Taco Cabana

My husband and I used to live in San Antonio, TX and ate at Taco Cabana quite a bit. We moved back home to Alabama and found that the closest one to us is in Atlanta. I looked on the Taco Cabana website, though, and it%26#39;s not listed. The address I found for it is 1895 Piedmont Ave Ne. Is this location still open? Or is there another one somewhere close by?

Taco Cabana

Nevermind on it not showing on the Taco Cabana website. I just looked again and found it. I%26#39;m not sure why I didn%26#39;t find it the first time I was searching for it!

Taco Cabana

That location was one of the ones that opened as a Two Pesos, one of a chain that was started by a restauranteur from Houston who had tried to talk the original Taco Cabana owners into partnering with him to take the concept nationwide. When they turned him down, he proceeded to hire former Taco Cabana managers and open copycat versions under the Two Pesos name, with virtually identical menus, decor, etc. The Taco Cabana folks sued and won (twice), in cases that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Eventually Taco Cabana bought out Two Pesos when it ran out of money and converted most of the Two Pesos locations to Taco Cabanas.

Don%26#39;t get your hopes up too high, however. A lot of people I know, even those who loved TC in other places, have nothing good to say about this one.

I think that Taco Cabana is awful. They use poor quality meat, and the food is always greasy. Despite my attempts to assure him that it was nothing like the original, a friend from Houston insisted that we eat there recently. He was disappointed.

It seems like I had read something about the whole Two Pesos/Taco Cabana thing. I didn%26#39;t realize this was one of those locations. Thanks for the info.

When we lived in San Antonio, we ate at T.C. quite a bit. Those places are like drug stores here. One on every corner. It was really good food, so I%26#39;m disappointed that the one in Atl. isn%26#39;t like what we%26#39;re used to. At least from the sound of it. Either way, thanks for replying. We may just skip this one on our next trip.

There is another place nearby on Cheshire Bridge called Las Margaritas, that has all kinds of latin food. We had a good experience there- food, drinks and service all were fine.

Also down Cheshire Bridge is Taqueria del Sol, a local favorite!

Rack, is there anything you don%26#39;t know? ;-)

%26gt;%26gt; Rack, is there anything you don%26#39;t know? ;-)

Of course. Just ask my wife and kids -- they%26#39;ll give you a whole catalog of things I don%26#39;t know ;-)

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