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Taco Bell's 2025 Menu Just Dropped — Here's What You Need To Try First

When it comes to product innovation, one fast food chain isn't shy about testing out something new. 

Taco Bell just unveiled its 2025 lineup at the second annual Live Más presentation yesterday—and if everything goes according to plan, we can expect quite a delicious year. A whole slew of new menu items are coming to the beloved Tex-Mex chain, including crispy chicken nuggets, street chalupas, and cheese-shelled tacos. 

Beyond that, the California-based chain is testing more than a dozen dishes, both savory and sweet — like the caramel apple empanada, brisket tacos, short rib chile relleno burrito, and tequila lime tacos.

"What we believe [founder Glen Bell] he was trying to do 63 years ago was feed curiosity for the unconventional. That's pretty cool: Tacos in a burger world," CEO Sean Tresvant said during the introduction. 

The brand kept its word by unveiling quite a few inventive releases for the rest of the calendar year. Ahead, we're digging into that full lineup of incoming items.

Taco Bell's new and returning menu items The Quesocrisp Taco features a surprisingly sturdy shell made of crunchy baked cheese, making it one of the most ambitious new releases.  You can also look forward to new twists on old favorites, including the Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa, Crispy Chicken Burrito, Crispy Chicken Taco, Grilled Cheese Burrito with shredded beef, and Flamin' Hot Burrito. Meanwhile, the Rolled Poblano Quesadilla delivers the heat with marinated steak or roasted chicken and peppers wrapped in a grilled tortilla. Looking to meet your protein goals during lunch? This is for you: Following the success of the Cantina Chicken Bowl, the chain has just released a new Caliente Cantina Chicken burrito bowl (along with other Caliente items) featuring a spicy Avocado Verde sauce.  And no, that's not all. After a successful run of the nostalgic Decades Menu last fall, Taco Bell is revving up the time machine for another limited-edition drop. This time, they're bringing back simpler pleasures from the early 2000s, including the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco and the Double Decker Taco.  Desserts, drinks, and partnerships As for drinks, Baja Blast is celebrating its 21st year. The brand is marking this milestone with the introduction of its first-ever new Baja flavor: Midnight. This passion fruit and tropical lime soda will be flowing at Taco Bell's thousands of locations starting this summer, the brand informs us. Fans of the brand's recent churro collaboration with Milk Bar are also in luck: another unnamed drop may be on the horizon.  It's no surprise that "swicy" innovations are part of the upcoming offerings — in 2025, Taco Bell will collaborate with Mike's Hot Honey to create a fresh version of their fiery Diablo Sauce. This will be available on menus alongside the newly introduced Crispy Chicken Nuggets, as the company announced. Additionally, Taco Bell is preparing to launch other collaborations with popular brands, including Brooklyn's Weak Knees Fire.  The brand can't reveal timelines for any of its other new innovations just yet, so we'll need to be patient for the time being. (Availability is also subject to change, as we've been informed.) Still eager for more details? Cheesy new menu items aren't the only additions coming to the Taco Bell universe this year. In-app features and international expansion The Taco Bell team is currently developing a "Fan Style" feature on the Taco Bell app, which will enable users to create their own customized orders and share them with others. (Of course, more details are to come.) Taco Bell, under its parent company Yum! Brands, is also looking to grow internationally. In an investor presentation on Tuesday, the company stated that it plans to expand its global presence from 1,150 locations in 2024 to over 3,000 outside the United States by 2030. This includes nine new countries, such as France, Greece, and South Africa.  "The bold swings will only get bigger as we continue to chase greatness," Tresvant said in the investor announcement. "We had an impressive year thanks to fans and team members, so we're grounding our 2025 strategy around them." Sounds like it's time for a drive-thru run.  Taco Bell's Official 2025 Menu Caliente Cantina Chicken Menu Chicken Strips Menu Beefy Crunch Burrito Apple Empanada Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos Double Decker Taco Grilled Cheese Burrito With Shredded Beef Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa Crispy Chicken Flamin' Hot Burrito Rolled Steak and Poblano Quesadilla Quesocrisp Taco Mountain Dew Baja Midnight Mike's Hot Honey Diablo Sauce Weak Knees Fire Sauce

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Taco Bell Announces New Midnight Baja Blast, 30 Bold New Bites Rolling Out In 2025

Taco Bell is bringing bold new flavors to its menu in 2025.

