Taco Guys
Cooks working the grill at your event for the length of the booking.
Serving Orange County, California & surrounding areas
Open Daily 8am–6pm
Serving Orange County, California & surrounding areas
Open Daily 8am–6pm
Placentia Event Catering
Tacos cooked at your event anywhere in Placentia, for quinceañeras, christenings, birthdays and graduation parties. We arrive with everything, cook in front of your guests, and tidy up on the way out.
Quinceañeras, christenings, first communions and the big multigenerational birthdays are the heart of what gets booked here. Long guest lists, several generations in one room, and often a hall rather than a house because that is where everybody fits. We staff the counter to the number so a hundred and fifty guests move through steadily.
A fair amount of that happens in the city's community buildings. If your reception or christening is at the Gomez Community Center, the Backs Community Building or the Whitten Center, we cook there and your kitchen arrangements do not come into it. We arrive with the grill and the food and work from a counter we bring.
Up in the newer streets north and east the lots are bigger and the party is usually at home instead: graduation parties in the yard, milestone birthdays, people entertaining on a patio. Same service, just more room to set the counter where you want it.
There is also weekday work in the south, where the warehouses and light industry sit. Crew lunches and a holiday party at the end of the year, both on a clock, because people have a shift to get back to. Tell us the window and we will have food going out inside it.
Image: The counter set up and working at a hall reception.
One booking covers the cooking and everything around it.
What we need in return is a level patch for the counter and enough space in front of it for guests to line up. We bring our own grill and fuel, so a park shelter with nothing laid on works the same as a hall with a kitchen behind it.
Three of these are names for the same service. You may have searched for any of them.
Cooks working the grill at your event for the length of the booking.
The counter in front of them, restocked through the service so it never runs thin.
A cart that comes in, runs the party and goes out again.
More cooks go on when the number is high. That is the difference between a line that keeps moving and one that backs up.
Your guest asks at the counter and watches the plate go together, so nothing was decided for them beforehand.
The meat is cooked without heat. The salsas sit at the end for whoever wants them.
Your own kitchen stays out of it, whether you are in a hall, a park or at home.
Roughly $15 to $30 a guest. Feeding two hundred works out cheaper per person than feeding forty, because the crew makes the same journey for both.
Beyond the numbers, what shifts it is the breadth of the menu, whether you want drinks or sides alongside, and the hours we are serving for. Tell us those and you get a firm total.
Four stages. The first is the only one that needs you.
Tell us the day, what time it starts, how many are coming, what the occasion is and the venue: hall, park, back yard or workplace.
We settle the proteins, then the toppings and sides, then anything anyone needs us to avoid.
We agree what time the crew lands and how many hours they serve for, working from when you want plates going out.
You have the menu, the hours and the price confirmed ahead of the day.
The whole city, from Old Town up to the north side.
We work Old Town and the Packing House District, Atwood out to the east, and the newer streets up in north Placentia. Outdoors that often means Kraemer Memorial, Tuffree, Koch or Bradford; indoors it means the city's community buildings.
None of that changes what you pay. The price comes off guest numbers and serving hours.
We also cover Fullerton, Yorba Linda, Brea, Anaheim, Villa Park, Orange, La Habra, Buena Park, Garden Grove and North Tustin.
A date, an approximate head count and the occasion is all it takes. We will come back with a menu and a figure.
Tell Us About It
The first plate tells you whether the food is any good. The second trip, twenty minutes later, tells you the evening is going well. Nobody makes that walk twice for a tray that has been sitting out.