This location cannot be trusted on their closing time. Online it says 4am-4-30am, closed. But sometimes it's 3:45am (like today), other times it's 3:30am, there's just no way of knowing. So for people who work overnight, we roll the dice on if our entire lunch break is going to be a waste that I know have to grab something from the gas station. Might just peace out on Del Taco all together because clearly no one oversees whether employees follow directives or not. Who knows what else they're slacking on... read more

Impressive for a fast food place - Counter service was fast and accurate on order. Food came or quickly and correct and looked like the pictures not food that had been sitting for hours. Restaurant and rest rooms really clean. This was a very "together" Del Taco read more

Super friendly staff! Order using a BOGO deal on the app. Crispy ranch tacos were good. A little too heavy on the ranch but I made do :)

This the best Del Taco in OC by far. Great team that gives excellent service! Always friendly and makes super items! read more

Drive though Closed at 1:15 Friday night/ Saturday morning, says 24 hrs. Staff clearly inside. Turned off the lights to drive through to deter people from coming through. You suck read more

This Del Taco looked like a new clean location. I was driving home late at night from LA to San Diego and I passed two other Del tacos that were open because this one was right off the freeway come to find out it is not open 24 hours. There was employees inside the lights were on there looked like there was six cars in the parking lot However, upon going to the speaker, there was a sign I pulled around and saw that other people were being humped at the window so I thought oh maybe they're taking online orders only try to place an online order... Did not work in that timeframe and Employee came outside with a new sign Extend their close hours even further.. If I had known, I wasn't gonna be able to order anything I would've stopped at one of Del Taco's but I'm not doubling back and unfortunately between here and my house there's no more 24 hour del tacos. Jack in the Box's are always open, and much more consistent than Del Taco, even though I prefer Del Taco's food. read more

Del Taco - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

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READ ME! The owner only gets 1 star Only because they have an awesome male employee there that has been so great every time I'm there. I wish I knew his name but he often does the drive thru and he is so sweet. I've been going to this Del Taco for 15 years. I average 2-3 visits a week. Yes, I'm hooked; don't judge me. The last several visits they have SIGNIFICANTLY skimped on the food. The bean and cheese burritos have so little cheese and sauce you can barely see it even. The chili cheese fries, the chili and cheese covers only 1/4 (no exaggeration) of the fries. And then the latest, I got the 3 layer queso nachos and the cheese was Literally on ONE chip. ONE. So I brought them back in and the sweet guy fixed it but as I'm walking out I hear who I assume is the owner complain to him about not charging me AN EXTRA DOLLAR "for extras." So I walk back to her and tell her how ridiculous she was and how charging me for the Regular amount is exactly how she's going to lose a lot of customers. I know I'm not the only one. 15 years I've been going there. I will NEVER go back just on principle. I'll drive 10 minutes out of my way just to go to the Dana Point or Aliso Viejo locations. Sweet guy, I'll miss your kindness. But this economy is hard enough. Blatantly getting ripped off shows how little the owner cares about their customers. I hope they close or get bought out by a better owner. read more

Ordered Door Dash. All the ground beef was rotten. Stank like blue cheese. Absolutely disgusting. Had to throw 80% of my order away. Seriously disgusted. read more

Ordered country fried steak and eggs with pancakes on Postmates. They didn't even put any fucking gravy on the country fried steak also ordered a syrup caddy and I didn't get any syrup for my pancakes. Paid 28 bucks for this. The place is obviously ran by a clown because look at how bad the rating is for this place. I don't know what I expected. Just here eating a dry country fried steak and dry pancakes. read more

Good chicken soft tacos I recommend it for U! The service is chill but still good! Good fries try the scorcho sause its great on your chicken soft tacos. Overall nice place. (Nothing that expensive)! read more

Just walked in here with my daughter. Completely empty inside & drive-thru. Several employees looked at us but didn't say hi, wait a minute or anything at all. We waited for a while and just left. WTF??? read more

Went here this morning attempting to stop at a new one on the way to work. Ordered my usual number 2 with no lettece and sauce and got it covered in lettuce. Ordered a crunchy taco no lettuce and same thing!! Tried to call but no answer and they then hung up when I got through So now on my lunch I have to go back read more

Super friendly and kind workers in the drive through. Really appreciate them! Also the french fries are the best (:

Quick and easy fast food option. It's a cheaper version of Taco Bell. Plenty of locations so you can get their street tacos which is quite yummy. I used to get their ice coffee but recently they changed the formula and it taste a lot of cinnamon. Don't like it. read more

