Key Takeaways
- Taco Bell is currently testing nine new menu items at select restaurants across the country.
- The items are available for a limited time and fan response will determine if they make it to nationwide menus.
One thing about Taco Bell is that the brand will always keep us on our toes. We can go weeks without hearing from the chain, but don’t think they’re dormant. Oh, no. The genius minds over at Taco Bell are always thinking about new things to cook up.
So, just because we saw two major launches this week—the new Frank’s RedHot Diablo sauce menu and the long-awaited return of the Beefy Crunch Burrito in new Flamin’ Hot Grilled Cheese Burrito form—doesn’t mean they’re the only new things you’ll spot on menus.
Along with those new items, which were highly requested by fans, Taco Bell has quietly added nine other offerings to its menu. But, there’s a catch. These items are being tested at certain Taco Bell restaurants across the country.
Here’s a look at the new items we’re excited about—plus where to find them.
Taco Bell To Test New Menu Items at Select Locations
Cantina Fajitas
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The Cantina Chicken menu has been a fast favorite at Taco Bell this year, which is why the chain continues to iterate on the success. In January, we saw the new Caliente Cantina Chicken menu, and now Taco Bell is experimenting with a new Cantina offering: fajitas.
Now, you can add sizzling, fresh fajita onions and peppers to four Cantina menu items. The new menu includes a Cantina Fajita Bowl, Cantina Fajita Grilled Cheese Burrito, Cantina Fajita Grilled Soft Taco, and Cantina Fajita Quesadilla.
The $7.99 Cantina Fajita Bowl is filled with rice, black beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, fajita veggies, cheese, creamy jalapeño sauce, and your choice of chicken or carne asada—plus, the bowl is served with two warm tortillas for DIY tacos.
Taco Bell’s Cantina Fajita Grilled Cheese Burrito adds rice, carne asada or chicken, seasoned peppers and onions, creamy jalapeño sauce, and cheese to a burrito that’s grilled with a layer of melty cheese for $5.99.
The Cantina Fajita Grilled Soft Taco is filled with carne asada or chicken, fajita peppers and onions, creamy jalapeño sauce, and cheese for $3.49. And the quesadilla adds those same ingredients to a larger tortilla that’s grilled to melty perfection for $6.49.
All four new Cantina Fajita menu items can be ordered à la carte, and the Cantina Fajita Grilled Soft Taco is also available in the $9 Cantina Fajita Discovery Luxe Box. This menu is currently being tested at select restaurants in Dallas, Texas, now for a limited time.
Gordita Crunch Sliders
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Taco Bell has seen multiple success stories by shrinking down its fan-loved menu items to “street food” size—from the Crunchwrap Sliders to the Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupas. Now, you can try a snack-sized version of the beloved Cheesy Gordita Crunch.
These Gordita Crunch Sliders, which are currently being tested in Nashville, Tenn., feature two pillowy-soft flatbreads filled with cheese and wrapped around a crispy taco shell. The taco shell is then stuffed with your choice of chicken, steak, or seasoned beef; creamy chipotle sauce; and cheese.
The two-count sliders are priced between $4.49 and $5.49 for chicken and steak and $3.49 for seasoned beef, depending on your restaurant. You can also order the Gordita Crunch Sliders as part of the $9 Discovery Luxe Cravings Box and $6.99 Snack Trio with Nacho Fries and Cinnabon Delights.
Diablo Nuggets
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Taco Bell is actively working to perfect its crispy chicken offerings so it can provide a permanent option for customers in 2026. Minneapolis customers can try its latest iteration, the Diablo Nuggets now.
The spicy chicken nuggets start with the same tortilla chip breading you know and love, with a kick of Diablo-style heat in the new sauce-turned-spice seasoning.
The new Diablo Nuggets are available à la carte in a five- or 10-piece, in a combo meal, in the Nuggets Deluxe Meal, and as part of the $9 Discovery Luxe Box.
Crispy Chicken Crunchwrap Sliders
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Speaking of the Crunchwrap Sliders, Taco Bell is bringing them back in a big way. Following its TBX program, which introduced the Southwest Hot CHX Crunchwrap last year, the chain is attempting to bring the crispy chicken-filled Crunchwrap to scale.
These Crispy Chicken Crunchwrap Sliders, which are being tested in Knoxville, Tenn., are bite-sized pockets filled with crispy chicken, cheese, pico de gallo, and your choice of Creamy Chipotle or Sriracha Chili Sauce.
Queso
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Believe it or not, Taco Bell doesn’t offer a traditional queso dip on its menu. Yes, it has nacho cheese for its chips and Nacho Fries, and sells a Salsa Con Queso Mild Cheese Dip at the grocery store, but a dippable queso has never been available in the drive-thru.
Now, customers in Indianapolis can try Taco Bell’s riff on the Tex-Mex dip in two ways: as $2 Chips & Queso and in the new $3 Chicken Queso Burrito, with chicken, rice, cheese, and pico de gallo in a grilled tortilla.
Unlike the store-bought Taco Bell queso, this new restaurant-exclusive is a green chile queso made with creamy white cheese. It’s the same queso from the Steak & Queso Crunchwrap Sliders in February, but now you can order it as a dippable side.
You lucky ducks who live in these cities better take advantage of your good fortune and get to Taco Bell to try these new items before it’s too late. And be sure to report back so we know if we’ll ever see these items on our nationwide menu.
