Taco House

I have been going to the Taco House all 29 years I have been alive. The food is always good, and the place never really changes. I find myself driving an hour each way just to take my own kids there for a special summer treat, just like my parents did for me, and my mothers parents did for her.

They are open... they are delicious.. they need to expand. Taking the day off to go for lunch and some green sauce.

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Our food was completely greasy, not hot and we waited forever, considering there was almost no one there.

The Taco House is amazing! My only complaint is this... for a business that does not want their phone number listed (understandable) you would think that they would do a better job of advertising their hours. Today is openning day and my family and I would like to go but we live 1/2 hour away and would like to know that if we make the drive, they will be open. I have searched the internet, looked through the paper at the big ads saying they were open, and called everyone I can think of. No one is sure about their hours.

I also have grown up eating at Taco House. It was one of those things, if you‘re going to the beach you might as well stop by Taco House. My cousins worked at Taco House when they were in high school so seeing them was a good excuse for the most amazing tacos in northwest Iowa.

The best food in the lakes area!!!! We can‘t wait for it to reopen every year.

I called Taco Casa in Des Moines to see when The Taco House in Arnolds park opens. I was told it would be opening in mid March, but they didn‘t want to give me an exact date, because it may change due to the weather. The lady that owns the Taco House in Arnolds Park also owns Taco Casa in Des Moines. She‘s soo lucky :)

The Taco House has the best nachos and homemade salsa ever! Taco house is one of my favorite places to eat :) I‘ve been waiting for the taco house to open since they‘ve closed for the winter. I need to quit talking about the Taco House b/c my mouth is watering and they aren‘t open until March, so I can‘t eat there right now :( They need to be open year round!
Does anyone know the exact day the Taco House will open in March? My friends and I have plans on taking work off the day Taco House opens. We are going to eat there for lunch and dinner:) YUMMY YUMMY IN MY TUMMY!

What can I say? Simply Amazing!!! It‘s January now and my friends and I are already counting down the days until it opens back up!!!

I grew up eating at the Taco House. My friends and I would drive up in spring after school just to eat dinner. My family is there on opening weekend every year. My 1 year old daughter at there for the first time this summer. She ate her whole taco. There is nothing better than going to the taco house and enjoying the great food, spending time with the family and making new memories!

I grew up across the street in Maywood and ate there frequently in the 70‘s and 80‘s, but then hadn‘t been back for 15 years. However, my parents would often make 2 1/2 hour trips there just to stock the freezer with burritos, and always went the first weekend they were open in the spring. Last summer I went back myself and brought home 50 dollars worth of burritos. I now drive back there from Minneapolis on day trips just to get this food. This place, hands down, has the best burritos I have ever tasted. Hope the place never closes. I wonder, whatever ever happened to Jack (the original owner?) I remember him smoking his cigar! Is the restaurant (and the one in Des Moines) still in the family?

This place has by far the best salsa I have had at a Restaurant. It‘s homemade.

I love the place, just wish it was open year round!!!
I have alwas ate there and alwas will go there and eat over anything else.

I‘ve gone to the Taco House for 35+ years & love it. Usually get a chili dog so can‘t comment on the "Mexicality" of the food. I do miss the bug zappers from the old place. The dead flies on the ground around it look just like the spices in the hot sauce. Mmmm...

I used to live in spencer and hadnt ate at the taco house for about 18 years. I went back up a couple of summers ago and it was still just as good as way back then. I brought home enchiladas and froze them. I still have one in fridgerator and just dont have the heart to eat it since i dont no when i will be back up there again. If anyone is coming from up there to southeast iowa i would love dearly love it if you would let me know and bring some back for me:)

Great food!! We come here at least once a week in the summer. You will never find nachos this good anywhere else.

I think it is overrated, average food that takes forever. Perhaps more of a nostalgia thing than quality. I do usually go once a summer because I have been everywhere else.

Only the best mexican in the midwest. I have found myself making 4 hour trips from Sioux City just to enjoy a soft shell taco, rice, and the most amazing hot sauce on earth (though not really hot...weird). If I ever move farther away I will at least make a yearly trip, or have them mail me a freezer order.

Anyone who thinks the Taco House has wonderful Mexican food has never eaten Mexican food. I‘ve had tacos from a roadside stand that were better....good milkshakes though.

I am from Sprit Lake originally and when I go back home to visit I buy a freezer full of tacos to bring home (without the lettuce on them of course) and as much of their hot sauce as I can carry!
I love the place, I can‘t wait to try out Des Moines.

