The big green cactus is almost as familiar around Tuscaloosa as red elephants and houndstooth hats. Taco Casa, the homegrown Mexican restaurant chain with the distinctive cactus sign, has kept hungry ...

Things were touch and go for the first couple of years after Al and Sandra Ward opened Taco Casa in 1963. "Business was slow and I worked many hours by myself," Al Ward recalled. "At that time, we ...

When Polly Laffoon's husband got out of the Army in the late '60s (she was Polly Kennedy then), they left El Paso – where there were a lot of tacos – and moved back to Cincinnati, where there weren't ...

The sun hadn’t even begun to break the horizon when Lorrie Clark arrived at 6 a.m. each morning to prep for the day at Taco Casa. Located at 5656 S.W. 29th in Barrington Village, the business opened ...