San Antonio Bean and Cheese Tacos

 

 

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This website serves as a list of reviews of various bean and cheese tacos found in San Antonio, Texas. The bean and cheese taco is a truly wonderful creation. Three simple ingredients (four if you include salsa, which I do), make the bean and cheese taco the most ubiquitous taco in San Antonio. The ideal bean and cheese taco has a fresh flour tortilla filled with flavorful beans and melted cheese paired with spicy salsa.

Art in a Tortilla

A bean and cheese taco is in many ways similar to an italian dish, such as pasta aglia e olio, in that it contains a few simple ingredients but when crafted correctly these ingredients come together to create a meal much greater than the sum of its parts. This simplicity leaves little room for error. If you were to take a store bought tortilla, add warmed refried beans from a can, sprinkle on cheese, toss in the microwave, and serve with jarred salsa it would still be a bean and cheese taco. However, when you take a freshly made flour tortilla hot off the griddle, ladle on beans that were made that day, sprinkle in cheese that is then melted to perfection on a stovetop that still has some leftover grease on it, and serve with salsa made from peppers and tomatoes that were roasted and blended together the previous evening, you get a completely different creation. Furthermore, the bean and cheese taco serves as a canary in the mineshaft for the regular breakfast taqueria. If a restaurant can't crank out a delicous bean and cheese with one hand behind their back then you can bet their chilaquiles or barbacoa is lacking.

Disclaimer:These are my own personal opinions. Most of these reviews are based off of one taco from each establishment. If you think any of these reviews are wrong or if you have any places you think I should try hit up sabeanandcheese.net@gmail.com.

Further Disclaimer: In my opinion San Antonio is the mecca of breakfast tacos. Therefore, when I describe a taco as average, that is relative to other tacos available in San Antonio. This means that calling a bean and cheese average is not only not an insult but a compliment. I would choose the most average taco San Antonio has to offer over the best taco the state of Iowa has to offer.

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Best In Class

My favorite nine favorite bean and cheeses at the moment (in no particular order). I would drive past other taquerias to get a bean and cheese from any one of these.

petes

Petes Tako House

Petes Tako House Website

Price: $1.89

Overall Rating: 7/5

Fresh flakey tortilla, Flavorful and spicy verde salsa is my favorite verde salsa I've tried.

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Marys Tacos

Marys Tacos Website

Price: $2.15

Overall Rating: 7/5

Awesome fresh fluffy tortilla, great beans and perfect meltage Also have a great potato and egg taco.

losoyas

Losoyas

Losoyas Website

Price: $1.39

Overall Rating: 7/5

Some of the best beans I've had, super creamy with awesome melty white cheese. Highly recommend, very nice staff but if you are a gringo like me bring a friend who can speak spanish. My only complaint is that the taco was a little small. They also have one of the better huevo and nopal tacos I've had.

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Original Donut Shop

Original Donut Shop Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 7/5

Theres a reason the drive through for this establishment causes a traffic jam on Fredericksburg. Because they have wonderful breakfast tacos and good donuts. What else do you need? Excellent fresh tortilla, quality creamy beans, perfect amount of meltage with superb red salsa.

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Con Huevos

Con Huevos Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 7/5

Fresh flakey tortilla, creamy beans, nice meltage and four different but equally good salsa. Highly recommend their specialty breakfast tacos as well, only place I've found with soft scrambled eggs. Also has pretty dope aqua fresca.

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Taqueria Datapoint #5

Taqueria Datapoint #5 Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 7/5

Wonderful taco with no weak points, taqeruia datapoint is definitely a household name for any San Antonian who enjoys tacos. This is for sure a step above your average spot.

ruthies

Ruthies Mexican Restaurant

Ruthies Website

Price: $1.59

Overall Rating: 7/5

Super fresh tortilla, creamy and flavorful beans with great meltage and two quality salsas. This is what everything done right in a traditional san antonio bean and cheese taco looks like. Their chilaquiles verde taco might be the best chilaquiles taco I've ever had. Big shoutout to Polly and Shanti for the recommendation.


Sleepers that Slap

These are places that you wouldn't necessarily expect to serve quality bean and cheese tacos. Take a chance on one of these and you won't be disapointed.

