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 ...

Almost 50 years after its first restaurant opened, Tuscaloosa’s Taco Casa is looking to expand the franchise in the Huntsville, Montgomery and Mobile metro areas. The Tex-Mex eatery, which has seven ...

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 ...

TUSCALOOSA | The give-and-take that has characterized much of the rebuilding effort in Tuscaloosa played out this week between two tornado-damaged 15th Street restaurants. Attorneys for the owners of ...

Rod Wilkin, founder, president and CEO of Taco Casa, received the H. Pettus Randall Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama during a luncheon Wednesday at Hotel ...