The parents at Taco Bell have lastly carried out one thing I didn’t count on: create a menu merchandise that largely doesn’t style prefer it’s from Taco Bell. A number of bites into the chain’s new Steak & Bacon Grilled Cheese Burrito, I puzzled if my mouth was transported to a TGI Fridays, Applebee’s, or Ruby Tuesday as a result of I tasted cheese and bacon potato skins. However after reeducating myself about what was stuffed into and grilled onto the flour tortilla, all of it made sense.
The restricted time menu merchandise options marinated grilled steak, nacho cheese sauce, creamy chipotle sauce, potatoes, diminished fats bitter cream, and a three-cheese mix wrapped inside a heat flour tortilla with extra of the three-cheese mix and bacon grilled on high. Earlier than consuming it, I fully forgot concerning the spuds in there, so it was shocking when my style buds seen informal eating appetizer flavors as a substitute of Tex-Mex quick meals. As a fan of potato skins, I can get behind this.
Whereas Taco Bell has been grilling cheese on the tortilla since 2020, together with bacon is a novel addition that makes one thing distinctive by itself a little bit extra particular. However that bacon isn’t there simply to be novel; it helps the menu merchandise style rather less Taco Bell-y with its porky and smoky flavors. Positive, the grilled bacon on my order makes the burrito’s exterior look scabby, nevertheless it additionally makes it style in no way shabby.
However with these few bites that didn’t get any potatoes, the specter of Taco Bell flavors peeked out, because of the three components that enable virtually each Taco Bell menu merchandise to have simply two levels of separation — nacho cheese sauce, bitter cream, and the three-cheese mix. The tender steak, which has been used very often this yr in new merchandise, provides its meatiness to the burrito, which additionally offers the menu merchandise a little bit of a steak and potatoes vibe. Lastly, the creamy chipotle sauce added a smokiness that helped improve the bacon’s smokiness and a gentle kick.
I’ve had so many various steak burritos from Taco Bell over time, however I can’t say lots of them had been memorable. However this Steak & Bacon Grilled Cheese Burrito will stick in my thoughts for some time as a result of it was fairly pleasant, and I can’t get the highway rash-looking exterior out of my head.
Bought Value: $6.99*
Score: 8 out of 10
Diet Information: 700 energy, 39 grams of fats, 16 grams of saturated fats, 0 grams of trans fats, 85 milligrams of ldl cholesterol, 1730 milligrams of sodium, 57 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 5 grams of sugar, and 30 grams of protein.
*As a result of I stay on a rock in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, issues are a bit pricier right here. You’ll most likely pay lower than I did.
