Tacobee's — Restaurant in Philadelphia

While scrolling on Instagram, a post came up on my feed about the Grand Opening of this place for today(Saturday). It's a Brooklyn-based spot and this is it's first location opening outside of NYC. With them having a special of a free bowl for every customer, I figured why not check it out.

As you drive by and walked up, hard to miss it since they had music playing and balloons to signal it's opening. Got in there and saw the DJ to my left - the music selection was good. This spot is a pretty decent size and setup of your typical fast-casual restaurants - large windows letting a ton of light in, wooden/metal tables either booth style or high tops. There was a line but they had a really good process going, so it only took me maybe 5 or 6 minutes to get up to order.

They have the line setup for you to make your selections easy - similar to a Chipotle, Qdoba or Naf Naf. Since they were offering a Grand Opening special for their bowls, I got that. I chose mexican rice as my base with black beans and topped it with half grilled chicken/half chipotle chicken, romaine lettuce, corn salsa and pico, guacamole, cheese and chipotle sauce. When I got back to try it, I was pleased with it. Food tasted pretty fresh, tasty and they gave good servings of everything.

A more local fast casual restaurant to consider in the city. I would go back to try on a normal day and see what other...

Not great. This place belongs in a whitewashed suburb where there are no authentic ethnic cuisines available, so the people don't know any better.

I got the chicken Birria tacos... They were ok, not great... nothing special, but I had to ask for onions and cilantro, which is weird, and the taco stained my hands yellow. 🤔 Also, they gave me red onions .. what authentic Mexican taqueria have you been to that doesn't have white onions? Not a big deal, just weird.

And they didn't have tres leches cake, despite it being on the menu. Cashier didn't even know what I was talking about and made me repeat it twice, before telling me they don't have any desserts except churros.

They do have Jarritos, which was the high point of my visit and some good flavors... I wish I'd bought at least three of them. Lol

I'll take it over Chipotle for sure, but Qdoba is much better if we're purposely doing chain Mexican.

$14 for three tacos, if you're looking for the price points, and the food is halal.

The tables were not clean (weird that I had to clean my own table to sit down and eat when there were only four customers in the store, and I saw at least six staff) but not disgusting, and there is no vibe whatsoever. The bathroom had a wet/muddy floor around the toilet, but...

First time and I must say that it was very clean inside with a very nice atmosphere. Customer service definitely could have been better I felt a little rushed and when I asked questions about the menu because of the language barrier it seemed it was hard to understand.

The one serving us was rushing us and more concerned about everything else other than our order. Didn't feel that they gave me the great customer service experience however we still wanted to try. Pictures are below. Food was similar to Chipotle. The disappointment was that I got the plain chicken and it was very peppery to the point that it was a little on the spicy side and it wasn't even spicy chicken. Not sure if I knew how to order well but when I got the tacos they were like $12.99 for three however at the register it was a lot more. I got the chips and guac. The chips taste like store-bought and the guacamole was way too salty.

What I...