Although I have to agree that The Taco House is very dirty at times it has amazing food. Again it is staffed by highschoolers but again the food is great. My wife and I have driven 4 hours one way just to eat here. Every time we come to the Taco House we have to bring a cooler. My inlaws send money with us to get them food. I have to say that this is among the best Mexican food I have ever had.

Don‘t listen to that guy from California, this place is the best place around. The soft shell tacos and nachos are the best I have ever eaten. It is dirty, but it‘s the greatest!

Dont listen to those up tight locals. Taco house is the best food in okoboji....im a local high schooler.....and its a great hangout for everyone....prices are cheap and there hot sause is DA bomb..

I wont argue with you, a lot of high school kids work there that don‘t care much about it, and it is pretty dirty, but why is it so popular if it‘s so terrible? I hate mexican food, but i die for their nachos!

Whenever we go to "The Lake" we HAVE to stop at Taco Casa! Thank goodness they have a sister restaurant in Des Moines called Taco House so we can enjoy it all year around!!!

really...I mean really bad mexican food.
Also...seems to be run by high school kids who could give a rip. And dirty, dirty, dirty. I‘m a local, and always hear
about how wonderful this joint is. Am I
in a non-parallel universe?

Wow, those are the first people i have ever seen that don‘t like taco house, that‘s surprising. Either way, the food is awsome in my opinion, i just wish i could have it year round.

Coming from California, and eating alot of authentic mexican food, I can honestly say this is the worst mexican food I have ever had. I even went back a second time to try something else on the menu, and it was still terrible. YUK

omg im a local and i hate this place, worst mexican around, anywhere

October and the Taco House is still incredible!! We will miss you, hurry back!

THe BEST Mexican in the Okoboji area is found at the Taco House. The last reviewer must have had a sun stroke!

If you‘re a local, you have to go to the Taco House at least once/week. It‘s the Best!!!

best taco‘s in the world! (almost as good as taco casa in des moines!)

I HATE the Taco House! I have never been to a filthier restaurant in Okoboji!!

One of the things I miss about living in the Lakes area is the great food at Taco House! Will be traveling back to the area for a visit and will not miss Taco House while we are there!

Seriously love this food. Haven‘t met a single person so far that hasn‘t. You MUST try this if you are visiting the lakes area.

Taco house is incedible. My wife has never had and is in for a real treat when i take my family there for the first time!

i love the taco house i actually am employed there now but will be moving to another job here soon but the food is unbelievable

Love the Taco House. Try and go a couple times a month during the summer! I‘ve been going there since I was a little girl! You gotta love the Taco House! It Rocks! All meat burritos are the best!

Family tradition... my family‘s been going to Boji for 30 years and Taco House is must at least once while we‘re there... its so darn good!!! You can‘t not stop at least once in your life at the Taco House... its fabulous!

Taco house rocks my socks off!!! Great food, Great employees. What more can you ask for? Everyone should check it out!!

I feel like a beer in hibernation through the winter months without the Taco House! Then when spring comes and it opens my long nightmare is finally over!!!!

I LOVE THE TACO HOUSE !!!! Yummy....It‘s only been open for a week and a half and I‘ve eaten there 3 times already....nachos royale and guacamole....Love it...every body, locals and tourists alike, should check this place out...

I heard the Taco House is opening this week...Is it true??? If not, does anybody know when it is opening? I can‘t wait....I think I may drive up there today just to see! I live in Spencer!

Opens TOMORROW!!!

Low prices and great food. It‘s a local hangout and we count the days before it opens! Nachos are out of this world good! A unique flavor that can‘t be made anywhere else! And the salsas are to die-for! I‘m looking forward to the addition.. :) AND THE DAY WHEN IT OPENS BACK UP FOR SUMMER!

I love Taco House! I am an employee and can‘t get enough. The customers are really great, it is true that the wait can be long, but we work hard to get the food out as fast as we can! Taco House has just put on an addition so I encourage everyone to come and check it out! We will be opening soon!

My favorite Mexican restaurant. I even prefer it to the nicer sit-down joints.

There was a fly in my taco !

I dont know what could have given the fellow local that idea...We do as locals go to the Taco house. We love it and eat there often. Highly recommended for very the very good food and beyond casual atmosphere!

I love this place. I‘m in the navy now and I‘ve been all over the country, but this little taco joint is my absolute favorite of all time. The salsas are fantastic and the Burrito con Chili is my must have dish. It‘s nice to be able to eat indoors or out, but occasionally the wait is a little long due to the crowd.

im a local and i ate here twice my whole life and both times it made me puke. once when i was 16 and then when i was 21. gross