Taquerias Arandas

This place messed up half of the orders, speak little or no English, and would go 20 minutes at a time without checking on our table. Boooo.

Exelente servicio un lugar comodo y agradable. Y sobre todo me encantan la variedad de platillos q ofrecen.

I must say this place has the worst service. I had to repeat my order 3 times to my waitress and she still didn’t get it right. What wrong with plain burrito with only cheese, beans and meat. We also waited a while for chips and salsa. Terrible!

Location is definitely not the best.
The food was on the good end but service was absolutely horrible. No speaking; they just look at you and grunt.
The queen doesn’t know how to operate a credit card machine… She kept sliding my card and saying No Money! As loud as she could…
I don’t think a Visa Signature would be declined at s taqueria due to no money… Simply handed her an Amex and voila.
Wasn’t even embarrassed, as she desperately tried; the clientele was not even worthy of a second glance

Just mediocre. Food ok, service ok and costs are a bit high for the quantity and quality of the food.
There are much better places to choose from.

This location is horrible. Tacos aren’t as good. I’ve been to other locations where the chicken fajita is much better. The green sauce tastes like it was going bad. And the overall portions of the tacos wasn’t great either. I’ll still probably come back since this is the closest one to me momentarily.

This taqueria has the best tacos in town. Hands down. They’re huge and super tasty and cheap. Carnita tacos– the best EVER!!! Comfortable, fast, delicious. I’m sticking with this place.

Ick. Just… ick. Tacos were cheap and I was jonesing for some so I swung in here this morning and ordered 2 flour chorizo con huevos and cheese and 2 flour tocino con huevos and cheese tacos. Came to under $ 6. Cheap breakfast right? Got them home and opened them up and… ewwww. There was melted cheese that stuck all the tacos together. The bacon ones ended up being corn tortillas, not flour. The chorizo was absolutely flavorless. By the time I extracted the tacos from each other, I was just pissed off — if I have to mess with my food, then I lose all interest. A couple bites of each confirmed what I suspected — no flavor, a step up (barely) from Taco Bell. I had always wondered about this chain… now I know, and won’t stop there again.

I was looking for a new place for cheap tacos. Arandas hit the spot and then some. Tacos are $ 1.50. They have breakfast tacos as well. Never thought I would like cactus, but the eggs and cactus was very delicious! The tacos are fresh made-​to-​order, hot, and stuffed with lots of meat. I can take them home and they are still very hot. The charros beans have lots of good bacon.
I had been going to La Tapatia Mexican Restaurant on Richmond, but have been left a bit disappointed as of late. 100% Taquito is another good place I like.
For close and fast (since there are 25+ locations), Arrandas is the spot for great, affordable Mexican food.
Oh, an interesting tidbit… All the tacos are served with cilantro, except the beef which has lettuce.

It’s funny how life teaches you perspective and provides the arc through which you grow from your experiences. Like when Revenge of the Ninja was such a good movie that I watched 8 times in one week, only to realize as an adult what a piece of crap it truly was. Or maybe something most Americans can remember is how incredibly dope a birthday or happy meal at McD’s was when you were 5, but now can’t stomach the place. These are the thoughts that began to scroll through my mind as I paid my tab at Arandas just two days ago.
Arandas was one of the first places I found the kindred spirit for my drunken soul and empty wallet in college. Tortas, tacos, and burritos were all to be had until ungodly late hours for the couple of bottle caps and pieces of broken sea shell I was able to gather together for payment. How had I missed this? Was this America’s greatest secret and testament to our greatness? Should I share the knowledge to untold happiness with the masses? Or should I cherish the secret, protecting it in the highest Templar fashion, so that only us few lucky ones could maintain the greatness of cheap, late night eats? It was burden usually forgotten by morning, and my ignorance was bliss.
Fast forward many years and late night taquerias later and I realized that we had grown apart. Arandas now has locations dotting every point of the Houston compass, a shiny new menu, and I’ve not stepped in one for years. Lately I’d been keen on tacos, and happened to be passing this outpost of Arandas, so I thought like the famous phrase from a certain chili brand: «it’s been too long.»
I ordered 5 taquitos and got a smattering of taco hits: pastor, barbacoa, beef & chicken fajita. The tacos came with a side of charro beans to boot, and the expected chips and salsa while I waited. I’ll keep this brief. If this is what Arandas used to be, I’m disappointed in myself, but if this is what Arandas has grown into, they are the ones that should be disappointed. Everything pretty much sucked. The beans were more broth than beans and carried a faint metallic taste. The tacos were universally dry, flavorless, and uninspired. Part of my desire to eat here had been because I’d been craving tacos lately and wanted something more authentic to sate my taco lust than very recent visits to 100% Taquito and Tacos a Go Go. Both of these places are passable, but not in the upper echelon of my taco hierarchy. My thought was to go back to my roots, hit a tough part of town, and get down with some tacos authenticos. Mistake. The service was excellent, the location was decent, and the price was right. However much as the bloom has come off the McDonald’s rose so many years ago, and much as I resigned myself to the fact that Sho Kosugi is not Lawrence Olivier, so to must I move on knowing Arandas is not what it used to be… and worst yet, maybe it never was.