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Chas Market and Kitchen Korean BBQ

Chas Market Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 7/5

Yeah, thats correct, a korean market/all you can eat BBQ joint on the I-35 access road has some delightful breakfast tacos. Excellent fluffy and fresh tortilla, super creamy delicious beans with the pefect amount of melted cheese mixed in. Paired with a complex and spicey verde salsa.

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Bill Millers

Bill Millers Website

Price: $1.19

Overall Rating: 5/5

Who would have guessed that a BBQ and fried chicken joint would not only serve breakfast tacos, but good breakfast tacos? I was really pleasantly surprised by how good and (sizeable) their bean and cheese was. This might be a controversial opinion but I'd take a bill millers breakfast taco over taco cabana any day. There salsa was the only downside, it was palatable but certainly not spicy or interesting.

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Tapatio Vegan Tacos

Tapatio Vegan Tacos Website

Price: $8.00 (Two tacos + jalapeno and onion)

Overall Rating: 6/5

This taco is not just great for being a vegan bean and cheese, its a great bean and cheese. If I hadn't known it was vegan I would never have guessed. At four dollars each its a little pricey. However, this is the only taco truck I've ever been to that makes their own "cheese" so its worth the extra cash. In addition to a wonderful taco they also have the best avocado based salsa I have ever had.


Wall of Shame

These are the worst bean and cheese tacos I've tried

worst_overall

Revolucion Coffee + Juice

Revolucion Website

Price: $3.00

Overall Rating: 1/5

I want to preface this review by saying that I enjoy the cold brew and smoothie bowls at Revolucion and I admire their mission of sustainability and health. With that being said, this is not sasmoothiebowl.net. Everything about this taco was bad. I really tried to keep an open mind when I initially saw the green tortilla but it tasted like it came straight from a bag, the opposite of fresh, it wasn’t even warmed up. I 100% support vegetarian beans in a bean and cheese and I think that black beans are underutilized, but these were not it. There were crunchy bits of overcooked beans mixed in and there was little bit of a wonky aftertaste. Crunch in a bean and cheese is unacceptable. As you can tell from the picture the cheese ratio was way off, but at least it was sufficiently melted. Red salsa was weak but the green was actually good. Too bad the plastic cup it came in only held enough for one bite. The $3.00 price tag here just added insult to injury. Advertising this as a bean and cheese taco in San Antonio is akin to selling cream-based Fettuccine Alfredo in Rome.

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Taco Cabana

Taco Cabana Website

Price: $1.09

Overall Rating: 2/5

Exponentially worse than every (Thank you executive copy editor Matt Scoggins for catching my typo here) other place I've tried. With that being said, Salsa ranch is delicious. Are their margaritas still delicious for $2? Yes. Could I still demolish 6-10 of these in one sitting? Yes.


All Reviews

anthonys

Anthonys Tex Mex to Go

Anthony's Tex mex to go Website (Love the website design)

Price: $1.10

Overall Rating: 5/5

Good but inconsistent bean and cheese. However, the true star of anthonys is their burritos. Their chilaquiles burrito might be the best burrito I've ever had.

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Las Palapas

Las Palapas Website

Price: $1.29

Overall Rating: 6/5

One of the best bean and cheese and tacos I've had recently. This had the perfect ratio of bean to cheese to tortilla. The only downside was the salsa which was subpar. This might be my favorite san antonio chain for bean and cheese. If you go on their throwback pricing days you can get tacos for $0.79

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Taco Palenque

Taco Palenque Website

Price: $1.59

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very solid bean and cheese taco. Double wrapped with two tortillas which was an interesting twist. If you go to taco palenque, get a pirata, which is a bean and cheese taco with extra stuff.

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Taco Cabana

Taco Cabana Website

Price: $1.09

Overall Rating: 2/5

This is by far the worst bean and cheese taco I have eaten in San Antonio. Are their margaritas still delicious for $2? Yes. Could I still demolish 6-10 of these in one sitting? Yes. The salsa ranch is pretty dank though.

losoyas

Losoyas Expresss Norteno Food Truck

Losoyas Website

Price: $1.39

Overall Rating: 7/5

Absolutely solid bean and cheese. Highly recommend, very nice staff but if you are a gringo like me bring a friend who can speak spanish. My only complaint is that the taco was a little small. They also have one of the better huevo and nopal tacos I've had.

