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Tacos del Gordo ~ Colorado Springs, Colorado


Latest visit: Mar 2025 (South Academy)

First visit: May 2024 (North Academy)

Other locations: Union; Fountain. They also have a food truck.

---3/26/25 update

It's Wednesday and time for my weekly Colorado Springs thrifting tour. As usual, I fell behind on schedule, and it was past noon. Only time for maybe a quick lunch. Tacos sounded good, so what's nearby? Ah yes, Tacos del Gordo. I forgot they had this southern location.


It was the perfect meal (which I sadly forgot to photo). On this visit I had the pollo asado, ground beef, and adovada. The latter no doubt influenced from our recent trip to New Mexico. They came out smoking hot. The shell on the ground beef taco was beautifully crunchy. And all three salsas were perfect (better than the below visit), especially the two hotter red ones. The meats were all heavily seasoned and delicious. 

Stays in the RJG rotation with probably more frequent visits in between. (6/4/25 edit - Visited again as promised and remembered to photo. Same meal as last time.)


---original 5/3/24 review

As noted here on the RJG a few times, getting tacos in Colorado Springs is a dicey proposition. Admittedly I tend to enjoy more gringo oriented fare, and some of the places in town are hardcore. But if there's one dish that seems to give the game away it's pollo asado. If they take the time to grill a chicken then it seems that I will enjoy the restaurant.

That axiom proved true again. I ordered three tacos: Ground beef, carne asada, and the aforementioned pollo asado. They have a salsa bar and I put a ladle full of all three they offer into the cups provided. Once the meal arrived, I started in on the ground beef taco. Oh yes - super crunchy and crispy homemade shell. And the beef was heavily seasoned. Excellent by itself (I'll get to the salsas in a minute). The carne and pollo are served street style with onions, cilantro served on double corn tortillas. They also offer guac for both, but I passed. These are fully loaded so you get your $3+ each moneys worth. Both were fantastic, the former with a charbroiled steak flavor and the chicken was very flavorful. As for the salsas, the green is real thin and fairly tasteless. Not sure there's any reason to have it. The red was also very thin but did carry spice, but not much flavor. The thick textured red was the money sauce. Spicy and very flavorful. Unique too. Loved it and made each of the three tacos better. It's all you need really.

The restaurant was clean and the service was friendly. And they don't ask for an unearned tip. My kind of place! Into the RJG rotation Tacos del Gordo goes.

5/3/24 (new entry); 3/26/25

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