Taco Bell began selling the Salt & Straw Churro Ice Cream Taco at restaurants nationwide on September 1, 2026, at a suggested $3.99. It is a limited-time item and Taco Bell has not announced a date for when it stops selling.
- Status
- Limited timeConfirmed by the company
- Brand
- Taco Bell
- Launch
- September 1, 2026 (Sep 1, 2026)
- Where
- US — participating Taco Bell locations, Live Más Café locations in California, Nevada and Texas (Choco-Waffle Chiller only)
- Run
- Limited time
- Price
- $3.99 — Suggested price; Taco Bell's footnote says to contact the restaurant for prices and participation
- On sale nationwide since September 1, 2026, at participating locations
- Suggested price $3.99; Taco Bell says to contact the restaurant for prices and participation
- A second item, the Salt & Straw Choco-Waffle Chiller, starts at $4.69 and is sold only at Live Más Café locations in California, Nevada and Texas
- Limited time, while supplies last — no end date has been announced for either item
- Taco Bell says the Chiller's run extends beyond the ice cream taco's, without saying by how long
- The second Taco Bell collaboration with Salt & Straw, after the Tacolate launched at Salt & Straw shops last year
What was announced
Taco Bell announced on September 1, 2026 that the Salt & Straw Churro Ice Cream Taco is on sale at Taco Bell restaurants nationwide for a limited time at a suggested $3.99, and that a companion item, the Salt & Straw Choco-Waffle Chiller, is available from $4.69 exclusively at Live Más Café locations. Liz Matthews, Global Chief Food Innovation Officer at Taco Bell, said the Churro Ice Cream Taco "builds on everything fans loved about the original collaboration, with a flavor that feels right at home on our menu". Tyler Malek, co-founder and head ice cream maker at Salt & Straw, said the two brands set out to "dream up something completely new" after the response to the first collaboration.
Why it matters
Two things make this more than a flavour drop. The first is the split: the item most people can actually buy is the $3.99 taco, while the Chiller that gets equal billing in the announcement exists in three states only, and Taco Bell says its run outlasts the taco's. The second is that neither item has an announced last day, which is the question this kind of launch generates most search for and the one the announcement does not answer.
What Taco Bell announced
Taco Bell's September 1 announcement covers two separate items, sold in two different places.
The Salt & Straw Churro Ice Cream Taco is the nationwide one. Taco Bell describes it as a crispy waffle cone shell filled with a new churro ice cream, covered with puffed rice and a dark chocolate-flavored coating. The company lists a suggested price of $3.99 and marks it available at participating locations while supplies last, at the front counter, kiosk or drive-thru, with a limit of five per order.
The Salt & Straw Choco-Waffle Chiller is not nationwide. Taco Bell describes it as a vanilla ice cream base blended with churro crumbles and waffle cone pieces, encased in a crackable chocolatey shell and topped with whipped cream and more waffle cone pieces. It starts at $4.69 and is sold only at Live Más Café locations, which the announcement places in California, Las Vegas, Houston and Dallas — Nevada and Texas alongside California in the footnote's own wording.
The two prices are Taco Bell's own suggested figures. The announcement's footnotes say to contact the restaurant for prices and participation, so what a given store charges may differ.
When does it end?
No end date has been announced. Taco Bell's announcement uses "for a limited time" and "while supplies last" throughout and never names a last day for either item.
One detail is worth reading carefully, because it is easy to mistake for an end date: on September 8 Taco Bell ran a Tuesday Drop sweepstakes offering Rewards members the chance to win one of 100 coolers packed with three of the ice cream tacos, and the announcement calls it "one final chance" and "one last chance" to get them that way. That language is about the sweepstakes, not about the menu item — the announcement gives no indication that restaurant sales stopped on September 8.
The announcement does say the Choco-Waffle Chiller's availability extends beyond the ice cream taco's limited-time run. It does not say when either one finishes, so the honest answer to "when does it end" today is that Taco Bell has not said.
The second time around
This is the second Taco Bell and Salt & Straw collaboration. Taco Bell says last year's Tacolate sold out on its launch weekend and drew lines at Salt & Straw scoop shops, and that the response is what led to a second one.
The difference this time is where it is sold. Taco Bell's announcement frames the Tacolate as a Salt & Straw shop item and says the Churro Ice Cream Taco is going into Taco Bell restaurants — the company calls it the first time an ice cream taco from the partnership has reached its own restaurants nationwide. Taco Bell also notes the original Cinnamon Ancho Tacolate remains available year-round at Salt & Straw shops and for nationwide shipping from Salt & Straw's website.
Common questions
- How much is the Taco Bell Salt & Straw Churro Ice Cream Taco?
- Taco Bell's suggested price is $3.99. The company's own footnote says prices and participation vary by restaurant, so a given location may charge something else.
- When does the Churro Ice Cream Taco stop being sold?
- Taco Bell has not announced an end date. The announcement says only that it is available for a limited time, at participating locations, while supplies last.
- Can I get the Choco-Waffle Chiller at any Taco Bell?
- No. Taco Bell says the Choco-Waffle Chiller is exclusive to Live Más Café locations, which the announcement places in California, Nevada and Texas. The Churro Ice Cream Taco is the item sold at Taco Bell restaurants nationwide.
- Is this the Choco Taco?
- It is not. Taco Bell's announcement describes the Churro Ice Cream Taco as an all-new item created by Salt & Straw's ice cream makers exclusively for Taco Bell, and refers back to last year's Tacolate collaboration rather than to the discontinued Choco Taco.
Sources
Taco Bell · Press release · checked Sep 3, 2026
- The September 1, 2026 nationwide launch date
- The $3.99 suggested price for the Churro Ice Cream Taco
- The Choco-Waffle Chiller starting at $4.69 at Live Más Café only
- Taco Bell's own description of what is in each item
- That both items are limited time, at participating locations while supplies last
- That no end date is stated anywhere in the announcement
- The September 8 Tuesday Drop sweepstakes for Rewards members
- Quotes from Liz Matthews of Taco Bell and Tyler Malek of Salt & Straw
Taco Bell · Product page · checked Sep 3, 2026
- Taco Bell's own locator for finding a Live Más Café, the only format carrying the Choco-Waffle Chiller