Taqueria Hidalgo — Restaurant in Burnsville

Foodie friend and I went on a mission a while back for some tacos next to his new place. His Yelp said they had $1 tacos on a certain day.

(Side note, I don't use Yelp, nor do I trust the majority of it's "resources")

We went inside the taqueria/mercado hybrid and from what we could tell, there was no dollar tacos. We asked the counter man for help and he kept saying, "The one in the mall." Even if you use the Yelp app and show him the address and name that we are in the spot listed, he kept saying nope.

Looking online to double check I was beginning to question this place. They showed one location that was in the middle of a residential neighborhood and some prices were inaccurate.

Slightly frustrated we weighed options of leaving vs eating here. I saw buche and yearned for another spot that could maybe do it right. I ordered four tacos: buche, chorizo, cabeza and lengua. While my friend ordered a platter of different tacos.

While I did eat all of mine, none of them were really good, at all. The chorizo felt old and lukewarm, buche tasted like nothing, cabeza was just ok and the lengua made me question finishing it. My friends platter at the end was barely touched and he only took one bite from his lengua and said, "Nope."

With how many tacos are available in the twin cities, you can easily...

Second time we've gone here. Second time being disappointed.

No online ordering because the website they link is broken. It took 3 phone calls to finally reach someone. Ended up being placed on hold and talked to 3 different people before I could place an order. The final price (excluding tax) was 25+% more than what both of their online menus listed.

The food itself left a lot to be desired. The chicken combo plate didn't come with salsa or a salad, as stated on the menu. It was quite literally chicken. Just chopped chicken breast that was overcooked until it was dry as the desert. And a side of rice and beans, with 2 tortillas. If it weren't for the beans, it would have been inedibly dry.

The beef tacos were ground beef, again somehow absolutely incinerated and overcooked. It was some of the most chewy and tough ground beef ive ever had. I genuinely have never had tough ground beef, but somehow they managed it. The tacos had a little bit of cilantro and a few pieces of diced onion mixed in the beef. That's it.

I see all these amazing looking meals in the pictures on here and it honestly feels like the polar opposite of our...

The food was great... When we got it. It took over 30 minutes for two tacos and one burrito. That's unheard of and inexcusable. There was no one ahead of us when we walked in. We were promptly greeted and our order was placed immediately. We ordered our food to stay, thinking it would come up fairly quick. It was just two orders of tacos and one burrito (no sides). We waited over thirty minutes and the food was still not ready. We had to get our own to-go boxes (no one would get us one when we asked) because we couldn't wait any longer. We thought it would be a good sit-down lunch before work. Turned into us having to grab our own boxes and rushing out the door to get to work on time. The food was really good, so, I will give them that. But, do NOT go here if you want a quick lunch. Not sure what they were doing back there, but I can make two tacos and a burrito in WAY less time then they did. Sad. Because the food is good. But I will not visit this place again unless I have two days off because maybe I'll get...