Crush Taco — Restaurant in Frisco

My first impression when walking in was it was very clean and streamlined. It is counter service and they have a cooler with various Jarritos drinks, Mexican Coke, and beer. Don't count on getting Dr Pepper here. When we walked up to order I told the young man we had never been there before. I was a bit surprised at his nodding and hesitation to welcome us and explain the menu. He did eventually explain it, but we were not told about fan favorites or given a suggestion of what to order. Thankfully we are an adventurous, foodie family or we would have been doomed to peruse the menu aimlessly. We ended up ordering chips and queso, 2 Falafel tacos, 2 Buffalo Chicken tacos, 2 Slow Cooked Brisket tacos, a Chipotle Chicken and a Braised Beef taco. We are a family of 4 with an endless stomach teenager and another who takes tiny bites for posterity. I'm not going to lie, the $50+ price tag at the end of our order had raised not one, but both of my eyebrows, but I kept my mind open.

The chips and queso came out first. The chips were very crunchy and not too salty. The queso had a dollop of guacamole, a swish of hot sauce and what looked like a sprinkle of chili powder. It was thick and tasted strongly of velveeta white cheese. Quite disappointing given the $9 price tag. Our tacos came out on stands and we were provided no plates or any advice on how we were to eat them without getting any food all over ourselves, the table or the floor. I looked around after picking up my taco, housed in brown paper, and spotted little green baskets at the counter. We picked up 4 and began digging in.

I took one bite of Falafel and immediately wanted to spit it out. It had a crunchy exterior and if you've ever had decent Falafel you would've shed a tear, for the Falafel gods cried when this monstrosity was made. I can't even describe the flavor, only that my taste buds immediately rejected the onslaught of horrendous coming from the crunchy, offending ball. My husband spit it out after tasting it, looking at me with wide eyes unbelieving that something so small could taste so wretched. My son refused to even look at his taco after taking a bite.

After several slurps of my alternate brand cream soda (which was delicious) to wash the taste of the offending Falafel off of my sobbing taste buds, I dove into my second taco, the Buffalo Chicken. Upon first bite there was nothing incredible or outstanding about it. The tortilla had the texture and flavor of a generic grocery store tortilla. The chicken was well cooked and was slathered in red hot sauce, like a chicken wing, topped with grated carrot and blue cheese crumble with a ranch sauce that I couldn't taste. I had paid 5 bucks for this taco and by God I was going to eat it. My daughter was enjoying her Chipotle Chicken taco and described it as "really good" and both she and my husband left almost their entire Slow Cooked Brisket tacos, each sitting in their respective baskets with only one bite taken. My son had eaten almost all of his braised beef taco without a word, leaving only what had fallen out of the tortilla in the basket.

Asking about their Brisket tacos, both my husband and my daughter said it tasted "weird" and my husband thought there was sauerkraut in it. Being a native Texan I've grown up knowing good brisket and I was curious to know what it tasted like. I pulled a piece from my husband's taco and was immediately hit with the taste of light vinegar. I wrinkled my nose and told my husband whatever they had marinated this in, it was not good. Another dud on our very expensive tasting tray of tacos.

In the end they substituted my horrible Falafel tacos for an over cooked and overseasoned Chipotle Chicken, which I took two bites out of and guiltily accepted a to go box that ended up in the grocery store garbage bin. Overall they're overpriced for what it is and it left me and my son with an upset stomach. We will not be returning since we know where Frisco's best kept authentic taco...

UPDATE May 2025: We have eaten here a number of times since 2022. Way over due for tacos and so we came back here. Tried new items with rice and another coleslaw. Both very good. Changed out beverage station and replaced flavored fruit drink with iced tea. Much better for me. Usual assortment of cola drinks. UPDATE June 2022: Still great food as we have our favorite taco along with the sweet corn. Yummy. And we have been often enough with their loyalty club to get a $10 gift card. Today's Sat lunch was only spoiled by a full house of kids and parents taking a break from the game for lunch. They were so loud that next time if we see a full house we will go somewhere else. The restaurant's concrete walls/floor and metal ceiling make it very loud. UPDATE Nov 2021: Be a loyalty club member to get buy one get one free taco offer. That brought us back again. Special this month scallop taco. See photos. They have unsweetened tea now. Much better. UPDATE Apr 2021 Back for more with free caso with chips; see photo. Optional for customers to wear masks now. UPDATE Feb 2021. Back for more. We were lucky during Sat lunch as two youth sports teams and parents/coaches showed up for great tacos after us. Back for return visit (Jul 2020) and enjoyed their tacos again. Setup for virus precautions; table separate, wearing masks, etc. We like the shrimp taco best and found a new favorite with the brisket one. Try both next time. OooRah! 1st meal here base on local newspaper recommendation (2019). We got there at peak of weekday lunch hour and lots of customers chowing down. See photos. Great menu and served up fast and hot. Next time we might get one order and split it as there was too much food, which is a good thing. Seating inside limited for...

So I'm a food fanatic. I never do bad reviews but I have to here. I'm Hispanic so I really never zgo to let's say tex-mex places for this reason. I saw their tacos had cheese in them. So I said no cheese on my tacos. I paid about 17 bucks for 3 tacos and a drink which is really pricey for breakfast tacos. I sew on my ticket that they charged for cheese... which I don't really care that much about but that's definitely a no no.. I wanted to make sure tacos didn't have cheese on them so I asked tall white guy worker who handed the food, there's no cheese on the tacos right? He assured me no, so I was like oh OK cause I got charges for cheese... Oh you got charged for the tacos because they come with cheese! He said in a raised voice which was uncalled for. So I said so you charged for cheese even though there's no cheese?... He said no we charged for tacos, because tacos come with cheese!... How you going to tell a Hispanic how tacos are supposed to be made? And how are you charging for stuff you don't put on your food? That's the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard about food. Anyways I just laughed and walked away to write this review. Tacos are mid all the way, nothing special about them. So ibwould never go back to say the least. Go somewhere else where they treat...