Ta'golazo

Fast service, full flavors

Ta'golazo is a counter-serve Mexican restaurant and fast-food kitchen at 2247 E 71st Street in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. Tacos, burritos, burrito bowls, quesadillas, tortas, nachos, dinners, breakfast tacos, sopes, and tostadas all come from one ordering line, and the menu boards above the counter are the source of truth for what is running.

You order at the counter, keep your numbered receipt, and pick up when the number is called. A sign at the register asks customers to save the numbered receipt so orders are handed to the right person, and a make-your-own burrito bowl sign walks through the four-step build for first-timers.

The listing notes delivery through Grubhub and Uber Eats with home delivery within a three-mile radius. Dine-in customers can sit at the counter or at a table, and the outdoor patio behind the restaurant is open when the weather cooperates.

The menu runs from breakfast tacos and elote to a quesabirria dinner served with consome. If you are new, start with a taco in your preferred style; the services pages below break down every part of the board and what to ask when you order.

Weekly specials appear on a board by the register: Tuesday tacos, a Wednesday buy-one-dinner-get-one-drink deal, and Thursday tortas in the captures of the listing. Deals rotate, so the current board wins over anything written here, and the counter is happy to read the board out loud while you decide.

Most orders follow the same simple path: pick a base, pick a meat, pick a finish. The same steak, pastor, adobada, grilled chicken, chorizo, and veggie options repeat across the menu, so once you know your favorite meat you can order it in a taco, a sope, a quesadilla, or a torta.

The signature orange salsa contains peanuts, per the counter sign, so customers with allergies should tell the staff when ordering. Everything else on the plate is built to order, and the counter is set up for both quick pickup and a relaxed sit-down meal.

The drinks board rounds out the order: can drinks, Mexican Coke in glass bottles, Jarritos, homemade horchata, lemonade, and bottled water. Horchata is the house favorite with anything spicy, and the Wednesday special pairs a dinner with a can drink in the listing captures.