Never been to any of the places you've listed.
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not surprising - you live in Nebraska - so yeah. But they're all good.
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All I remember about Texas Tom’s in Blue Springs are the pork tenderloin sandwich and the weird tacos with shredded lettuce and some kind of white cheese (Parmesan, maybe?).

Del Taco is definitely several notches ahead of Taco Bell. Their macho tacos and burritos are light years beyond the Taco Bell offerings and their breakfast burritos are good, too.

I usually hit Del Taco a few times a year.
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Not about TXTom or Tvia, but I finally figured out what was nagging me about a bit of dining history in KC.

For those who are familiar with the Blue Ridge Paul's Drive-In, does anyone know if the history of the building predates Paul's itself?

I ask, because the roofline always reminded me of something, and I recently saw a little clip on the history of Dogs'n'Suds. Said that their original restaurants were designed by a local architecture student [who went on to work at Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture firm]. And it's pretty distinctive. It's the only place that comes to mind with that specific V-shape to its roof.


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It's good stuff. I hadn't been to one in 10 yrs or more - they left Atlanta and have resurfaced as of late.
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I...umm...have left Nebraska a couple times.
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I haven't been to Texas Tom's in well over ten years now. They were okay. If I recall they had a taco bar. Del Taco also was okay. Both better than Taco Bell. But Taco Bell does have the mexican pizza and baja blast. But not as good as Taco Johns. Or any cantina. On par with just about every tex mex place like taco bueno, taco via, and such
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A lot of folks were ordering burgers at Del, Dane. I watched the guy cooking them - they looked good. Nice sear... Maybe next time. I'm on an eating healthy kick through the week. But always like talking shitty food nostalgia and memories. ha....
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I know that.
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Back in the eighties - Taco Bell would be in these conversations - but they're shit, now. I'd literally rather eat at BK I think.
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I had a Del Taco burger about 10 years ago when visiting a buddy in Vegas, as he raved about them.

It was definitely good and better than expected.
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Glad to hear that Del Taco revamped.

Had a buddy in law school who was ravenous for it, but none of us wanted to join him there. It wasn't . . . bad, . . . it was just cheap and uninspired. Kind of like if you were drunk alone in a Taco Bell and could make whatever you wanted, as big as you wanted.

The two major ones in my area were both not only closed, but torn down. One for an on-ramp improvement, and the other [which was a real rigamorole] for expressway expansion.

The rigamarole one was because it was so weird-assed a building that preservationists wanted to give it historic status. Basically, where they first built it was ALREADY so cramped that they made the drive through into a circle around the building, instead of a regular line. It's right off a bunch of competing intersections [start of Forest Park Parkway, edge of SLU, right at the crown of Grand Ave] and was a real bitch to get into, out of, and around.

http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/2011/0...d-forest-park/


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Probably so. They are. I go like twice a year for the mexican pizza and the baja blast. Otherwise I'd never go there. But I am one of the few people on earth that doesn't like chipotle anymore. But I didn't know that Del Taco was out here in the Metro. I thought the last one that I saw was in St. Louis, or in Washington
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Oh that's neat - looks like a restaurant in the Jetsons
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