Taco the Town

This BEST OF T3 Summer Taco-cation Edition takes us back to Summer 2019 when we took the show to LOS ANGELES and taste tested the tasty tacos at SALAZAR!!! Enjoy! 

This week we take another splash into some BEST OF TACO THE TOWN Goodness for SUMMER TACO-CATION SEASON as we take a look back at the time we ventured out to TIPSY TACO at LAKE LOTAWANA, the perfect KC Metro SUMMER TACO-CATION Destination!!! Enjoy this BEST OF Episode from back in August 2019!! 

This week we hop in the way back machine AND hop in a VAN (Dave's favorite Summer Vacation Vessel!) That's right, it's another BEST OF T3 Flashback as we eat Tacos in A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER IN KC! A VanLifeKC Van to be exact! What a perfect vehicle to make your Summer Taco-Cation Dreams Come True! This one is from back in MARCH of 2021! 

We're kicking off Summer 2025 by listening back to some of our fun SUMMER TACO-CATION Trips in the past! Like this week's episode when we went up to the Windy TACO City of CHICAGO and sampled some of their tasty tacos! Recorded in JULY 2019. 

Sometimes we gotta venture outside of KC proper to taste test the tasty tacos in other neighboring Taco Towns and that's what we're doing this week...hitting LOS GUAPOS LATIN FOOD in LAWRENCE, KANSAS with special returning guests DAN & SAM BILLEN (Primary Color Music, The Post Haus & Adventures in Advertising Podcast!) Dan (who walks to Los Guapos multiple times a week to eat their tacos)...

This week we're celebrating National Margarita Day at another new KC Taco Spot...DOS TEQUILAS KC in Shawnee, Kansas! With our special guest Taco Reviewer Actress & Comedian TIFFANY MICHELLE! And not only are we taste testing tasty tacos...we are taste testing tasty TORTAS! In a T3 FIRST Dave takes a bite of one of the most delicious Tortas he's ever had and it's a life-changer! Also Tiffany te...

Once again we're checking out a new KC area Taco spot and this week's episode finds us back in Overland Park, Kansas at TACOS BORRACHOS with our special guest Taco Reviewers THE WEATHERFORD BROTHERS (STEVE & MIKE!) It's Chiefs Super Bowl Week so we're finding out Steve & Mike's Big Game Party Plans! (Any game day rituals? And what's your go to Super Bowl Snack? Did someone say HUMAN SIZED...

It's our first episode of 2025 and we're hitting a new taco spot up in Historic Downtown Parkville, Missouri....K-TACOS & MORE with our special guest Taco Reviewer NANCY LE from @EatswithNancy on Instagram! We chat about where Nancy ate KC RESTAURANT WEEK and what some of her favorite Northland Taco Spots are! We also get to the bottom of Nancy's foodie travels and find out the best place to g...

We're heading south for this year's Christmas Episode...down to the Ozarks...to the CHRISTMAS TREE CAPITAL OF AMERICA...BRANSON, MISSOURI to have a good ole fashioned Ozark Mountain Taco Christmas!!! Our special guests this week are Actors/Performers  CONRAD AND TIFFANY BEAR, who appeared in the Hallmark Christmas Film "Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story" and who also grace the Branson stage a...

We're always making KC Taco History here on TACO THE TOWN and this episode is no different as we become the FIRST HUMANS TO EAT TACOS ON THE KC WHEEL!! That's right! Dave and his special guests Dancers/Performers/Engaged Couple ANNIE DAUZAT & DAVID CROSS eat some tasty tacos from ACOSTA'S TAQUERIA (a new spot on Southwest Boulevard) on board the KC (Ferris) WHEEL which is celebrating 1 Year sp...

T3 is back at it checking out another new taco spot in the city of taco fountains! This week Dave and his guests KATE HAUGAN & CHRISTINA SCHAFER from the TART PARTY Podcast enjoy the tasty tacos at TAKO TAKO, a new Sonoran Taco spot on State Line!! Kate & Christina tell us all about their KC Food-centric podcast and even give us the inside scoop on some of their most recent favorite Kansas...

Happy Tacovember, Taco The Towners!! We've got another amazing new tacotastic Taco Spot for you this week and this one's FANCY! Winner of The Pitch's Best New Restaurant of 2023...it's BARBACOA, a KC BBQ/Mexican Cuisine Mashup! And this week's special guest Taco Reviewers tell us what they think of this hot new KC Taco Spot: JASON NIVENS from the Jason Nivens' Kansas City Podcast and years on KC R...

T3 is celebrating TacoWeen by hitting one of the newest Taco (and Tiki) Spots in the Crossroads...CONCHITA TACOS & KON TIKI!!! Two of Dave's Favorite things! TACOS N' TIKI! What a Combo! Dave is joined by special guest Tiki Critic/Painter/Art Teacher/World Traveler PAIGE CROSSWHITE! We cover a wide range of topics in this episode such as: A list of KC's Haunted Halloween Pop Ups! Paige tells u...

