this place leaves their system on and still takes orders after they are closed only so you can drive all the way over here and find out they didn't never make it even though they're open sign is on and they'll just tell you they're closed
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Chandra Retino
Gustavo went above and beyond to make things right. Thank you for your attenativeness and being so quick to act. He made our Christmas breakfast so special !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Narbeh M.
So sad to write this, because when I lived in LA this was one of my favorite taco spots, but wow, things have gone downhill since I moved.
Look at these embarrassing tacos. They’re less than HALF the portion of meat of what they used to serve. It felt like I was eating a chewy tortilla with onion and bland salsa. Adding mushrooms was 75cents extra and I got literally four slices on each taco. On top of the tiny portions, the meat was also chewy, fatty and cold. The flavor was just not there either.
I really am sad this place has chosen shrinkflation and sacrificed the quality that made them so successful and enjoyable in the past. I recommend you go support one of LA’s many other incredible taco stands and trucks and support those immigrant businesses rather than whatever Tacos 1986 thinks it is these days. Sadly, I’m never coming back when visiting LA again.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Gilberto Orozco
Great food, love the tacos, fresh made tortillas, and their beans taste “echos en hoya”. Very pleased and will be my go to when I’m vacationing at universal.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos De Carne Asada
Candelario Calderon
Great value for the price. They always come in clutch
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Burrito Bowl
Stephanie
Great food and great service! We came for the SpongeBob collab, everything was clean and plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. The guacamole is 10/10. No cash fyi
Nick Watson
Store refused to honor a deal they offered through Uber eats, and told me to “re-order”. I had to have Uber eats cancel it for me as the store would not. After this experience, and some gross chewy pork the last time we ate here, I’ll never be ordering from Tacos 1986 again. Steer clear of the Burbank location.
Service: 1
Matthew Guile
We ordered 2 Taco platters through DoorDash. It took over an hour for this location to complete our order. A worker called to notify us that they did not have cucumbers nor any chicken so they would substitute with mushrooms. When our order FINALLY arrived there was no steak (which was protein we ordered for both platters) but instead pork and mushrooms, no beans, and no salsa verde. The service was atrocious!! We paid $150 for these two platters- we have tried to reach managers to complain. Much better service and competent staff at Sherman Oaks and Santa Monica location. This Burbank location is incompetent.
Food: 1
Service: 1
nathan g
Fast service, delicious food, friendly staff, have only had good times eating here
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Carmen Sanner
Ever since I discovered this taco shop, it has always been our to go when we travel to the area. Food is fresh and the salsas too. So delicious ?
Flour tortilla comes the same size as a small corn tortilla. The cheese is bare minimum and the chicken is a spread. They said its TJ style...lol.
Food: 1
Tiger
The tacos were terrible and too expensive, so disappointing.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
Lyndsi Zapata
The day of our wedding went well for the exception of our primary catering, Tacos 1986.
Unfortunately, our exceptions were far from met. According to our wedding coordinator, she said that when she couldn't get a hold of anyone, and when she finally got on the phone with someone, that the information she received was that our wedding wasn’t in Tacos 1986's calendar, as all attention and/or staff was at Coachella.
Per our correspondence and invoice with their team, we understood that someone was to arrive 30-60 minutes before our time of service, which would have been sometime between 5pm - 5:30pm for a 6pm dinner. Unfortunately, arrival was 6:15pm, and dinner wasn’t served until 6:45pm.
My grandmother (who is diabetic— another reason the late arrival was such a problem) was one of the first people served around 6:45pm, and she had cold beans. Not even warm food for the first guests served. This was pretty embarrassing, especially the day of our wedding.
Due to this late dinner start, this impacted the remainder of the evening's schedule, which impacted not just our guests, but also our staff and other hired vendor’s meal schedules.
And because schedules for staff and vendors had to be rearranged, we then had to compensate for other’s overtime; this included chair and linens rental pick up time, our DJ staying later, photographer and videographer’s overtime charges, all have piled up over the last few weeks, all totaling over $1,000. Dinner being served so late and so slowly impacted our entire wedding schedule.
All of this in addition to all this, Tacos 1986 caused us the most stress regarding a COI that was only filled out correctly with only 2 days prior to our wedding.
My husband and I love Tacos 1986, and their food at their in-person locations, but the day-of catering experience was far from what we expected, and we were beyond disappointed.
Upon emailing our disappointment, we haven't received a response. Hopefully nobody else has to go through what we experienced.
