On National Taco Day, Chuy’s customers who are dining in will be offered a crispy beef taco for $1, as well as shots of top-shelf tequila for $5 and $1 floaters on top of your favorite margarita.

But hey, the beef fajita taco here is good stuff, cooked to order with skirt steak’s signature fat-and-lean bubblegum chew, even better with guacamole on a fluffy handmade flour tortilla.

Varying weights of vacuum-packed packages of fresh “USDA CHOICE ANGUS BEEF, FAJITA SEASONED STEAK, BEEF FLANK STEAK FOR FAJITAS,” a packaging date of 03/23/18 and 03/24/18, a use or freeze-by ...

Varying weights of vacuum-packed packages of fresh "USDA CHOICE ANGUS, FAJITA SEASONED STRIPS, BEEF FLANK STRIPS FOR FAJITAS," a packaging date of 03/24/18, and a use or freeze-by date of 04/18/18 ...

At dinner, a beef fajita dinner will run you $16.65. But for a taste of how Mexican Manhattan does fajitas, go at lunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on weekdays, when one beef fajita taco with rice ...

Best bet: the beef fajita taco, derived not from traditional skirt steak but a more pliable, less sinewy cut of meat (by the way, the kitchen butchers its own beef).

Get that. At Mama Margie’s, a plain beef fajita taco costs $2.99. But it’s good beef, real skirt steak seasoned and marinated to soften it up and deliver the salt and spice a 24-hour body needs.

You’ll find at least 14 types of tacos here: beef fajita, chicken, pastor, and barbacoa. The day of my visit they were out of two.

The beef and chicken fajita tacos were okay. They lacked flavor. The barbacoa taco wasn’t bad, better than the average gas station barbacoa which is usually too slimy and flavorless.