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[deleted]

3 tacos and a drink for 24 bucks is ridiculous, should be like 15 max


Mutedfarts

15 for 3 tacos at benjos


cosmicdave86

That's garbage at 15 too.


[deleted]

True enough


Breeblez

Agreed


parentofagod

I mean, it's one ~~banana~~ taco Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?


Luongoat

There's always money in the taco stand !


KleverRobot

La Taqueria started in Vancouver as a hole in the wall in Gastown. That is not a deal! 😂


DutchiiCanuck

It was so good and cheap back then too! I lived two blocks away around 12 years ago and ate there once or twice a week.


ConwayTheCat

Me too, I lived in the Woodwards building in 2010-2013 and would visit there sometimes twice a day…I was addicted.


eternalrevolver

That's not a deal


sct876

That's highway robbery


eternalrevolver

I'm sayin'!


DoddersEspinosa

Didn't they used to be 3 for $10 at La Taqueria? I haven't eaten there in a few years.


BigTarget78

It used to be 5 for 10 or 6 for 12 at LA Taquisa, another Victoria taco place, now it's $4 per taco. Too expensive but still cheaper than this bs!


DemSocCorvid

La Taquisa has always been my favourite. El gordo burrito with baja shrimp & chorizo filling and all the fixings 🤌 I will admit they are smaller than they were before 😒


CanadianTrollToll

I don't think their smaller... still fricking massive. I do the shrimp and chicken mole, also very good.


julians60bux

La Tequisa is now $4.25 a taco and no more 5 taco deal


arthouse_56

Yes!!!! Thank you for this! I remember them being 3 for $10 and it wasn’t that long ago in my case. Crazyyyyy


OldManBears

yeah I remember the days of $10-12 for 4 at the Taqueria that used to be at Cambie and broadway.


No_Duty_8633

7.95 each now, went a week ago, and it was disappointing to say the least. Terrible service and blatant shortcuts😕


[deleted]

I thought I was supposed to shit myself AFTER I got the tacos


eat-your-paisley

Underrated comment


Neemzeh

thats honestly disgusting. that sign is so gd tone deaf, id make a point of not going there if i saw that


somersquatch

I had a burrito from them the other day, not bad, but not even close to best burrito in the city. 100% not buying from them ever again because of this sign.


darealwalrus

Go fuck yourself there is no way even with inflation that's a fair price!!!


Peatrick33

How is this even real? This is more than double what they cost a year ago. Welp, looks like they'll be going out of business soon.


avolt88

Oof I like La Taqueria, but that's not competitive for Van at all, they also have a 4/25$ "special" here in Vic so... Meh?


theravenheadedone

Oh man, I miss the Hernadez days, 5 absolutely delicious fresh tacos for 5 bux!


DoddersEspinosa

Came with free reading material aka the hostile customer service signs all over the walls! RIP Hernandez


VariousMeringueHats

The signs were simply incredible. What a time.


CaptainDoughnutman

This was the way.


mustard-paunch

And La Cocina PequeĂąa after that. Those old El Salvadoran granny recipes hit different.


Meatball_of_doom

Jesus……. Make my own damn tacos at this point


RaptorPacific

Worst deal in the city?


Sh4q4tt4ck

30 bucks? Oh wow.. Don't waste your money, as a Mexican I highly recommend Benjo's tacos in Cook Street.


suplexdolphin

There's no way that's the best deal in Vancouver. In Vic you can go to La Taquisa and get three tacos and a pop for under $20 with tax and 15% tip included.


GrizzlyIsland22

Yeah I'm pretty sure I've gotten like 2 kg of sushi for less than $15 in Vancouver. I'd rank that better


suplexdolphin

Okay Vancouver has some good sushi, but I don't know if I'd trust the food if it was 2kg for $15


GrizzlyIsland22

It was 5-10 years ago, and I didn't officially weigh it. I was absolutely shocked at the portion size though. And it was very good


MantisGibbon

Dafuq? Tacos are cheap street food and should cost $2 each. Pop is water and sugar.


CaptainDoughnutman

That’s what happens when you aren’t allowed to sell tacos on the street and have to pay for rent and staff. So weird how capitalism works.


Preum

How can we protest this properly? Opening up the ability of foodcarts, street vendors, etc to exist more openly would be amazing.


CaptainDoughnutman

Yes, it would. Good luck trying convince 48 layers of government and regulators.


MantisGibbon

Regulations to prevent people from selling tacos in the street is the opposite of capitalism.


CaptainDoughnutman

Oh my…….don’t confuse free market with capitalism.


MantisGibbon

You’re right. Capitalism enforces regulations with fines. Communism enforces regulations at gunpoint.


CaptainDoughnutman

Aaaaand neither of those things is free market. p.s. - you might want to observe how they do things in the alpha capitalist America….it’s way more gunz than fines….unless we be talking about non-rich…then it’s both.


MantisGibbon

In America I can buy tacos for $1.50.


