Taco Del Mar

Low quality — high quantity. The lunch specials are worth their value. Taco Del Mar offers a customer loyalty card; after 10 lunches, you get $ 5 off your next meal. The servers are friendly but they can’t speak English properly, giving it an authentic foreign experience in terms of communication!

The food is so unappetizing that my and my friends and family made an inside joke about it.
Me: Ever been to Taco Del Mar?
Them: No?
Me: Well, DON’T!
It’s like they formatted their restaurant after Qdoba or Chipotle. I sincerely recommend you go to those two restaurants instead of Taco Del Mar.
Never again.
¹⁄₅

I put this rating smack in the middle. I have had good service and some not so good. The food varies. Fish Tacos are not good; they used what looked to be a frozen fish stick. The tacos salads are great! Tacos themselves are right in the middle as well. The tacos are a bit over priced for the size you get. The ingredients are fresher than other chains. Overall, I will continue to go there for a taco salad and a beer. I threw an extra star on it because they serve beer!

Honestly it wasn’t that good, had some favour but meh. I had large burrito and for the price I had bigger and more filling at big bite burrito or mexican boy.
It was wrap odd that it fell apart on me. Mine been the liquid making the it too soggy, anyways probably won’t be back, price or food isn’t appealing

The Sevice was really nice, this kid very respectful and he got the order right, the hit sauce was very hot and i loved it. But the food, I can live without, nothing really that make me wanna go back.

Taco del mar is a taco place beside sherbourne and bloor. Its inside is very nice and clean. The food is normal pretty good. I have tried the tacos, burrito, nachos and quesadilla. I would rank them in this order:
1.nachos (big enough to be a meal)
2.tacos
3.quesdilla
4. Burrito (try getting less rice)

It’s good not great. Never very busy. Burritos are well priced and sized. Service is what you would expect from a guy working at Taco Del Mar.
Docked 2 stars for quality of the ingredients, looks kind of gross with the meat sitting in containers all day being scooped and served to order versus chipotle or burrito boys cooking fresh quality ingredients all day.

Love this place! I believe the only location in Toronto. There is almost no variety around Sherbourne and Bloor. Glad that this came along. Plus they have a option to make your Burrito wet! I’ve only seen it in pictures till the day I finally got one. It’s great! Always my go to Mexican before I go home. Great staff too!

Is the rice supposed to be crunchy? It was… crunchy. Boyfriend’s baja bowl was just … salty and crunchy although reasonably okay. I ordered a fish burrito but I’m not sure if any fish made it into the burrito. Everything here tasted fine, albeit disappointing. The Price was right, though! They were also out of guacamole which they didn’t mention til my burrito was half made. Meh.

Had the vegetarian burrito and it was really good, I was a bit disappointed with the hot sauce because I expected it to be hotter but with jalapenos it made it better. The tortilla chips were a bit too salty but good overall, the queso dip (we had asked for salsa though) was good and as you would expect. Understanding the employees was difficult and they had trouble understanding us but overall I would come again.

slightly better than TACO BELL…
not saying much!
Might be owned by Subway; feels like the ‘subway version of tacos’.
boring, bland.
A one time experience; so many better options in the city, unfortunately Bloor/​Sherbourne is a DEAD corner/​spot, so you would have to head to Yonge St for something decent.

Wow, this is only the 2^nd time Unilocal misled me. Before Unilocal had a high rating for a place that I found sub par, while I think Taco Del Mar here is underrated. It’s very clean, have lots of fresh ingredients, have a variety of platters/​combinations, enchiladas and daily specials. I had the Friday Fish Taco (2 tacos) special, and decided to get one hard shell and one soft shell. There toppings looked so fresh. I got one with guac (extra $ 1) and one without. Both of them were absolutely delicious.
Verdict: best TeX Mex place near the area.

