{"id":795790,"date":"2026-05-14T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:28:35","slug":"taqueria-saltillos-taco-cone-in-arlington-is-instagram-worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795790\/","title":{"rendered":"Taqueria Saltillo’s Taco Cone in Arlington is Instagram worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an area where taquerias compete to serve the most authentic taco, a Mexican restaurant in Arlington<\/a> has decided to take a different approach and has turned a taco into a giant cone.<\/p>\n

Taqueria Saltillo\u2019s Taco Cone has become one of those Instagram-worthy dishes that also happens to be a complete meal at an affordable price.<\/p>\n

The idea combines street-style taco<\/a> elements with a cone presentation. Instead of a folded flour tortilla, the meat, cheese, rice, beans and other ingredients are placed inside a cone-shaped baked flour tortilla, making it a hybrid between a regular taco and a crispy tostada \u2014 all for $13.99.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome years ago, I saw this idea at a business in Orlando and loved it, but it took me five years to get it right,\u201d Juan Carlos\u00a0Flores, owner of Taqueria Saltillo, told\u00a0The News. \u201cIt\u2019s like the taco salad sold at Tex-Mex<\/a> places, where the dish is a fried tortilla; here it\u2019s almost the same, only it\u2019s a cone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flores said that for now, the Taco Cone isn\u2019t very popular at his taqueria, but it is at private events and festivals where attendees can eat it while walking or doing other activities.<\/p>\n

The first challenge Flores faced was creating the mold to make the cones. Although at first he wanted to use a fried tortilla for the cone, over time he discovered that he could bake the tortilla, which would not only make it easier to prepare but also more healthful.<\/p>\n

Flores opened Taqueria Saltillo 16 years ago, when he was just 19 years old. Since then, it has become a popular spot in Arlington, and although it has only been at its current location at 419 W Randol Mill Road for seven months, people continue to come for dishes that are hard to find elsewhere, such as the traditional flour gorditas from northern Mexico.<\/p>\n

Flores’s business has also been\u00a0a supplier<\/a> to the Arlington ISD since last September. The district serves his tacos every two weeks in high schools and every month in all its schools.\u00a0Flores is an alumnus of Sam Houston High School, an Arlington ISD school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really nice to return to the school where I studied, and now I am running my business. It\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d\u00a0Flores said.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time this restaurant has innovated with its food. For the Epiphany celebration on January 6, Flores created the Taco Rosca, a savory version of the traditional Rosca de Reyes cake eaten in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an area where taquerias compete to serve the most authentic taco, a Mexican restaurant in Arlington has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,290086,324713,324714,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-795790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tp-arlington","13":"tag-tp-mexican-food","14":"tag-tp-restaurants","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116572933766593456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}