Glory be, and praise to whichever saint watches over late-night drive-thrus; Taco Bell is bringing back discontinued Y2K favorites, and the people are ready. Half of us are clutching our Crunchwraps to our chest (we’ll regret that later), and the other half of us are going to be stoked once the hangover wears off a little. The new-old menu drops on September 9th, and we’ve all got a fighting chance of getting there while sober enough to remember the glory this time.
Taco Bell is releasing the Decades Y2K Menu on September 9, 2025. This is a very limited-time throwback, so you’re going to want to make sure that you’re in line that day if you’ve gotta have your favorite circa-2002 menu item. Taco Bell is also leaning real hard into the Y2K of it all with exclusive merch drops for their Rewards Members. Why? I don’t really know, but I figure if you and your eyebrows survived the early 2000s, a burrito hoodie is something the universe owes you.
What menu items made the cut? I’m glad you asked!
Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco — This taco shell changed lives in 2013, and by that, I mean I once smuggled one into a club in college and gave it to a drunk girl in the bathroom. We’re still close to this day.
Double Decker Taco — It’s “why choose” for tacos. No need to decide whether you need beans or crunch. You can have both. At once. Like a damn king.
7-Layer Burrito — Your old favorite 2AM vegetarian fix is back, and this time you don’t have to pretend that you’re ordering it because you’re “just trying it out.” You’re a real grown-up, and you know it’s okay that you love this thing.
Chili Cheese Burrito (Chilito) — My buddies from the Midwest still get misty-eyed when they talk about this one, and you have no idea how stoked I was to be the one to tell them they get to have it back for a while.
Caramel Apple Empanada — If you know what’s good for you, you’ll dash to the nearest McDonald’s with a working ice cream machine and get a vanilla milkshake to dip this bad boy in.
This whole menu is like stepping back into 2008, but without the skinny jeans or MySpace (RIP), and devotees are losing their minds. Can you blame them? People have been begging for these items to return for years, and now we get to enjoy them again for a little while. That 2AM drive-thru line on September 9th is going to look like a TSwift concert presale, but like… with hot sauce packets.
Taco Bell has dominated the late-night snack scene for so long, they’re essentially the unofficial sponsor of bad decisions and eating your feelings. And now that they’re bringing back so much nostalgia from the early 2000s, the only real loser here is whoever occupies the bathroom after you.