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Mama Margies

Mama Margies Website

Price: $1.29

Overall Rating: 5/5

Pretty solid for the price. A little small though. This is a better version of taco cabana

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El Milagrito

El Milagrito Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 6/5

Tasty taco excellent and complex orange salsa, nice atmosphere, they also have excellent chips and salsa

marys_tacos

Mary's Tacos in Boerne

Marys Tacos Website

Price: $2.15

Overall Rating: 7/5

One of the best bean and cheese tacos I've ever had. This is 100% worth the drive. To quote Boerne native Stephanie Elizabeth Crumrine (EIT): "You can taste the heritage in the tortillas"

Tias

Tias Taco Hut (On Babcock)

Tias Taco Hut Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

I mean this in the most positive way possible but this might be the most average bean and cheese taco I've found so far.

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San Antonio Pig Stand

San Antonio Pig Stand Website

Price: $2.09

Overall Rating: 4/5

This taco definitely errs on the side of tex moreso than mex. However, despites its differences from the standard bean and cheese found in San Antonio this was still delicious. The restaurant also had a really cool interior with very nice staff. Also check out their website its even cooler than this one.

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Jalisco Grill Mexican

Jalisco Grill Mexican Website

Price: $2.15

Overall Rating: 6/5

The real star of the show here was the salsa. For some reason I have found very few restaurants that can serve up both a banging green salsa and a nice red salsa. This place can. Both had nice pepper and garlic flavor and had a healthy amount of spice.

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Tacos N Salsa

Tacos N Salsa Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 5/5

Solid bean and cheese, good variety of salsa

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Taqueria Datapoint #5

Taqueria Datapoint #5 Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 7/5

Wonderful taco with no weak points, taqeruia datapoint is definitely a household name for an San Antonian who enjoys tacos. This is definitely a step above your average spot..

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La Tapatia

La Tapatia Website

Price: $1.19

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very solid taco complimented with unique and tasty salsabhs

taco_tote

Taco Tote

Taco Tote Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 4/5

Like a slightly worse version of taco palenque

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Taqueria Jalisco (On Babcock)

Taqueria Jalisco #15 Website

Price: $1.89

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very solid taco, definitelly a standard sa find

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One Dollar Taco

One dollar taco truck Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 5/5

Excellent taco, salsa was awesome, tortilla was definitely the weak point

lindo_jalisco

Lindo Jalisco

Lindo Jalisco Website

Price: $1.35

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very average taco

mimis_barbocoa

Mimis Barbacoa and Tamales Y Mas

Mimis Barbacoa and Tamales Y Mas Website

Price: $2.00

Overall Rating: 6/5

Solid bean and cheese, also their chilaquiles taco might be the best I've had

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Bill Miller

Bill Millers Website

Price: $1.19

Overall Rating: 5/5

This was surprisingly good, and significantly better than taco cabana, only thing lacking was the salsa

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Taquitos El Vapor (food truck)

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Price: ??

Overall Rating: 6/5

Quality taco with interesting salsa. Went here once when it was parked on Fredericksburg, never seen it since.

petes

Petes Tako House

Petes Tako House Website

Price: $1.89

Overall Rating: 7/5

If someone from outside of san Antonio only had time for one bean and cheese I would recommend Petes.

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Macho Libre

Macho Libre Website

Price: $1.19

Overall Rating: 5/5

Good taco with nice creamy red and green salsa

mildfire

Mildfire Coffee Roasters

Mildfire Coffee Website

Price: ??

Overall Rating: 4/5

This is the only city in the nation where you can a delicious breakfast taco with a fresh tortilla from a coffe shop. Mildfire has an excellent coldbrew

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Con Huevos

Con Huevos Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 7/5

Excellent bean and cheese taco. Super fresh tortilla, beans had good flavor and texture, nice meltage on the cheese. Came with four different but equally good salsas. Highly recommend their speciality breakfast tacos, one of the only taquerias I've been to that has properly soft scrabmled eggs in their breakfast tacos.

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Price: ??

Overall Rating: ?/5

I found this picture in my archive and forgot where I got it from. If any taco experts can tell who the creator is from the photo hit my line: sabeanandcheese.net@gmail.com

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Taqueria Dos Las Laredo

Taqueria Dos Las Laredo Website

Price: $1.00

Overall Rating: 5/5

Quality beans, nice meltage, average tortilla. Had a fantastic smokey red salsa.

