
"All around, we use high-quality products and meats, as we stand by our motto of 'Not Your Average Taco,'" Martinez says. Refreshments like horchatas come in 32-ounce cups ($6.00) or grab a cucumber-lime refresher ($6.00) or Mexican soda ($3.00). The salsas, meat, guacamole, and tortillas are all made fresh daily. Tacos come complete with guacamole, onions, and cilantro on a house-made corn tortilla. "That is more of a Sonoran thing, where my family came from." "Our sleeper is the al pastor it's more savory than sweet," he says. Other tacos include char-grilled chicken ($2.95), made-to-order ribeye steak ($3.95), and al pastor ($2.95), which is marinated pork. Martinez says one of the most ordered items is the carne asada taco ($3.25) made with flap skirt steak. It comes with a dipping sauce available with or without meat. The red taco ($3.85) is a cheese-crusted taco with birria beef cooked with spices and peppers. Since opening inside the Holiday Inn, Tacos Barbon has expanded its menu with red tacos and mini dillas.
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After a month, we were doing well enough to think this could work full time." "The situation turned into an opportunity to get by until I got another job in my field. "I never expected things to continue the way they did," says Martinez. He and Karina decided to turn their taco-making hobby to the next level to make ends meet. At the time, Isai had a career as a department head for a local business in the architecture field but became out of work when the pandemic hit in 2020. The married couple started a taco cart in 2019 as a weekend catering gig for extra income. When I explain it to someone, I compare it to a Starbucks inside a Fry's. "We get people that are more curious than anything. "It's a different type of concept," he says. The decision to open their restaurant inside a hotel comes down to proximity to their home base in Buckeye and operating in a commercial kitchen, says Isai Martinez. Owners Isai and Karina Martinez opened Tacos Barbon inside the hotel about a month ago. Tacos Barbon, a popular food truck commonly seen around Buckeye and other parts of metro Phoenix, recently signed an agreement with the Holiday Inn off Interstate 10 and Dysart road to bring their Mexican street tacos to the hotel permanently.


With restaurant space at a premium these days, food truck owners in the Valley have to get creative if they want to open a brick-and-mortar without the hefty cost of building from the ground up.