This place sucks bad! Every time I go here it's always the same crap not fresh. They forget my order just a terrible ran place terrible place to eat. I understand that fast food is fast food but when you can go get Del taco in Irvine off Alton and almost 100% guaranteed it's as fresh as it can be This place on Avery sucks stay away from this place! read more

just spent 30 on door dash and specifically added sauce to my order and it didn't come! literally ruined my whole meal! do better like who is packing this food? do you not read the order! not to mention I ordered no tomato in my burger there was tomato and my fries were cold! complete wast of my money read more

The manager today at 10:30pm 02/09, didn't give me sauce . So I had to improvise also, I said small fries, not small rice; I didn't know they sell rice at Del Taco read more

Del Taco - Snack Taco - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

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All I wanted to do was place a doordash order because I have the flu and don't feel good enough to drive. But everytime I do they always mess up my order so I called in to tell them to make sure they don't put any tomatoes because I'm allergic but they deliberately don't answer the phone on purpose after 4 times of calling they answered and just stayed silent they didn't say one word then they hung up and cut off the phone lines so you can't call anymore this is the worst customer service I've ever fucking had these teenage workers are shit no one is forcing you to work at Del taco if you don't like the job don't fucking work there. read more

Once again, it's only fast food you can't go wrong. Not exactly the healthiest meal but definitely hits the spot on a hot Tuesday afternoon read more

Del Taco - Proof I was here - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

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Went in for lunch yesterday with my boyfriend and we were greeted by Leo who was very friendly, polite, patient and kind throughout our visit. We highly recommend this location if you want fresh food AND most importantly, the correct order. Thank you Leo for your exceptional service!! read more

I was looking for somewhere quick to grab a small bite to eat. So I pulled into the Del Taco drive thru. I ordered an egg, cheese, and bacon breakfast burrito. When I bit into it, the cheese wasn't even melted and the food was barely warm. As I continued eating, there was so much red sauce! A couple bites in, the red sauce came gushing out of the burrito. It overpowered the food so much. I can't even finish the burrito. Fortunately, it was only like $4.50 but still, it was a waste. read more

Del Taco - Breakfast Burrito - egg, cheese, bacon - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

Found a dead fly in my taco shell... ate my taco half way thru before I found something black stuck between the meat and sour cream... please stay on top of this! I feel very nauseous now... read more

Del Taco - a taco with cheese and lettuce - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

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Been going to this location for 10+ years, and it's always been above average. Then they got some very good managers, and it got even better. I don't know exactly when, but it seems like after the remodel, it went downhill. I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that 80% of the time, at least one item was missing. But I just dealt with it. Today, we were missing one taco (that we paid for.) None of the other tacos that we paid to add sour cream to ... had any sour cream. Not happy about that, but that's part of fast food and drive through (even though it never use to happen here.) But the final straw is instead of remaking a taco where the shell had cracked, they just slapped a new shell around it. It's tiny in the grand scheme of things obviously, but if they take that little pride in making a simple taco, I'm done. read more

Del Taco - Broken shell with new shell slapped around it - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

Quite possibly one of the worst executions of a drive through order I've ever seen. About 30 min ago. 3 people ordered food. 0/3 were correct. Nice work guys! read more

Came on Christmas Eve and they were working so hard even dealing with the rude people mad about the "wait" thank you to the employees that are here on Christmas Eve! read more

This location is a struggle-bus at times. My kids and I used to have a tradition of driving through Del Taco before school on Fridays. A cheap and easy tradition. My daughter is picky, the only thing she'll eat are off the value menu thankfully, the Chicken Ranch Rollers. Nothing else will she accept. Her usual order, 3 Chicken Ranch Rollers. 2 for breakfast and saves 1 for her lunch. My son is a garbage disposal, so he and I usually order a few of the cheaper breakfast burritos. Our little tradition hit a pothole last month. My daughter's were delivered as Fish Tacos. 3. Fish. Tacos. Ugh. "Sorry, honey. It's too late to fix it or else we'll be late for school." She chose the hunger strike option. No breakfast and no lunch. Thanks to Covid, parents can't drop off a lunch. Fast forward to the following Friday. We leave an extra 10 min early to allow for the drive-thru line. But this time...we waited OVER 20 MINUTES for the same order! Only 2 cars ahead. But now we're stuck and I don't want my daughter to have to go without again...so we wait...even though we're going to be late. When we finally got to the window and got our order and pulled away...guess what my daughter received as her Chicken Ranch Rollers substitutes...you guessed it. 3 Fish Tacos. I parked and tried to go in to get her Chicken Ranch Rollers...but it was 7:30am and they wouldn't open the door. So for the 2nd consecutive Friday, my daughter is going without breakfast, and this time, she's late as well. Haha. Del Taco, well done...you've convinced us that you are too big of a risk for our Friday morning tradition to continue. It was good while it lasted. read more