The beloved fast-food restaurant chain unveiled 30 new menu items in development during its Live Más LIVE event this week, including an evolving chicken and beverage lineup.

As many eagle-eyed Taco Bell fans already knew, the crispy chicken nuggets that debuted in late 2024 are making a much-anticipated return -- a category many fast food competitors are leaning into this year -- alongside the newly announced Caliente Cantina Chicken Menu.

New Taco Bell 2025 menu releases: Bold flavors ahead

The all-new Caliente Cantina Chicken Menu turns up the heat on Taco Bell’s slow-roasted Cantina Chicken featuring a bold, red jalapeño Caliente Sauce available nationwide February 27.

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Taylor Montgomery, Taco Bell's chief marketing officer, highlighted the flavor-packed lineup of menu items rolling out in the 2025 calendar year during the second iteration of the brand's live, fan-focused Live Más event in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday.

Check out everything new that's hitting Taco Bell menus below.

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Caliente Cantina Chicken Menu: This is a bold new twist on the fan-favorite, slow-roasted Cantina Chicken. The limited-time menu will feature the all-new Caliente Sauce that's made with red jalapeños to balance spice and flavor.

Taco Bell brings back Meximelt, Gordita Supreme, Caramel Apple Empanadas with new Decades Menu under $3

A new queso fundido rolled chicken taco at Taco Bell.

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Decades Menu: After bringing back nostalgic fan favorites last year, the brand announced it will do it again with products that were on menus in the early 2000s and 2010s -- including the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos and Double Decker Taco.

Fan Style: Whether it's adding guacamole to a favorite menu item or making swaps like tomatoes instead of pico de gallo in a Crunchwrap Supreme, Taco Bell fans will have the opportunity to influence Taco Bell's menu with "Fan Style," an in-app functionality that allows fans to customize, name and share their unique Taco Bell customization with friends, family and other fans.

Grilled Cheese Burrito with Shredded Beef: The beloved Grilled Cheese Burrito will now feature shredded beef.

The new Grilled Cheese Burrito with Shredded Beef at Taco Bell.

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Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa: This is a twist on the Cheesy Street Chalupa, to continue Taco Bell's "ode to the street with game-changing upgrades from the outside-in," the brand stated in a press release. The cheddar is baked into the taco shell with a layer of crispy cheese toasted on the outside for the perfect crunch. It will also come with a brand-new Chile Lime Crema Sauce.

Crispy Chicken: Crispy Chicken Nuggets are coming back, but in addition to a la carte options, there will also be Crispy Chicken Burritos and Tacos hitting menus in U.S. And Canada locations this year with Avocado Ranch and Spicy Ranchero Sauce.

New crispy chicken nuggets and Hidden Valley Fire Ranch Sauce from Taco Bell.

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Mike's Hot Honey Diablo Sauce: The new partnership with Mike's Hot Honey includes a bold and spicy Mike's Hot Honey Diablo sauce that will hit menus later this year to go with Crispy Chicken Nuggets.

Flamin' Hot Burrito: The all-new burrito features nacho cheese sauce, Flamin' Hot Fritos, reduced-fat sour cream, seasoned beef and new Flamin' Hot Rice wrapped in a warm tortilla.

The new Flamin' Hot Burrito at Taco Bell.

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Steak and Queso Cruchwrap Sliders: The Crunchwrap's signature balance of crunch, cheese, and flavor is fully realized in the newest innovation. The portable sliders made with grilled marinated steak, creamy chipotle sauce, pico de gallo, cheddar cheese and a mini tostada get wrapped up in a grilled flour tortillas and are served as a fun-sized pair of two, alongside the perfect dipping component, Green Chile Queso.

Rolled Poblano Quesadilla: Marinated steak or slow-roasted chicken plus poblano peppers rolled into one amazing quesadilla.

Milk Bar Birthday Cake Churros: Taco Bell and Christina Tosi's Milk Bar reunited in February for Milk Bar Birthday Cake Churros. This second culinary collab is available now, while supplies last.

A new passionfruit flavored Mountain Dew Baja Midnight at Taco Bell.

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Mountain Dew Baja Midnight: A sweet and refreshing blast of passionfruit flavor combined with the familiar tropical lime flavor of Baja Blast will complement any Taco Bell meal. This beverage is only available at Taco Bell restaurants.

Quesocrisp Taco: An all-new taco with a shell made out of crispy cheese.

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