To celebrate 7 Years of Taco-ing The Town, we've got another Epic TACO THROWDOWN SHOWDOWN episode for you this week on T3! That's where we pit two Taco spots against each other in a titanic taco tussle to determine who has the tastiest tacos! And this time we've got two of the Newer Mission, Kansas Taco Spots going up against each other... CAMPESINO vs LOS GALLITOS!! It's the Gigantic Jostle on Jo...

On this episode of T3, Dave wishes everyone a HAPPY NATIONAL TACO DAY before taste testing the tasty tacos from STR-EATZ in South KC! (Not to be confused with STREATS in the Crossroads!) Dave is joined by special Guest Taco Reviewer MELISSA DWYER, a Taco Enthusiast, Hairstylist, Budtender, Actress and Up-and-Coming Stand Up Comedian who told us we just had to try her favorite taco spot...STR-EATZ!...

T3 is back in WESTPORT this week checking out another new KC Taco Spot, PINCHES TACOS, with our Special Guest Taco Reviewers LAUREN FLYNN, TIFFANY SMITH & AUBREY DYKEMAN from Kansas City Folk Pop Band OLIVIA FOX! They tell Dave all about what's next for the band, their favorite KC venues to perform at and what dangers they encounter playing rooftop gigs! (BIRDS!) Also they share with us Olivia...

This week we're hitting' up a new taco spot in one of Dave's old High School Cruisin' spots...TAQUIZA KS in Rosana Square with special guest Taco Reviewers from the KC Comedy Scene: JAKE (Jakin' Off Podcast) REDPATH, KASEY FAMOUS & EVAN CHRISTIAN GOLDT! (Who are all performing in the FOUNTAIN CITY COMEDY FESTIVAL this weekend in KC!! Get yer tickets!!) Dave and his guests get into some good Ro...

TACO THE TOWN IS BACK!! After a year hiatus, Dave returns from his time in the wilderness and aims to finish what he started...eat at all of the taco-rrific n' tasty taco spots KC has to offer! There have been a lot of new Taco spots open up in the past year and Dave has his sights on all of them! In this episode, Dave and his guests CHRIS LOST (Lost, Found &Rewound Podcast & Suneaters, Lo...

This week we look back on our HOLIDAY SPECIAL from 2020 when we sipped on some Tiki Drinks at TIKI HUNA at the IRON DISTRICT in North Kansas City with former Taco The Town All Stars KATE HAUGAN, STANN TATE, DAISHA JONES, CYNTHIA MALONE & NICK LECKEY! We also had some Holiday-rrific musical performances from Former T3 guests JOSH BERWANGER, KATLYN CONROY, SAM BILLEN, SOLOHAWK featuring TIL WILL...

Here's another Classic Holiday Episode of T3 for you from way back in December of 2018 when Dave and his pals recorded their first Holiday Cocktail Party Episode at TikiCat (a Tiki bar in Westport that sadly no longer exists!) The gang taste tests some delicious Tiki drinks, sings some seasonal favorites and chats about everything festive in this BEST OF T3 Episode from Christmases Long Long Ago!...

It's the Holiday Season so why not celebrate with some CLASSIC BEST OF HOLIDAY EPISODES OF TACO THE TOWN!! This one is from way back in December of 2017! It's our PANCHO'S Episode (Episode # 9) where we review Pancho's and a very special, jolly white-haired man stops by in the Middle of a Snowstorm! (No, Not Santa!) It's OLD MAN WINTER!! We hope you enjoy this Holiday Gem from Way back in 20171! H...

What better way to celebrate the Holiday Season by listening back to some CLASSIC T3 Holiday Episodes from the past 6 Years of taco Podcasting! This is our THANKSGIVING SPECIAL from back in 2018 when we had a Taco Feast at The DRUNKEN WORM (RIP!) With guests DAVIS DeROCK, CHAD CRENSHAW & SHAWNA DOWNING! HAVE A TACO-RRIFIC & TURKEY-RRIFIC THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY! 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! It's time to wrap up our month long 6th Birthday celebration here at TACO THE TOWN! But not before we drop one more classic BEST OF Episode of the show! Today's Episode is our super spooky HALLOWEEN Episode from back in October 2018 when we recorded the show overnight at the DOS REALES Mexican Restaurant in Shawnee which its employees claim to be haunted! We brought along Psychic...

Only a few more days in October to celebrate our 6th Birthday here on Taco The Town and that means only 2 more CLASSIC BEST OF Episodes!! Today's Re-Released Episode was one of the best Taco Days we here at T3 ever experienced  from back in November 2019 when we loaded up a Party Bus with Taco The Town All Star Guests and hit the highways and by-ways of the two Taco Cities (KC, MO & KCK) in a...

There are just a few days left to celebrate 6 YEARS OF TACO THE TOWN here in October!! So here's another CLASSIC BEST OF T3 Episode from back in December of 2020 when Dave and his guest BIRDIE HANSEN faced Dave's greatest fear (his 1 BAD TACO EXPERIENCE) and taste tested the tacos at FUZZY'S TACO SHOP! Will Birdie's Healing Crystals be able to cure Dave or will Fuzzy's disappoint again? You'll jus...