SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA – Imagine it’s 3am, and you suddenly need a taco.
The Bay Area Telegraph isn’t going to ask (or judge) the reason why you need a taco at 3am. But if you do, you previously had few options.
Now, that’s changed. A new spot in San Ramon, California is here to serve your midnight taco needs.
A new Mexican drive-through has quietly taken over a familiar fast-food corner in San Ramon, and it comes with one feature that instantly sets it apart from most of the Tri-Valley food scene:
It is open 24 hours a day.
The newcomer is El Forastero, a Northern California and Nevada chain that opened its first Bay Area outpost on Dec. 15 at 2222 San Ramon Valley Blvd. — the drive-thru spot that previously housed Wendy’s for nearly a decade before it closed in the fall.
Plenty of restaurants claim “late night” hours, but El Forastero is leaning into something rarer: an around-the-clock menu with breakfast alongside lunch and dinner options, available all day and all night.
Your 3am taco needs, in other words, are about to be solved!
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El Forastero has built its reputation on fast, comfort-food Mexican staples. Even though this is a drive-through headline, the San Ramon location is not drive-thru only. Reports indicate the restaurant is offering the same service model it uses elsewhere: dine-in, takeout, drive-thru, delivery, and catering, with the full menu running around the clock.
If El Forastero feels “new” to the East Bay, that is because it is. This is the chain’s first Bay Area expansion, and its other locations are largely concentrated in the greater Sacramento area and the San Joaquin Valley (with additional locations in Nevada).
24/7 tacos aren’t just limited to our nearby neighbors to the north! Now, the 925 has them, too.