Decent enough. Got the enchilada plate. Could have had bigger enchiladas but very tasty. The food was nothing special but was quick and tasty. It was busy inside and the woman serving me was smiling and chatting to a regular so it had a nice vibe. Living closeby it’s a good place to drop in when I’m craving cheap Mexican but I wouldn’t travel any distance to get there.

Wow this place has gone downhill with a vengeance. Used to go here twice weekly as it was affordable and pretty good. Now can’t stay further away. Had good poisoning on a taco del mar lunch day and was suspicious but didn’t 100% attribute to taco.
Now after cautiously returning I am doubled over the toilet again. This time I should have known. The meat was stale and cold and taco shells so ridiculously stale. Also the employees are so forlorn looking, the manager was there once and really had a domineering manner, I can’t imagine his employees are well treated.
I will not be going to this or any other taco del mar franchises again. Guess we have to wait for decent mexican somewhere mead yonge and bloor.

Chicken Burrito Guys — completely changed my opinion on the food here! I still had a hard time understanding the staff, but they are super polite.

This place is one of the worst run restaurants I’ve ever been to. The customer service is really bad. I was in line to order by burrito and as I place my order, one of the servers runs over and tell my server to stop doing what she’s doing and take the order or some other person who comes out of nowhere. Not sure if there’s some priority service in place. After that, the server messed up what I wanted a couple of times, including forgetting to put the sauces. The worst came when they transferred the burrito to the grill. They had a weird system of moving the burrito from the original foil wrapper that they started with to another wrapper that was used ahead (usually covered with sauce and spills from the first burrito. It was just odd. Finally, when the person wrapped by burrito, it was rushed and it broke before it was even put into the foil.
All in all — the food is a bit below average and coupled that with really bad service, I don’t think I’ll ever go back. I’ve been here a couple times now to try and give it a shot, but each and every time has been a disappointment.

It seems that a lot of people have had bad experiences at Taco Del Mar. I can’t say that my experience was so bad.
After returning from living in Mexico for awhile, I stopped by Taco Del Mar for a quick lunch to go. The service was super friendly and they were really good with the crazy drunk that was loudly questions about every bloody food choice available to her. The selection is good and the portions are large! And right now they have a lot of good deals and coupons you can take advantage of.
But at the end of the day the food was good. Nothing special, but still decent. I know I’m biased from having just left Mexico, but I still think that by Canadian standards, the food is nothing spectacular but will fill any lunch cravings.

Maybe there is a learning curve given how new the location is, but most of what I ordered was inedible: o (
The menu looks fantastic and clearly the concept is solid but something major is getting lost in the prep process.
The guac was the worst thing, and the fish taco I threw away because the ‘fish’ was an inedible brick.
No heating, grilling, broiling etc of any kind took place… just assembly. I am confused as I ordered an enchilada/​taco platter.
Luckily I had a cupcake from elsewhere to chase the nightmare away…

The popular Tex-​Mex chain that had their beginnings in the Pacific Northwest has officially opened their second location in Toronto’s downtown core. Good selection of tacos, burritos, burrito bowls, and other sides makes this somewhat of a lower cost Chipotle alternative. Food and service is good, and I didn’t taste cilantro in my food. Busiest hours tend to be weekday from 11:00am — 2:00pm, and the lunch crowd tends to be mainly employees from Rogers and those working at the office buildings across the street. Rogers employees get a 10% discount if they show their employee ID.

After dealing with a 20 minute line for food (you can tell the area is ravenous for more food options), I ordered a Pork Carnitas Mondito Burrito combo. The burrito was decent but I couldn’t understand why I could taste cilantro when asking for no cilantro.
When eating the nachos and salsa side dish that came with the combo, I realized that their salsa has cilantro in it (at least the medium salsa anyways). So even if you don’t like it, you’re essentially stuck with it unless you go with a sauceless burrito.
I guess if cilantro is your thing than this might be a good burrito, but I was underwhelmed in the experience and doubt I’ll be coming back.