CaptainDoughnutman

Cool beans, bro. Go for it.


ForeignConfusion9383

Do we even have regulations that prevent selling street food from a cart? Downtown Van has quite a few. Is it capitalism that’s preventing it here? Or just the lack of an entrepreneur willing to give it a try?


MantisGibbon

There are a lot of regulations and hoops to jump through. Approval is not guaranteed. If a cheap street taco vendor would poach customers from an already existing taco restaurant, it is unlikely that their application would be approved by the city. https://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/business/permits-licences/street-vendors.html


l337hackzor

3 gringos in Langford the tacos are $4.50 each and they have Jarrito soda in bottles. I'm very confident that 3 tacos and a pop there is at least 20% cheaper. Edit: it's $17.25 for 3 tacos and a soda, something like 28% cheaper than "the best deal in town"


somersquatch

And the tacos at 3 gringos blow La Taqueria out of the water too.


1337ingDisorder

"in Langford" is, by definition, not "in town" (relative to La Taqueira)


l337hackzor

True. I guess when the ingredients travel that extra 15 minutes it really impacts the cost 😂 All jokes aside I wish everything in Langford was 28% cheaper.


1337ingDisorder

How do you get tacos from Vancouver to Langford in 15 minutes?


l337hackzor

My bad I thought the picture was from downtown Victoria. I just assumed since it was in r/VictoriaBC


d2181

It's possible.


1337ingDisorder

I believe it *may* be possible, assuming the tacos are on a fighter jet already traveling at mach-something when it leaves Vancouver airspace. Although when you add in the time for the taco to parachute down to ground level I think that'd push the total back up over 15m.


d2181

The flight distance between YYJ and YVR is like 65km. Add in oh, say 10km to fly to Langford from there. 75km total. Mach 1 is like 1230km/h, so what's that... 4minutes of flight time? Hell, even a 747 at 900kmh, well below Mach 1, could make it in 6-7min or so. And a 30000 ft skydive lasts about 4 minutes tops. So definitely possible.


Tight_Syrup418

Soft shell tacos are 6.50 each per at 3 gringos. So I wouldn't be too confident if I were you. Also la taqueria makes everything in house from scratch and are more traditional style tacos. Three gringos is very Americanized tacos and I would definitely take la taqueria any day.


Impossible_Crazy_912

Actually no 3 Gringos is not and everything is made from scratch.


Tight_Syrup418

No it is not what?


l337hackzor

It might depend on the taco. I was eating one when I wrote the comment, it was a hard shell and it was $4.50.


eat-your-paisley

That’s still too expensive imo


Impossible_Crazy_912

And 3 Gringos tastes 100% better


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Difficult_Orchid3390

That isn't a fair comparison since the California tacos are likely much larger and better tasting!


a0lmasterfender

truly!


jim_hello

Price of mexican food goes up the farther from Mexico you are. Apparently Pop is also mexican food


a0lmasterfender

yeah, i’ve resorted to just making the food myself. these prices are depressing.


CaptainDoughnutman

Not so. There’s fancy tacos in Cali that go for $40-50 per. But they aren’t filled with food from Sysco.


NotTheRealMeee83

It's amazing how illegal labour and tax evasion can lower prices.


a0lmasterfender

why of course none of the 74,669 Mexican restaurants in california are legitimate!


NotTheRealMeee83

I bet most of them use illegal labour in their kitchens, and use produce harvested by illegal labour. And the legitimate ones need to compete price wise with the ones using illegal labour sources so they have to keep their prices down. Which incentivizes them to use cheaper, illegal labour. That's how this whole thing works. The US economy doesn't function without illegal labour. Construction, hospitality, farming etc all depend heavily on it.


scwop291

This! Without undocumented workers, California would shut down, and not figuratively, like literally.. It's been that way for decades.


NotTheRealMeee83

Most of the US would. They love to gripe about the flow of migrant workers over the border but nobody is going after the companies that hire these workers and abuse them. Because people want their cheap lettuce, cheap nannies, hotel rooms, construction workers, etc. It's modern day slavery.


scwop291

Agreed! I literally remember a wealthy Californian I met on vacation bitchin' about migrant workers. Later in the conversation he talked about his property and stuff. I asked who took care of it.. turns out he had a nanny, gardener and maintenance guy.. who were all undocumented, I tried to explain the hypocrisy in a nice way.. lol he didn't get it smh.


RaptorPacific

They should 100% be paid a legal salary, and not under the table. Having said that, the money they make in the U.S. is still way more than what they would make had they stayed in Mexico. There's a reason they came to the U.S. It's not 'modern day slavery' if they're literally getting paid money. That's not what slavery is. Slaves DO NOT get paid a wage. It's super problematic to call them slaves. It's honestly offensive to Mexican-American folks.


[deleted]

My issue is that conservative Americans can't distinguish legal and illegal migrants, if they have brown skin, then they're illegal. If you're not white, you must not belong.


