Cactus Taqueria

The only taqueria I know of on this side of the bridge to have hormone-free meat and so the only taqueria I frequented all through the pandemic, and now.

I've noticed the portion size decrease, as some recent reviews have mentioned, but as I won't eat any other quality of meat I'm still a huge fan.

New menu is awful. In addition to higher prices and smaller portions, they've made it impossible to feed my kids there.

Rice and beans can't be ordered separately now, only mixed in the same container. Their "bocaditos" small bites enchiladas now inexplicably come covered in jalapenos, and there's no option to avoid them. The adult food has had quality reductions too.

This used to be a place I could happily feed the whole family at, but now I just have to accept that the restaurant we used to love essentially closed.

Cactus used to be the default goto comfort spot for me and my kids over the last decade. Just like several others reviewers, I am finding a big issue with the new menu in that it doesn't appear to add any star item and downgrades most existing dishes. Mejor Burritos used to feed me and had decent amount of basics including lettuce and cheese. In the new version everything is designed as an add-on including what feels like salsa fresca, and the base price is higher. The new tostada has a strange new sauce and pickled onions that just don't go together. Even rice and beans burrito kids don't recognize as the same.

Please bring back the old menu, adjust prices if you have to, but at least make dishes delicious without having to figure out add-ons.

Consistently great crispy chicken tacos for the 10 or so years I've been coming here.
Thank you Cactus!

I am still not a fan of the new menu but they have a special of veggie crispy tacos and they are yummy -- expensive but yummy.

Great location on the corner of college avenue by the bart, mediocre service, average quality of food.
It's definitely a solid option if you're looking for convenient and safe mexican food.

Tasty crunchy tacos. Salsa could be a bit tastier/spicy other than that the taco are a goto with guacamole added to the taco as a standard.

This was once a 'go to' taqueria. But no more. They switched out their recipies that kept families coming here for the past two decades. Now the food tastes terrible, possesses none of the elements that made it once great. Take a hard pass on this once great restaurant and go somewhere else where the food tastes good.

Fed my son from age 2-15. He never turns cactus down. A favorite of many families. Bring back the red mole chicken!

I'm so confused that you can do grilled veggies on everything else on the menu EXCEPT for crispy taco. Por que? It's super stupid and you should take grilled veggies off all together. Everyone loves a crispy taco and to have a cook that is willing but a cashier that says no speaks volumes. No wonder the business here has declined in recent years. Tostada, soft taco, burrito, quesadilla all good but crispy taco, no? Was it too popular and if so doesn't that say something??? Welp last time I come here!

And y'all messed up our orders to the point of us leaving all together