taco. ”
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can only explain this place's popularity as a successful psychological manipulation - making people think that if the lines are long and customers put up with abuse, the food must be good and the place is worth it. ”
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it's like he's doing you a huge favor and requests get ignored anyway. ”
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Great new place for Decatur, best cheap food to be had. ”
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The menu is very limited (at least for lunch), the staff is VERY unfriendly, and no fountain drinks--overpriced can's only. ”
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The food is good, but not worth the trouble to get it. ”
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Good food is not worth the stress of that atmosphere. ”
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The service is fast, the prices are fair and the fo. ”
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If you want great, healthy, cheap take out or fast food, come here! ”
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| wait time |
95.2400016784668% positive |
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On Fri and Sat nights it's Yuppie central with lots of the hip crowd's precious little monsters running in and out the front doors and weaving their way between the long, long line of people waiting to order their food. ”
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It is a fantastic place to grab a quick bite to eat. ”
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If you don't mind consistently rude wait staff and a 25-40 minute wait, you can get a good cheap taco. ”
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The line is usually a bit long, but nothing a good margarita won't fix. ”
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They will stay in business only as long as customers like myself keep coming and are willing to tolerate their behavior. ”
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This causes the bottle neck which leads to the lines, which I personally think Taqueria uses as advertisement (passers-by see a long line of people naturally think somethin' must be good over there). ”
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can only explain this place's popularity as a successful psychological manipulation - making people think that if the lines are long and customers put up with abuse, the food must be good and the place is worth it. ”
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