If you're looking for dependable catering for tacos on an important event or date, Tacos 1986 is unfortunately better off skipped or cross off your list.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
Jorde Durden
Combo was not a combo, it's just three of the same Taco and nothing else, no sides, no drink. Food was ok. Nothing special. $12 for 3 tacos not really a good deal either. I recommend go to Taco Manzano they have affordable tacos and the combos are combos.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 2
Alexandria Llamas
You will lose customers every single day you don’t accept cash. Get a security guard, or get better cash registers. Do whatever you need to do.
this place leaves their system on and still takes orders after they are closed only so you can drive all the way over here and find out they didn't never make it even though they're open sign is on and they'll just tell you they're closed
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Gustavo went above and beyond to make things right. Thank you for your attenativeness and being so quick to act. He made our Christmas breakfast so special !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
So sad to write this, because when I lived in LA this was one of my favorite taco spots, but wow, things have gone downhill since I moved.
Look at these embarrassing tacos. They’re less than HALF the portion of meat of what they used to serve. It felt like I was eating a chewy tortilla with onion and bland salsa. Adding mushrooms was 75cents extra and I got literally four slices on each taco. On top of the tiny portions, the meat was also chewy, fatty and cold. The flavor was just not there either.
I really am sad this place has chosen shrinkflation and sacrificed the quality that made them so successful and enjoyable in the past. I recommend you go support one of LA’s many other incredible taco stands and trucks and support those immigrant businesses rather than whatever Tacos 1986 thinks it is these days. Sadly, I’m never coming back when visiting LA again.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Great food, love the tacos, fresh made tortillas, and their beans taste “echos en hoya”. Very pleased and will be my go to when I’m vacationing at universal.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos De Carne Asada
Great value for the price. They always come in clutch
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Burrito Bowl
Great food and great service! We came for the SpongeBob collab, everything was clean and plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. The guacamole is 10/10. No cash fyi
Store refused to honor a deal they offered through Uber eats, and told me to “re-order”. I had to have Uber eats cancel it for me as the store would not. After this experience, and some gross chewy pork the last time we ate here, I’ll never be ordering from Tacos 1986 again. Steer clear of the Burbank location.
Service: 1
We ordered 2 Taco platters through DoorDash. It took over an hour for this location to complete our order. A worker called to notify us that they did not have cucumbers nor any chicken so they would substitute with mushrooms. When our order FINALLY arrived there was no steak (which was protein we ordered for both platters) but instead pork and mushrooms, no beans, and no salsa verde. The service was atrocious!! We paid $150 for these two platters- we have tried to reach managers to complain. Much better service and competent staff at Sherman Oaks and Santa Monica location. This Burbank location is incompetent.
Food: 1
Service: 1
Fast service, delicious food, friendly staff, have only had good times eating here
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ever since I discovered this taco shop, it has always been our to go when we travel to the area. Food is fresh and the salsas too. So delicious ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Flour tortilla comes the same size as a small corn tortilla. The cheese is bare minimum and the chicken is a spread. They said its TJ style...lol.
Food: 1
The tacos were terrible and too expensive, so disappointing.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
The day of our wedding went well for the exception of our primary catering, Tacos 1986.
Unfortunately, our exceptions were far from met. According to our wedding coordinator, she said that when she couldn't get a hold of anyone, and when she finally got on the phone with someone, that the information she received was that our wedding wasn’t in Tacos 1986's calendar, as all attention and/or staff was at Coachella.
Per our correspondence and invoice with their team, we understood that someone was to arrive 30-60 minutes before our time of service, which would have been sometime between 5pm - 5:30pm for a 6pm dinner. Unfortunately, arrival was 6:15pm, and dinner wasn’t served until 6:45pm.
My grandmother (who is diabetic— another reason the late arrival was such a problem) was one of the first people served around 6:45pm, and she had cold beans. Not even warm food for the first guests served. This was pretty embarrassing, especially the day of our wedding.
Due to this late dinner start, this impacted the remainder of the evening's schedule, which impacted not just our guests, but also our staff and other hired vendor’s meal schedules.
And because schedules for staff and vendors had to be rearranged, we then had to compensate for other’s overtime; this included chair and linens rental pick up time, our DJ staying later, photographer and videographer’s overtime charges, all have piled up over the last few weeks, all totaling over $1,000. Dinner being served so late and so slowly impacted our entire wedding schedule.
All of this in addition to all this, Tacos 1986 caused us the most stress regarding a COI that was only filled out correctly with only 2 days prior to our wedding.
My husband and I love Tacos 1986, and their food at their in-person locations, but the day-of catering experience was far from what we expected, and we were beyond disappointed.
Upon emailing our disappointment, we haven't received a response. Hopefully nobody else has to go through what we experienced.
If you're looking for dependable catering for tacos on an important event or date, Tacos 1986 is unfortunately better off skipped or cross off your list.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
Combo was not a combo, it's just three of the same Taco and nothing else, no sides, no drink. Food was ok. Nothing special. $12 for 3 tacos not really a good deal either. I recommend go to Taco Manzano they have affordable tacos and the combos are combos.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 2
You will lose customers every single day you don’t accept cash. Get a security guard, or get better cash registers. Do whatever you need to do.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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