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Nogal Taqueria

Nogal Taqueria Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 5/5

Quality taco from a nice small spot.

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Taqueria Chapala Jalisco

Taqueria Chapala Jalisco Website

Price: $1.75

Overall Rating: 5/5

Good taco, definitely inconsistent though. About 70% of the time tacos from the drive-thru are great, 30% of the time they are not great.

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El Regio Cafe

El Regio Cafe Website

Price: $1.30

Overall Rating: 6/5

Awesome tortilla, little too much American cheese for my liking though. I have a lot of nostalgia for this place, went here weekly for their morning taco deal in college.

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Oasis Mexican Cafe

Oasis Mexican Cafe Website

Price: $1.15

Overall Rating: 5/5

Nice local place, fresh toritlla, surprisingly pleasant red salsa, but little heavy on american cheese.

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Original Donut Shop

Original Donut Shop Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 7/5

Theres a reason the drive through for this establishment causes a traffic jam on Fredericksburg. Because they have wonderful breakfast tacos and good donuts. What else do you need? Excellent fresh tortilla, quality creamy beans, perfect amount of meltage with superb red salsa.

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Blanco Cafe (Downtown Location)

Blanco Cafe Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very average little heavy on american cheese, very fresh tortilla

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Chelas Tacos

Chelas Tacos Website

Price: $2.25

Overall Rating: 4/5

Excellent beans, fresh tortilla, perfect meltage. Flavorful mild and zesty verde salsa, but the red salsa was bad. Absolutely no heat or smokiness, almost indistinguishable from a marinara sauce. I understand that when you're located in alamo heights you can't exactly push boundarries with spice but still

thousand_oaks

Thousand Oaks Cafe II

Thousand Oaks Cafe II Website

Price: $1.45

Overall Rating: 4/5

Very Average, tortilla was a little dissapointing.

larder

Larder

Larder Website

Price: $5.00

Overall Rating: 4/5

This is the most expensive bean and cheese taco I have ever consumed with a whopping $5 price tag. This is 2.5 times pricier the next most expensive bean and cheese I've found and 5 times the price of most taquerias weekday morning special. This taco had a fresh doughy (in a good way) tortilla with practically no color. Great amount of meltage with pretty average beans. The salsa was acidic and tomatoey with no spice or pepper flavor but it wasnt bad, just different. Overall this taco exceeded my low expectations (considering its sold in the most expensive grocery store in the city), however my advice to anyone in the pearl area craving breakfast tacos is to stroll a mile down the riverwalk to Petes Tako House and get three tacos and some cardio for the same price.

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Tacos El Regio (Foodtruck on Saint Marys strip)

Tacos El Regio Website

Price: $2.00

Overall Rating: 6/5

Solid late night bean and cheese with perfect salsas. Hits monumentally different at 2:00am.

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Taqueria Los Dos Laredo #5

Taqueria Los Dos Laredo #5 Website

Price: $0.89

Overall Rating: 6/5

Excellent fresh tortilla, wonderful cheese meltage with solid beans and spicey salsa. At only $0.89 this may be the best bang for the buck I've had in the while

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Taqueria Vallarta

Taquiera Vallarta Website

Price: $1.45

Overall Rating: 6/5

Awesome fresh tortilla, nice meltage, excellent creamy green salsa.

rosarios

Rosarios

Rosarios Website

Price: $2.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

Rosarios is known more for enchiladas than tacos but they do offer a nice ala carte bean and cheese served with rich and roasted salsa.

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Taco Garage

Taco Garage Website

Price: $1.39

Overall Rating: 5/5

Solid bean and cheese, had a pretty good red and green salsa.

carmelitas

Carmelitas

Carmelitas Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

Good neighborhood spot, nice tortilla

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J and I Cafe

J and I Cafe Website

Price: $1.69

Overall Rating: 6/5

This is one of those tacos that tastes a lot better than it looks. Excellent beans, average tortilla, meltage was decent. However the real star is the salsa. This is the best red salsa I have had in San Antonio. Spicy and smokey, you can taste that they used a variety of dried peppers in this sauce.

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Little Taco Factory

Little Taco Factory Website

Price: $1.39

Overall Rating: 6/5

Wonderful taco from a quaint spot, good salsa, and superb meltage of cheese.