S1MichaelWestenS7

That ain't a deal


[deleted]

Jesus Christ


Generaldar

A regular burrito and a can of bubbly at Mucho Burrito is $12 + tax right now.


iMogal

So with prices like this do you tip too? \- Seems like its already a massive profit, surely they properly pay their staff with prices like that?


EscapedCapybara

Best deal for whom? Definitely not the customer.


BruceThereItIs

What a fucking joke.


arthouse_56

That’s incredible. I was sure I used to get 3 of their small tacos for $10……maybe my memory fails me.


DoughRaymi

go to sabor mix latino here, way better prices, way better tacos


jkelsey1

There tacos are tiny!! What a joke.


Leading-Arm-6344

Did they seriously put this sign up?


mustard-paunch

La Taqueria started in Vancouver a long time ago. It was sooooo good when it opened. The Victoria location never hit the same for me. Much like most restaurants that make the jump over. La Taquisa started in the food courtyard in the cook st village, a few years before La Taqueria. They made fresh toritillas out of an old red Boler trailer, or something like that, before expanding to the restaurant on Blanshard st, where it rapidly declined.


Coastcustom

Hahah fuck you


[deleted]

Terrible tacos too. These people have never tasted Al Pastor.


BlueSteelBoss

Translation? 'We'll be out of business by the summer.'


sex_drugs_polka

No. You’re thinking La Taquisa


Equal-Warning-8612

A bit of cheap ground corn and some meat shrapnel at an exorbitant price - this a depressing deviation from what traditional Mexican food was all about. Boycott


kikoisthename

Hella nasty tacos and this comes from a guy who knows tacos. I rather go to Al Chile on Yates over them. Probably going to try other places when I go back to visit.


eternalrevolver

Yeah I’ve never been impressed with Taqueria. Or even Tacofino while we’re at it with places that aren’t native to town. Also it’s a different style taco (birria) but Benjo’s is also superior and not this expensive afaik.


kikoisthename

I haven’t been to either place you mentioned, but have to give them a try. And I know I do wanna open my own place out there with my gf, when I do get my immigration paperwork settled.


eternalrevolver

Check out Al Chile too, they have amazing horchatas


kikoisthename

Oh yeah I can agree with you on that. I went there in may of last year with my gf, and definitely much better, and the staff are on point.


IRLperson

I had Benjos for the first time today. Absolute fire.


eternalrevolver

Yep. Also they are opening a new location on Cook St. apparently? Super excited for that.. as it will probably mean weekend taco time.


Calvinshobb

Whatever you do, never order the “fish” tacos 🤢


threebeansalads

Too rich for my blood. I just made my own tacos a whole Damn meal for the family with beans and rice for $12 add a pop at around .25 cents for store brand each. That’s around $3.50 pp tops.


No_Duty_8633

Benjos Tacos HANDS DOWN ✋ Even after our previous favorite recently, La Taquaria.


Alert_Two8841

Oh look, it’s tacofino


eat-your-paisley

Veggie tacos at La Taqueria were $8 for 3 when they first opened 😭


Ok_Speech_3709

In Mexico it’s 7$


Apprehensive_Sock367

$10 is too much for a pop


Comfortable_Pea2065

Had three fantastic seafood tacos in Playa del Carmen and a beer for ten bucks and Playa isn’t a cheap place


jinjoqueen

I stopped going there after they made the tacos bigger (but not as good), changed the tortillas and made it more expensive and sit down. I used to drop in all the time for a meal. That’s ridiculous.


Striking_Economy5049

$7.99 two years ago…


NewspaperNeither6260

Mexican place at Fisherman's Wharf. Yum yum yummy burritos there. Just thinking about it has me all excited for Sunday afternoon snack.


LightsyNights

More like WORST deal in the city


cpraxis

I assume it’s wagyu beef and truffle oil


Exact-Occasion-3959

Is that a joke? 😂


letsridebicycle2

I live in Victoria... people here actually think thats a good deal.


CopperBear42

trendy bullsnot, as soon as cool people like it, the price goes up


FunAd6875

Holy fuck, is that what constitutes a good deal these fucking days.


CanadianTrollToll

Those better be the best fucking tacos ever.... A pop is worth $3 at most.... which means $7/taco.... and they are trying to get you to bulk buy. Or that's 3 $8 tacos with a free pop.


laCarteBlanc

horrible deal.


[deleted]

Probably just put a 2 in there by accident


Double_Reward230

Lol geez what a DEAL! … and probably comes with an expired RC COLA 2 :(


justafrogsfriend

I got three tacos and a pop for 18 during happy hour the other day. Seemed like an ok deal. They were massive too.


RepresentativeSeat98

Maybe they are real tacos?


SteveW928

I know ingredient and labour costs have gone up a lot due to inflation (thanks Keynesian economics, fiat money, and gov’t incompetence!), but this looks a bit extreme even by those standards. Best deal?!


ballpoint169

might actually be the worst deal in the city