Fuzzy’s Taco Shop

So bummed that it’s closed! I was looking forward to lunch here on my visit to Madison this weekend! Loved this place

We are Austin transplants in Madison and Fuzzy’s was a little taste of home. You can imagine my disappointment when I went to get tacos today and found the store CLOSED! I was just there a month ago and now there is a Thai restaurant in its place.

I read recently that Fuzzy’s is moving out and Curry in a Box is moving in soon. Perhaps that is why they were out of half their side dishes and the customer service was utterly horrible. It’s too bad because with the right management/​ownership & employees Fuzzy’s would thrive because they do have good food when they’re on.

If your in the neighborhood, and have a craving for Fuzzy’s take on Mexican food, this may be the only two reasons you could come up with to visit. I have tried Fuzzy’s several times over the years, and while I like the food, it is a mostly hit or miss place. Good luck trying to find a parking space, as Starbucks shares a lot with Fuzzy’s. My most recent trip was mostly successful; the big menu board above the cash register has the different menu items grouped by color, which it makes it easier to locate which menu item you might want. All of the sides were available on this visit, I can’t say that for former visits. And I didn’t have to wait for my food, again, unlike previous visits. But it still ‘looks’ dirty and still feels sticky, even if it isn’t. You can sit outside the door on nice days at their picnic tables and you can bring your dog to hang out with you on the patio, if you want. They also have drink specials, if your into that.

Gourmet tacos! Reasonably priced. Tex-​mex style foods. Fuzzy dust is just adorable. Crowd is hip & college students.

We stopped by for some breakfast tacos on Saturday morning, on a whim. The bacon, egg, potato, and cheese tacos sounded delicious! Hungry and anxious for food, we bit into our tacos only to experience raw bacon. Like get-​you-​sick raw bacon. Needless to say we left hungry and disappointed. Won’t be going back.

I stopped in for a quick lunch time snack of guacamole and chips today. The first bit of bad news is their driveway; huge pot holes right where the entrance meets the sidewalk at University Avenue. I mean, break an axle huge.
The restaurant interior is oddly laid out, with huge communal tables and very few places for individuals or smaller parties to sit. The music is loud, and everything has that vaguely sticky patina of a beachside popsicle stand, including the riotous color scheme.
They did prepare my order quickly, and the service was friendly. Too bad the food was utterly disappointing. The tortilla chips had the distinctly off flavor of rancid cooking oil, and the guacamole was thick and gluey in texture and unremarkable in flavor. I got up and left after a few bites.

Thirty-​eight minutes for some so-​so tacos?!
I’ve been an occasional Fuzzy’s customer since they opened a few years ago. I especially like the breakfast tacos, but the fact that they don’t open until 9 pretty much rules them out for breakfast.
Service has been hit-​and-​miss, and I’ve come to expect that Fuzzy’s is never quick. Today took the cake, though — it LITERALLY took THIRTY-​EIGHT minutes for me to get three simple tacos.
Thirty. Eight.
The tacos were fine. No taco is that good.
I will not be returning.

Food was good
But not many people in the place and we only have ½ of are food and it has been 30 min
People that order after us have finished eating and are gone
The person working behind the counter just gave us are food after 35 min and did not care at all

Quite possibly the WORST experience I’ve ever had to get a taco.
It took exactly 26 minutes from the time I ordered until I got my cold tacos.
When I asked how much longer it would take?
The cashier complained that they were understaffed and the owner only cares about the sales figures. When there were 5 people in the kitchen!
He then proceeded to tell me «I only make 8 $ an hour, what do you want me to do?»
The overpriced tacos were mostly filled with lettuce, salty meat, and cheese.
Just pass on this place and go to any other taqueria in town.
I would not recommend this place.

Great tacos for only $ 2 each. Go with the pulled pork. The habanero sauce on the side adds great flavor if you can take the heat. Would have been 5 stars but the quesadillas are just average. Stick with the tacos and you will be happy.

Great place for tacos! Ordered 3 Tempura Tacos and Borracho Beans — See pic I uploaded. BF had the burrito, which wasn’t tightly wrapped and fell apart. The wait for food took about 20 minutes with not many ppl in the restaurant. I’ll return because the food was delicious, but only if I don’t have plans soon afterwards.

Some of the best tacos in Madison, EVER. Save your soda cup for $ 1 refills on your next visit. Friendly staff, quick service, and the owner is a fellow Pardeevillian. I too hail from the holy place called Pardeeville, Wisconsin. :).
In all seriousness, this place offers some pretty darn good food.

We receive welcoming service every time we go there. The cashier is always friendly and even though it’s not really a place with wait service, we’ve always had someone stop by our table to ask how things are going.
It’s a bit pricey for tacos, but the burritos are gigantic. They are generous with guacamole and cheese. I ordered the chicken burrito, which was nicely seasoned, but you either have to have a giant mouth to eat it properly or be prepared to eat bites of onions, bites of cheese, bites of guacamole, and bites of chicken.
To be on the safe side, make sure to carry some cash. We’ve had the credit card machine flake out on us more than once.

Garlic Shredded Beef +1
Tempura Fish +1
Soft/​Crispy shell choices +1
$ 1.99 tacos +1
Daily specials +1
All the positives of Taco Bell without the diarrhea? Priceless.