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Agave Azul

Agave Azul Website

Price: $1.59

Overall Rating: 4/5

Pretty average taco, kind of surprised this restaurant is able to stay open with the other heavy hitters on McCullough (Taqueria Chapala Jalisco, Little taco factory, and El Regio Tacos)

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Tapatio Vegan Tacos

Tapatio Vegan Tacos Website

Price: $4.00

Overall Rating: 6/5

This taco is not just great for being vegan bean and cheese, its a great bean and cheese. If I hadn't known it was vegan I would never have guessed. At four dollars each its a ilttle pricey. However, this is the only taco truck I've ever been to that makes their own cheese so its worth the extra cash. In addition to a wonderful taco they also have the best avocado based salsa I have ever had.

rosas

Rosas Tacos to Go

Rosas Tacos to Go Website

Price: $1.19

Overall Rating: 5/5

Solid taco, fast service.

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Eddies Taco House

Eddies Taco House Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 6/5

One of my new favorite spots near southtown, super fresh tortilla.

rosellas

Rosellas Coffee Shop

Rosellas Website

Price: $2.50

Overall Rating: 4/5

Quality coffee shop with decent bean and cheese. Only in San Antonio can a hipster coffee and wine bar crank out delicious breakfast tacos.

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Cafe Martinez

Cafe Martinez Website

Price: $3.69

Overall Rating: 5/5

Cafe martinez takes the crown for best bean and cheese from a coffee shop. Awesome fresh tortilla and tasty salsa. Highly recommend their mint chocolate cold brew.

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Taqueria El Ranchero

Taqueria El Ranchero Website

Price: $1.29

Overall Rating: 5/5

Small spot off of new braunfels road with quality tacos. Worth a stop if youre in this part of town

olivias

Olivias Mexican Restaurant

Olivias Website

Price: $1.29

Overall Rating: 6/5

Easy spot to miss since it has no signs, but does have quality tacos. Fresh thin tortillla perfect cheese meltage, fresh flavorful beans and unique red slasa with ince balance of acidity and heat.

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Taco Haven on Steves

Taco Haven on Steves Website

Price: $1.65

Overall Rating: 6/5

Excellent fluffy tortilla, nice ratio of cheese to beans and phenomenal salsa. Definitely a contendor for best verde salsa I've had.

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Panchos and Gringos

Panchos and Gringos Website

Price: $1.95

Overall Rating: 4/5

Probably the most unique salsa I've had, orange and very spicy and flavorful. While I do recommend their breakfast sandwiches and chilaquiles, their bean and cheese is a little heavy on the american/fake cheese, with almost no meltage.

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Hash Vegan Eats

Hash Vegan Eats Website

Price: $2.00, $1.00 on tuesdays

Overall Rating: 4/5

This may be the most unique bean and cheese taco I've tried. Warmed corn tortilla, flavorful chunky beans, and vegan cheese that is definitely vegan, but still brings a nice nutty flavor. Hash vegan eats is as equally unique as their bean and cheese, with a variety of non-alcoholic and CBD infused cocktails in addition to vegan food. I opted for a CBD kombucha from the tap which paired well with the bean and cheese. While this was definitely not a standard SA bean and cheese it was still tasty and at $1 on tuesdays is definitely a steal.

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Taqueria Vallarta #2

Taqueria Vallarta #2 Website

Price: $1.00

Overall Rating: 5/5

Solid bean and cheese, solid red salsa.

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Taco Broadway

Taco Broadway Website

Price: $1.35

Overall Rating: 6/5

Super fresh bean and cheese with two solid salsas. Surprisingly good tacos from such a tiny random spot.

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Mama's Kitchen

Mama's Kitchen Website

Price: $1.25

Overall Rating: 5/5

Quality tacos, with absolutely outstanding salsa. Some of the best I've had recently.

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Taco La Gardenia

Taco La Gardenia Website

Price: $1.29

Overall Rating: 6/5

Wonderful fresh tortilla, really nice and refreshing green salsa. Was a little small but still good. Highly recommend their chilaquiles tacos. Big shout out to fans of the site Rebecca and Kenneth for recommending this spot.

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Garcia's

Garcia's Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 6/5

Really nice tortilla, quality verde salsa, and the first taco I've had that also came with raw pepper salsa that was also quite good. Despite being only open for to-go orders this place was still incredibly busy, which makes sense based on how good their bean and cheese is. Big shout out to fan of the site T for recommending this spot.

