"tacos" news and stories

Thursday is taco night at KitchenDaily contributor Melissa Roberts's house. It's a night when her family gets to eat with their hands, and her two young sons love it. Her beef tacos are stuffed with well-seasoned flank steak, pickled onions, cilantro, radishes, and homemade guacamole. Flank steak cooks quickly under the broiler, Melissa says.The trick is in the slicing: thinly and across the grain so it isn't tough.

It's everything you want in a simple meal, folded in a simply perfect tortilla...and held in your hands.

Recipe for Beef Tacos

Boca Tacos y Tequila, a locally owned taqueria in Tucson, AZ, has announced that it will be serving lion tacos on February 16, a sort of belated Valentine's Day present for those who take their declarations of love with a side of grilled Simba. The tacos must be preordered (and paid for) by 3 p.m. on February 7, according to the Arizona Daily Star. They'll be served as Sonoran-style street tacos, available with cabbage, guacamole, pickled red onions, diced cucumbers and any of six house-made salsas, for $8.75 each.

The special is part of the restaurant's "Exotic Taco Wednesdays," in which owners Brian and Maria Jose Mazon appear to be cycling through a veritable Noah's Ark of meats. They've served python, alligator, elk and kangaroo, as well as frog legs, turtle, duck, Rocky Mountain oysters and the "most talked about" (so far) -- rattlesnake.

Arizonans who developed a hankering for lion meat last summer after a restaurant in Mesa offered
a one-day-only special on lion burgers will finally have a chance to savor the big-cat meat again.

It's giveaway time at Jack in the Box. Today, from 2 p.m. to midnight, the chain is offering two free tacos to every customer -- there is no coupon or purchase required, reports Nation's Restaurant News. Regularly two for 99 cents, the beef tacos have, according to the company, been improved, although says NRN, a spokesperson for the chain declined to name those improvements.

The latest Jack in the Box ad features the company mascot sprawled in a dentist's chair, hooked up to a line of laughing gas, and, in a loopy moment, deciding to do a no-strings taco giveaway. But wait, what is that guy doing at the dentist's anyway? He has no mouth (unless you count that red smiley line), not to mention teeth. So how does Jack eat his tacos?