{"id":279045,"date":"2026-05-05T02:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:09:32","slug":"cinco-de-mayo-lands-on-taco-tuesday-here-are-the-best-deals-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279045\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinco de Mayo lands on Taco Tuesday. Here are the best deals in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinco de Mayo meets Taco Tuesday this year, more reason than ever to celebrate a truly Tex-Mex holiday.<\/p>\n

It was two Tejanos, Mexico Army Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza<\/a> of Goliad, Texas, and Capt. Porfirio Blanco with a troop from Alice, who led Mexico to victory over the invading French May 5, 1862.<\/p>\n

But Cinco de Mayo\u2019s Texas roots truly began in 1989. That\u2019s when a Dallas ad agency launched the Cinco marketing campaign to promote Corona beer.<\/p>\n

Since then, Texans have celebrated Cinco de Mayo along with residents of Puebla, Mexico, mainly by toasting Zaragoza with margarita specials and tacos galore.<\/p>\n

\"Gen.<\/p>\n

Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, hero of the Battle of Puebla, was born in La Bahia. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at a few celebrations, some more Tex than Mex (ask your favorite restaurant):<\/p>\n

\u25cf Blue Goose Cantina restaurants in Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Grapevine and North Richland Hills will serve $5 tacos, queso, margaritas, \u201cskinny\u201d margaritas and Jell-O shots; bluegoosecantina.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf Chuy\u2019s, founded in Austin but now owned by a Florida chain, will serve specials Monday and Tuesdays including four different $5 quesos, $6 margaritas and $9 large margaritas with a souvenir cup to help you remember.<\/p>\n

There are two Chuy\u2019s in Fort Worth plus Arlington, Hudson Oaks, Mansfield and Southlake; chuys.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf City Works Eatery and Pour House in the Shops at Clearfork is serving specials such as pork tenderloin al pastor along with lavender margaritas or a spicy watermelon paloma; 5288 Monahans Ave., cityworksrestaurant.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The \u201cFrito pie taco\u201d is a special at the Fuego Tortilla Grill chain, which has a location on the South Freeway in Burleson.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Fuego Tortilla Grill, the popular Texas chain from College Station, is serving a Frito-pie taco with beef, cheese, onions and Fritos, along with strawberry margaritas.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Fuego at 955 N. Burleson Blvd. in Burleson; fuegotortillagrill.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf Los Vaqueros, 2513 Rodeo Plaza, will serve $5 quesabirria tacos and $5 margaritas; losvaqueros.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf Mercado Juarez Cafes will serve half-price taco dinners and $3 margaritas at both the Fort Worth and Arlington locations; mercadojuarez.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Churro<\/p>\n

Churro cupcakes are on the menu for Cinco de Mayo at SusieCakes.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Mexican Inn Cafes will serve $5 margaritas through May 5 at all nine area locations; mexicaninncafe.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf Muchacho, 431 Grand Ave. East in Southlake, will serve a special orange margarita Monday and a mezcal-tequila-pineapple margarita May 5.<\/p>\n

\u25cf SusieCakes, the California-based bakery in the WestBend shopping center at 1621 River Run, Fort Worth, will serve churro cupcakes and snickerdoodle-filled \u201cSusieTacos\u201d; susiecakes.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf Torchy\u2019s Tacos will serve an afternoon \u201chooky hour\u201d with nachos for $2 off and half-price beer and margaritas.<\/p>\n

There are nine locations in Tarrant County; torchystacos.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Nachos<\/p>\n

Nachos at Torchy\u2019s Tacos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cinco de Mayo meets Taco Tuesday this year, more reason than ever to celebrate a truly Tex-Mex holiday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[73388,116,118,117,102921,102920],"class_list":["post-279045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-cinco-de-mayo","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fuego-tortilla-grill","tag-ignacio-zaragoza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}