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Molina's

Molina's Website

Price: $1.79

Overall Rating: 5/5

Molina's is a combination restaurant, gas station, and grocery store. For context this review was written during a blizzard that San Antonio. If you like me also have no power or water at your home, venture on down to Molinas where they are fully stocked on breakfast tacos, gasoline, and bud light michelada tall boys. This was a classic San Antonio taco and it’s comforting to know that even in such crazy times important services such as breakfast tacos are still available.

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Olgitas Molino

Olgitas Molino Website

Price: $1.49

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very Nice fresh tortilla, quality verde salsa. Thanks to fan of the site, Dave for the recommendation.

worst_overall

Revolucion Coffee + Juice

Revolucion Website

Price: $3.00

Overall Rating: 1/5

I want to preface this review by saying that I enjoy the cold brew and smoothie bowls at Revolucion and I admire their mission of sustainability and health. With that being said, this is not sasmoothiebowl.net. Everything about this taco was bad. I really tried to keep an open mind when I initially saw the green tortilla but it tasted like it came straight from a bag, the opposite of fresh, it wasn’t even warmed up. I 100% support vegetarian beans in a bean and cheese and I think that black beans are underutilized, but these were not it. There were crunchy bits of overcooked beans mixed in and there was little bit of a wonky aftertaste. Crunch in a bean and cheese is unacceptable. As you can tell from the picture the cheese ratio was way off, but at least it was sufficiently melted. Red salsa was weak but the green was actually good. Too bad the plastic cup it came in only held enough for one bite. The $3.00 price tag here just added insult to injury. Advertising this as a bean and cheese taco in San Antonio is akin to selling cream-based Fettuccine Alfredo in Rome.

chas_market

Chas Market and Kitchen

Chas Market Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 7/5

Yeah, thats correct, a korean market and all you can eat korean BBQ joint on the I-35 access road has some delightful breakfast tacos. Excellent fluffy and fresh tortilla, super creamy delicious beans with the pefect amount of melted cheese mixed in. Paired with a complex and spicey verde salsa. Highly recommend.

La_coronela

La Coronela Mexican Restaurant

La Coronela Website

Price: $1.00

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very solid bean and cheese, one of the better creamy verde salsas I have had.

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Teka Molino (2nd Location off Rittiman)

Teka Molino Website

Price: $1.65

Overall Rating: 5/5

Beans had great texture, excellent ratio of cheese to bean, one of my personal favorite red salsas. I would've liked a little more out of the tortilla.

magues_cafe

Magues Cafe (Boerne)

Magues Cafe Website

Price: $1.49

Overall Rating: 5/5

Solid taco, creamy beans and nice verde salsa. Red salsa was funky but good. Thanks to fan of the site Rachel for the recommendation.

Mi_casa

Mi Casa

Mi Casa Website

Price: $1.55

Overall Rating: 6/5

Great bean texture, great fresh tortilla, great cheese ratio and meltage, great flavor and heat from the salsa. Highly Recommend

los_ballitos

Los Ballitos

Los Ballitos Website

Price: $1.20

Overall Rating: 5/5

Quality beans, excellent ratio and meltage, two nice salsas. Tortilla could have been a bit fresher but I scooped this at 3:00 in the afternoon so understandable.

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Las tapatias de jalisco

Las Tapatias de Jalisco Website

Price: $1.39

Overall Rating: 6/5

Really awesome tortilla, quality beans and tortilla with excellent green and red salsa. Had a quality nopales and egg taco as well.

susanas

Susana's Mexican Restaurant

Susana's Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

Nice tortilla, maybe a touch too much cheese.

Perla

Taqueria La Perla de Jalsico

Perlas Website

Price: $1.69

Overall Rating: 6/5

Excellent taco, great cheese meltage, very nice hot and smokey red salsa.

Chilaquil

Chilaquil

Chilaquil Website

Price: $3.00

Overall Rating: 6/5

Best black bean taco I’ve had so far. Quality meltage of nice white cheese, both red and green salsa were excellent with nice heat and flavor. $3.00 is a little steep but I imagine that renting a food stall in the pearl is not cheap so I understand. Definitely recommend their chilaquiles torta as well.

chicos

Chicos Coffee

Chicos Website

Price: $2.00

Overall Rating: 5/5

Super fresh and flakey tortilla, creamy beans, spicey green salsa. Friendly staff and quality cold brew as well.