I came here tonight at 11:55pm hopingbto get some late night food. I ordered the $6 box which supposed to come with 2 chicken soft tacos, a chicken quesadilla, fries, and a drink. It wasnt busy at drive thru, the person who took my order either seemed tired , out of it, or english wasnt his strong point. Something was off. I come home to find my order is incomplete! I had noticed he had dropped my box before giving it to me, so maybe my item fell out and he failed to have them redo it. ? But something was way OFF!! I tried calling the establishment at 12:20am , yea im that person and no one is there! What sucks is that theybare doing late night construction causing it to be hard to get it and out of this location! So there is no excuse why the service was below average! I ordered an ice cream and watched him throw out at least 4 cones before he gave mine . It was wierd. I dont recommend this location! Instead maybe mission viejo off oso & la paz, or aliso viejo. read more

Del Taco - Was supposed to get this! I got half the order And paid for more than i got! - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

Such an embarrassment to any Del taco restaurant, but this is by far a ridiculous line isn't even moving and the same red truck has been at the speaker for over 10 minutes now. This is not fast food whatsoever at two in the morning. You guys should have this drive-thru moving. read more

Del Taco - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

Friendly front counter ordering person. There was nobody in line when I went to order, but food seemed to take longer than I expected. Might have been due to mostly people going to the drive-thru. I thought the food was good. Hit the spot. I ate outside where they have several tables. The music was a little loud blasting from the speaker, which made it a little hard to conversate, but if you like some pop music, there you go. Overall satisfied with this authentic del Taco food. read more

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I don't know if I've been to a worse drive thru. I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and chalk up a bad experience to maybe a one off, but every visit to this Del Taco has been bad. Not for the food, but for whoever is manning the drive thru. Greeting "what do you need?" is bad enough but then "is that it?" after I ask for fries, cutting me off then snapping at me for the size. Think I'm done & only reviewing because I'm actually shocked at just how blatantly bad this place is. Either treat the staff better or get rid of the ones treating customers like an inconvenience for daring to drive up to an open drive thru. read more

Your employee was rude, I said hello several times, I was not answered anything, when I arrived at the window I was told that the restaurant is not working, but after 2-3 minutes he served someone I want to tell him that he is an asshole! read more

This review is for the amazing Christina. She is as other yelpers advertise. I was shocked sitting at the driver thru speaker. Could this woman be real?? She is so friendly and asked questions you could tell were not on the Del taco script. Way above and beyond the call of duty. Her sincere care for customers is one that I have never experienced at a fast food restaurant. I am grateful for meeting Christina. She will be promoted or recruited elsewhere for sure. read more

This place should be reported for their political stance. The food is subpar as usual but the key issue is that when pressed about the stickers the attendant asked me what my political affiliations were instead of removing the stickers. Shame on Del taco for allowing this location to play politics. read more

Del Taco - Trump Taco - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

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The last review seems to have this place spot on. Don't trust the hours listed, apparently it's NOT open 24 hours. I drove here after visiting my son in the hospital hoping to grab some grub at 4:00 AM and discovered that nobody was working at the time. What a major disappointment read more

Del Taco - Dishonest business operating hours. NOT OPEN 24 HR - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

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Amazing food for 1;47am whoever was back there deserves a raise man, everything fresh and hot cooked perfectly. I would pay more than what I did that's how satisfied I am, writing this while eating it. read more

Look, I love Del Taco like anyone does. This location however says it's open 24 hrs. This is my second time here this week after midnight. There are people inside and the lights are on but the drive thru is blocked by a truck and I tried the door and it's locked. If you are not open 24 hrs turn off the lights and update your Google hours. Drive 10 minutes to get here craving Fries and a cheese cassiddea and now I'm having to go next door to Jack In the Box just like last time. LAME! Update your hours online and stop making me consider you at 2am yoyo's! read more

Del Taco - 24 hour del taco closed at midnight! WTF. - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California

One of the worst bean and cheese burritos I have ever had. Could not finish it. Beans were old. Tortilla was hard and there was barely any cheese nor red sauce. Also absolutely no cinnamon sugar on the churros which wasn't as surprising cause no one seems to make churros properly anymore. The kid at the window was nice normally the window operators are too stoned to function but this kid was awesome! Cooks need to be fired or retrained. 2/18/24 at 12:10pm. Only Dana point Del taco seems to know how to make proper bean and cheese burritos. I'm so tired of south OC Del tacos seem to suck terribly read more