The chicken, pork, and beef tacos are excellent here and cost a whopping $ 2. I withheld a star because the fish taco is very bad, as is the veggie taco that my wife ordered. The chilli looked and tasted canned as well. The tacos though are fresh, fast, and light – a great place to eat if you know what to order.
Update: I’m taking off another star, because I recently tried their salad. It’s described on the menu as a romaine lettuce salad, but in reality it’s 99% iceberg. The ratio is about 40% salad to 60% cheese and meat – exactly like what they used to sell in my high-​school cafeteria. It’s not pretty and tastes even worse than it looks. Also, I’ve stopped going here because the tacos were not reliable. On one visit they’d be great, and on another they’d be poorly made.

The one and only downside of Fuzzy’s, to me, is that the price is a TEENY bit high. But I say that as a college student with very little disposable income who wouldn’t mind if everything in life were one or two dollars cheaper. So.
Besides that, I immediately fell in love with Fuzzy’s the first time I went. I got one soft crawfish taco and one crispy ground beef (love that you can order tacos a la carte), and both were delicious. I wasn’t expecting the feta to be good, but that + garlic sauce = amazing. My date and I also ordered the chips & guacamole, which were great. Chips were well-​seasoned, not just plain old Tostitos, and the guac looked and tasted homemade.
The atmosphere is fun (paper towel holders on each table!), the food is tasty and fresh… love it.

From enjoying numerous Mexican restaurants in Denver, I’m always on the look out for some good authentic Mexican food (or at least knock-​off Mexican food). I remember the meal saying ‘jumbo’ burrito but feeling hungry when I finished. I had shredded pork in the burrito, that was a good eat. But the price seemed a little high for the quantity I received (not to say it’s expensive though).
From the way my friend talked about the place, I didn’t expect it to be as small as it was. Granted, it wasn’t very busy at the time of our visit; but I’d hate to go when they were. I did see some large beer vessels sitting at a few tables, great for a large group.
I was also given some grief from my friend for not ordering tacos from a ‘taco shop’. In can’t help it if I enjoy other meals outside of a taco — I would have definitely been left hungry if I chose that limited option, after seeing his plate.
I think this place is more ideal to get a few beers with drinks and enjoy a light meal. I don’t see the allure in Fuzzy’s, but I’m sure I’ll be back again — it seems to be popular with some of my friends.
Also — where can I find a Mexican place that serves Chimichangas in Madison?

The kid loved the place.
Grilled fish soft taco’s is what was had.
The kid wanted more so this place was inadvertenly served as Dinner.
I thought I wrote an earlier review and was coming to just do an update but no review. Shocking, as I went a while back (maybe a year) and I liked their tempura shrimp taco (frozen fried shrimp) soft and had it again.
When I ordered a 2 taco plate with rice and potatoes — kid approved of it all.
I take into consideration they had games for kids abound so I know that didn’t influence the decision to like the tacos yet it had an impact on liking the place — overall. Kids are critical.
Anywhoo, the word I got: GRILLED FISH SOFT TACO’S ARE GREAT. A total of 3 were had. I had to cut the kid off like a bar back telling a drunkard — ergh NO MORE.
I had the tempura shrimp soft taco & shrimp enchilada w/​rice and beans. ASked for more garlic sauce on the side. I’m a fan of it.
THIS IS TEX-​MEX. AND THE PATIO WAS A HIT LAST NIGHT. Wi-​fi via Starbucks, next door is kind of unrealiable and it’s right next door.
But guess what??? They have chilaquiles on the breakfast menu. Didn’t realize they opened for breakfast so now we have a compromising spot. I hate breakfast and the rest of the family loves it. So, I can go out w/​them and have non-​breakfast food.
$ 1 Margarita Wednesdays
Taco Tuesdays like a good tex-​mex place should have.
Coupons are always circulatin.

The key word for Fuzzy’s is bland. This is some of the most taste-​free food I’ve ever had. Earlier this year I purchased a Groupon worth $ 10, and on my way home from Art Fair on the Square I decided to stop in.
Fuzzy’s is inexpensive, so I ordered the taco plate (2 soft shell — chicken and shredded beef, with Mexican rice and fried potatoes for the sides), chips & queso, and a soda to bump me up past the $ 10 mark.
The signature of Fuzzy’s is their unorthodox toppings — in addition to your standard lettuce/​tomato/​guac/​etc, they include feta cheese and garlic sauce. At least they claim to, anyway. On my tacos there was maybe three little crumbles of feta (which in combination with the other cheese is enough, but not really enough to add any flavor), and I didn’t taste any garlic at all.
The tacos are heaping and meat-​heavy, but again — little flavor. I probably could have closed my eyes and not been sure which taco had chicken and which had beef. The rice was okay, and probably the most flavorful thing overall. The fried potatoes had a slightly undercooked generic potato flavor. The chips and queso is ridiculously large — for $ 3 you get five or six servings of chips and somewhere around 1 – 1.5 cups of melted cheese. This would be an awesome deal if the queso wasn’t so blah.
Fuzzy’s seems to be going for some sort of Tex-​Mex/​Mexicali hybrid, and for me it just doesn’t work. What little flavor the dishes did have was not a flavor profile I enjoyed. I had hope for Fuzzy’s being that it was a Texas chain — while living in Texas I had plenty of cheap, chain Mexican food that wasn’t great but was miles above Taco Bell. I was hoping Fuzzy’s would be in the same category, but the only part that reminds me of the food I enjoyed down south was the fact they had Dr. Pepper and Fanta on tap.