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Carnitas Don Raul

Don Raul Website

Price: $2.50

Overall Rating: 6/5

One of the most unique bean and cheeses I've tried recently. Cheese shown on left side of tortilla was grilled and added a unique chewy texture and nice toasted flavor. Paired with very nice hot and flavorful green salsa. Beans were also very creamy and fresh.

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Mi Rancho

Mi Rancho Website

Price: $1.25

Overall Rating: 5/5

Wonderful fresh fluffy tortilla, green salsa was standard, this could ahve been a 6/5 very easily with the addition of some more cheese.

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Ruthies Mexican Restaurant

Ruthies Website

Price: $1.59

Overall Rating: 7/5

Super fresh tortilla, creamy and flavorful beans with great meltage and two quality salsas. This is what everything done right in a traditional san antonio bean and cheese taco looks like. Their chilaquiles verde taco might be the best chilaquiles taco I've ever had. Big shoutout to Polly and Shanti for the recommendation.

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Tink-A-Tako

Tink-A-Tako Website

Price: $1.69

Overall Rating: 5/5

Nice thin flakey tortilla, quality beans and cheese meltage. Salsas held this back from being a 6/5.

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El Canelo #6

El Canelo #6 Website

Price: $1.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

Fresh fluffy tortilla, nice ratio of beans to cheese, textbook verde salsa. Only complaint is a little small for $1.99

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El Torreon

El Torreon Website

Price: $1.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very standard San Antonio find. Pretty cool its open 24/7 though.

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El Burrito Tapatio

El Burrito Tapatio Website

Price: $1.49

Overall Rating: 6/5

Excellent tortilla, average green salsa, but the smokey red salsa was definitely above average.

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La Revolucion Restaurant

La Revolucion Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 5/5

Nice tortilla, excellent red and excellent creamy green salsas. Beans were little below average.

cazadores

Taqueria Cazadores Restaurant

Taqueria Cazadores Website

Price: $1.60

Overall Rating: 5/5

Quality fresh tortilla, nice creamy beans and excellent meltage of white cheese with standard verdes salsa.

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Taco House

Taco House Website

Price: $1.59

Overall Rating: 6/5

Quality tortilla, star of the show here is the red salsa, excellent flavor.

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El Sabrasito de Jalisco #2

El Sabrasito de Jalisco #2 Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 5/5

Flavorful beans, spicy and tasty orange salsa.

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Taqueria Mexico

Taqueria Mexico Website

Price: $1.59

Overall Rating: 6/5

One of the few places I've been that makes a quality green and quality red salsa.

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Mi Mexico Restaurant

Mi Mexico Website

Price: $0.99

Overall Rating: 4/5

Little bit heavy on the beans, but tortilla was good.

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Tacos Express

Tacos Express Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 6/5

This food truck in Helotes is quality. Really great meltage, wonderfully creamy beans, and awesome salsas with nice heat

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El Bracero

El Bracero Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 5/5

Very average, with nice red salsa.

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Benny's Tacos

Benny's Tacos Website

Price: $1.75

Overall Rating: 5/5

Nice tortilla and meltage

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Garibaldi's Mexican Restaurant

Garibaldi's Website

Price: $1.89

Overall Rating: 5/5

Salsa's were a little bit weak, but good otherwise

Teresitas

Teresita's Mexican Restaurant

Teresita's Mexican Restaurant

Price: $1.75

Overall Rating: 6/5

Super fresh tortilla, nice ratio and very refreshing verde salsa.

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Roy's Taco Hut

Roy's Taco Hut Website

Price: $1.75

Overall Rating: 5/5

Fluffy and thick tortilla. Beans had a nice texture. By far the fastest taqueria drive thru I have gone through in San Antonio. Cleared a six car lineup in like 2 minutes.

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Campeche Cafe

Campeche Cafe Website

Price: $1.50

Overall Rating: 6/5

Some of the best beans I've had in a while

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Taqueria Hacienda

Taqueria Hacienda Website

Price: $2.00

Overall Rating: 5/5

Excellent tortilla, haven't had salsa in a bag in a long time and it was surprisingly tasty but would have liked more than one bag per 2 tacos.