Vatos Tacos + Tequila — Restaurant in Fort Collins

Cool concept. MARK MISSED. Any restaurant you go to has the culture and theme happening with the matching cuisine. Vatos Tacos if I'm not mistaken is all about street Tacos. Without making you read too much more without getting the gist, the words "there are reservations for these tables" and "street tacos" ... do not ever belong in the same breath. If you disagree, then you don't know the culture of which street tacos originate. For a business to allocate 5 of their tables to your party on your behalf is not representative of the culture in which people pull up a chair, order their tacos, eat and resume their day. - I sat my drink down while putting my wallet back in my pocket ($42 for 6 street tacos, happy hour marg, full price marg). Another miss but not an isolated one lol. Street tacos are cute so that apparently justifies a high price. Anyway, before I could get my lifeless hand out of my pocket, I'm told "do you mind moving to that other side, we are reserving these tables for a party." Lol somewhere in Mexico, Pepe is telling his working class customer base in Spanish, "Lo siento, the Duponts are taking up these 8 broken stools... do you mind taking your well beverage to the back seating area?!" - 5 min goes by of me literally sweating question marks out of my skin. WTF is happening where your tables only seat 2 and you hold enough for 10 people!!?? Then I overhear the explanation, "there's this group that goes for a run and they come here every week so we hold these tables for them. Normally we don't take reservations." Somewhere Pepe is like, "damn I need to meet some more money-spending runners instead of all these hard-working middle class price-conscious folks who prefer processed mais and subpar quality pork!" ... - This is my experience. Even after I tried to accept this whole logic, while hearing on the speakers on the patio, "motherfkr, motherfkr, motherfkr" (I wish I was even remotely exaggerating or kidding or delusional or under the influence. A song literally came on where that's all that was said for the first few seconds in a space where kids are running around, people are meeting for business, nana hasn't seen little Jimmy since he graduated maybe!!?? Even after all that, I asked myself, "well how was the food?" ... my answer: Minus the bossy unprofessional red headed long-haired dude that looked like a gorgeous Jody Foster when she made magic with Anthony Hopkins the first time.... "eh" - why? Because there is nothing gourmet about street tacos. That's the best part!!! They're amazing by way of very little and yet you still try to add Mango and charge 3.50 for something that is all of two bites. That's like adding truffles to Ramen! Stop it right now! Respect the culture! Quit using dry corn and stop calling it Carne Asada tacos when there's more onion than meat in it. Call it a red onion taco... with a steak infusion, bro. Anyway, if you don't mind your kid hearing a bunch of profanity and you don't mind being served overly glamorized yet subpar finger-food for more money than somebody should ever pay... then stop in to Vatos Tacos!! Lol. They'll take care of you. (While I was writing this, a staff member watched this dude use a chair from a dining table to change his socks. Hand to God I'm not kidding. Barefoot... all on Yabba-Dabba-Doo status right in the middle of people eating. Was told nothing by Jodi. Yes I'm upset lol. Feet!! The only corns I requested were roasted and in my taco, man!! Disgusting. (One more thing, it took me a while to write this review. I'm a writer! Did you have fun? Get grossed out a little? By the time I finished, the "runners" were still not at their reserved spots. Seating all around this place with its communal value and yet they wouldn't let people sit at the tables where this amazing exception had...

Walked into the location at The Exchange. I have been meaning to go here for a while as I’ve been craving tacos. I usually go to Uno Mas or Los Comales, and I’ve been to the location in Loveland. Upon walking in I just didn’t get that welcome feeling or greeting. The cashier looked at me then walked back behind the cash register and stood there. No welcome, no anything. I guess after I’ve opened two hotels and a restaurant, I have different expectations of what a genuine welcome should be. Anyhoo, I ordered. Their internet went down so my payments wouldn’t process and the gentleman snagged my card from the cashiers hand and proceeded to do what he needed to do to fix the issue. It was an awkward moment. I understand these things happen and it can be stressful for a manager and staff, but at least look at your customer and offer an apology on the wait/inconvenience. When it came time to eat, I ordered the chicken taco salad for $8.50. It came with a little plastic ramekin of small tortilla strips and I mean small. They totally get lost in the salad that it becomes less taco and more everything else. Flavor was awesome though. I also ordered a Carnita and a Chorizo Mango taco, both $2.50 each. I know how street tacos work and you can’t expect them to really stay together as you are eating them. They are both stuffed with ingredients that overpowers the corn tortilla, which got kinda soggy, that I just ended up dumping everything into the container and eating it all with a fork while eating the tortilla separately lol. Again, Ingredients were super flavorful and the Chorizo Mango was delicious. Not too pleased with the price point of the tacos or the salad. I was still hungry after all that, so I got an appetizer over at CopperMuse. Lots of competition in town. It will definitely take me some time to...

Went there yesterday because we have been wanting to try it for a while. Ordered our food. there were 3 of us. I got chicken nachos, my daughter got 2 street tacos and my husband a smothered burrito, with 3 sodas and some chips and queso. $45. Ok fine...went to pick up our food. The nachos were literally 8 tortilla chips..what? thats it? Thats almost $1 per chip. that is insane. and in the middle they tried to make it seem bigger by putting some shredded (yellow and brown lettuce) and some pico, and guac. Very disappointed and still very hungry. my daughters street tacos were so small, like 3 inches wide. what? smallest street tacos I had ever seen. my husbands burrito was a "ok" size but for the price I thought it should of been bigger. and the chips and queso...it was thick almost like paste and they didn't even fill the to go container all the way. Even though the food tasted ok, what we got for the price was terrible. You need way bigger portions. We ended up going to another place to eat because we were still hungry. We...