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Reviewer: Jason
Total Reviews: 1005
Reviewed: 6/24/2007
Rating: 7
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I can save you 5 minutes of your time. Do you like Taco Bell? If no, stop reading. Yes, well your just in luck to find out Taco Bravo serves Taco Bell menu items with better ingredients. In keeping up with the spirit of budget conscience meals, we thought what a better way to celebrate #900 with a meal that would cost under $5.
Joining us was Campbell local Sean, our Yahoo friend Jarrod, Fremont Terry, and myself. Out of the 4 of us, Terry is probably the most familiar with Taco Bravo. It's his guiltiest pleasure and won't deny it. Jarrod was buying lunch and I let him pick out my meal.
Taco Bravo is housed under a spanish theme building that closely resembles the old Taco Bells in the 80s but without the bell housing. Go figure? We took up an outdoor table under what felt like 90 degree weather.
Jarrod hands me 2 wrappers. One was a super taco and the other a spicy super combo burrito.
super taco (image 10) - if you look closely, you'll noticed its double shelled. The had a breech in the main hull and snuck in another corn shell. The ingredients are beef, sour cream, lettuce, olives, and cheese. If you like Taco Bells taco, the Taco Bravo version blows it out of the water. This is coming from someone who enjoys Taco Bell and cough...ate it the night before...cough. The meat is much juicier and has much better flavor than the boiled down version. The f*ing cheese! They use the real shredded cheese. Taco Bell uses that weak ass low fat wax cheese now. Much respect for Taco Bravo in keeping it real. Be sure to use the hot sauce (image 4).
spicy super combo burrito (image 8,9) - Picture 9 actually shows you the pain involved in eating this greasy SOB. Yes, the shiny stuff on the tortilla is oil from the cheese and beef. They were somewhat stingy on the beans yet they had this tasty salsa verde. Like the ingredients from the taco, the burrito excelled over Taco Bell.
If I had to choose Taco Bravo over Taco Bell, 9 times out of 10, I'd pick Taco Bravo. If you're wondering why only 9 times, it's because there's always that 1 time where I have to order the nuclear nacho cheese on the nachos supreme. I would come back if I was in the area and had a craving for this type of food. Keep in mind, the food is greasy but I guess you already knew it since it's in our fast food cuisine category.
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Reviewer: Terry
Total Reviews: 735
Reviewed: 6/24/2007
Rating: 7
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I am a fan of Taco Bravo in Fremont. Its cheap, fast, good food. Its not winning any awards at all, but its a notch above Taco Bell, and uses very similar ingredients. For what it is, it cannot be beat. I am happy to report that the Campbell location is every bit the same as the Fremont one, except its a bit larger operation. It feels less open to the elements, so a notch less dangerous in the food safety department. So I am bumping up the score a bit for that.
I went with my standard Super Veggie burrito and it was pleasing as usual. Agent Jarrod joined us today and he clued me in to the large portions of hot sauce. I was always getting the normal smaller sized ones in Fremont, and going thru 3 or 4 of them. This one large container hits the spot perfectly.
I also went for a Choco Taco just because I saw an ad in the window for it. Jarrod mentioned it to the guy behind the counter (since Jarrod was ordering for us) and the guy replied that they don't call it the Choco Taco. ooookay. But I ended up getting what I wanted so no complaints. Well, it wasn't that hot, but for under $2, it was decent enough dessert. Kids would probably enjoy it.
All in all, Taco Bravo made a good #900 for Jatbar. There were no surprises as far as I was concerned. Just a cheap guilty-pleasure meal.
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Reviewer: wchane
Total Reviews: 146
Reviewed: 9/6/2007
Rating: 8.5
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Hah...wow...it was just my luck I ended up here late last night. After wondering around the Pruneyard for a late night bite we ended up strolling across to Taco Bravo. This old thinly masked Taco Bell building was awesome, by 'awesome' I don't mean in a four michelin stars way but what bill and ted refers to as 'excellent!'
I basked under the flourscent lights mounted to the awning for a bit then looked around at my surroundings, questioning our choice and wondering if we were safer next door at the big w hot dog joint. The big dood behind the window asked what I was having, still a bit dazed I settled on the tostada. He barked, "No." Then smiled. I knew this was going to be a good time. The counter was grimy, the tile grout had stuff growing in it and you can see the same guy who took your order makes the food in the assembly area right behind him. This is definitely the sketchiest place I've dined at in quite some time.
I paid my $3.13 and walked away with this lump of mexican ingredients called a tostada, hot sauce, a STACK of napkins (he gave it to me like that, probably 9 or 10 deep) and a spork (yes, a spork..oOooOoo!!!). I sat down and unwrapped this monstrosity, holy hell this thing looked nuts. piled up with fried tortilla shells, refried beans, mystery meat, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, olives, cheese, and i'm sure i'm missing a few things.
How'd it taste? Exactly what you'd expect. I guess that's a good thing, as I don't recommend coming here nightly. It reminded me of the old taco bell taco salads, you know the big one served in the edible shell? Yum. I couldn't finish the whole thing, too many thoughts were going through my head and I kept laughing at just how awesome this place was.
Next time I'm going for the tacos. If there is a next time that is...
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