It's truly remarkable how slow this drive thru is. Never seen anything like it. And it's not just because there's usually only one or two people working late. The one over in town center in Aliso always has one guy working it by himself late night and it moves just fine. This place is literally like 5-10 minutes per car if you go after like 11 pm. I'll give them 2 stars because it seems ok during the day, but they need to sort their late night problems out. No one wants to wait 25-30+ minutes at 1 AM behind 5-6 cars for a burrito. It's been like this for months, if not over a year. read more

I've been coming to this Del Taco for years. Maybe 15 or 16 at this point. It's really the best Del Taco around. The staff is friendly, and they always make my complicated orders correctly. There has definitely been an uptick in teenage workers in this location over the last few years, but I haven't had a bad experience ever. I'll always recommend this location over others in the area! read more

I always think, "Who has time to review a fast food place?", now I get it. I had an experience that I am now having to take the time out of my day to let the world know to avoid this place. I've come to this Del Taco about a dozen times over the last year and usually had your average fast-food experience. I worked retail through high school and college so I know what these workers deal with working with the general public. I give fast food places a lot of slack when I am their patron but last night was bad. It was about 9 pm on 08/02/2020. I used the drive-thru and paid for my purchase only to realize I forgot to have them scan the QR code on my DelTaco phone app for a coupon. When the drive-thru attendant came back with my food I asked if he could please use the coupon. He said no because the transaction was completed. I would normally accept this and move on, but I suggested maybe he could refund my whole order and ring it back up, but with the coupon this time? I know it can be annoying to handle a request like mine, and I normally don't ask for favors, but I really wanted to use this coupon, it was the only reason why I chose to go to Del Taco that night. He looked a little upset I even gave him a rebuttal. He asked what looked like an older guy (Manager?) something then returned to me and asked for my credit card and my phone. I happily obliged, handed over my phone and credit card then double-checked my order while they were "helping" me. I noticed one of my burritos was missing so when the drive-thru attendant walked back to me I let him know nicely that I appreciate the help and also I was missing the burrito. He again looked disgruntled, didn't say anything, and turned around. I watched him go to the prep area and retrieve a burrito. He returned to hand me the burrito and to let me know, and I quote, "Please remember to have your coupon next time, you are holding up the line". I looked in my rearview mirror and there was one car behind me. One. I looked back at the drive-thru attendant and said I apologize, but I have had to sit in thousands of lines and wait for other people to finish their transactions. He just stared back at me. The whole time the older worker (Manager?) is fiddling with the register. This has taken all of 3 minutes so far. The attendant walks to the register and then returns to the window and barks that my phone has turned off and hands it back. No problem, I unlock it, hand it back. Another minute goes by and the attendant returns to show me a receipt with the original refund amount of my order at -$9.82 and advises it will take a few days to show up on my credit card statement. He then hands me a folded receipt saying that is the transaction with the $3 off coupon applied. I thank him again because he did get my coupon applied and then I drive off. I was not really happy that I had to tell him how he should apply the coupon since he said he couldn't (He lied or had never dealt with a refund before?). Also not happy that they forgot one of my burritos and then told me I was holding up their line. *News Flash* I don't pull away from drive-thru windows without checking that all of my items are there anyway. I would have been waiting for you to make my missing burrito anyway. Well, it gets better. I get home and look at the folded receipt to confirm a charge for $3 less than the $9.82 original charge. NOPE. I see my original order, the $3 off coupon, AND 2 medium drinks @ $2.49 each as well as a Chocolate shake for $3.99. I never ordered any drinks, let alone 3. I am only one man. See picture. Total charged with tax - $16.25. Well, they did get my coupon right at least. I am not saying this is intentional, but I almost feel like it was at this point given the rude interactions with the drive-thru attendant and what appeared to be a struggling manager dealing with my request. So all and all, as it stands, I was OVER charged $9.66. Next time I am in the area I will be stopping by to get my $9.66 back. In this time when a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet, bs like this is unacceptable. It's down to the principle now, I don't want a place like that getting my hard-earned money. I will also mention the drive-thru attendant was wearing a mask and gloves. BUT, the same gloves he handled my burrito/food with, were the same gloves he handled my credit card and phone with. Gross. I've used other drive-thrus during the pandemic and have seen better ways to deal with taking payments and handling the food. I ended up just throwing it all away when I got home due to this. Hope the franchise owner or Corporate reads this so they can help train their staff better. I won't be coming back to this location except to get my money back. I'll be surprised if the refund for $9.82 even shows up, if it doesn't, that means $26.07 for what should have been a $6.58 transaction for food I didn't end up eating due to gross standards. read more

Del Taco - Left to Right, original purchase, voided/refund, over charged for items I never ordered or received. - Mexican Near Me - Mission Viejo, California