El Tio Taco Shop — Restaurant in Arizona

I had to update my review after tonight’s meal. There was much less food on my plate and my wife’s plate tonight. There is also no longer a military discount on the street taco special. The food also looked like they just threw it onto the plate with no care at all (refer to pic). My ground beef taco had the worst ground beef I have ever had, it was dry and cold. The only good thing they still have is the salsa bar. We were very disappointed as we liked this place. We won’t be returning. My wife and I eat here semi often and we always get the street tacos on Tuesdays and Thursdays when they are $1.89 each. The tacos are small but they have a nice salsa bar with chopped onions, cilantro, carrots and jalapeños, radishes, and various red and green salsas starting with the mildest salsas all the way to the left and increasing spiciness going to the right of the salsa bar. There is a military discount which is very nice. The service is usually pretty friendly and helpful. I deducted a star because this one time my wife got sick eating there and I tried the shredded chicken one time to find it was dry and tasteless but they would not replace it or refund me after only eating a single bite of it. There are also always several flies hanging around there. Also they changed the endless complimentary tortilla chips to one bowl (after one you have to pay for each extra bowl) which is understandable since people were taking advantage of the complimentary chips. Overall, I recommend this place as it is probably one of the best Mexican food...

Tonight was our first time going here. We came in at 815pm not knowing they close at 830. We were prepared to take our food to go, but the man working tonight said it was ok to stay and eat.

Omg the food was soooooooo good! My husband had the taco and tostada plate and I had the rolled taco plate because I wasn't sure how they'd be and figured they couldn't mess those up.

I tried my husband's carne asada taco and holy crap it was the best we've had in years. The meat was nice and tender, not dried out like a lot of places around here (especially that close to closing). The meat actually had flavor, not like Pancho Villas where the carne asada tastes like it was boiled in water.

The beans were not watered down and bland, they also had flavor. The rice was also really good and I normally don't touch the rice because every place I've been it's dry and tastes gross.

We will for sure be back in the near future. This is our new taco spot to head to in Kingman. I only wish we found it sooner.

It was also very clean, the man taking the order was really friendly and the lady coming was really sweet too. It was also very...

Surprising I like it better than Filiberto's. It's now a year later since I originally posted this and I still think this place has fantastic food but as I sat here waiting for my food I've noticed they don't wear gloves they don't wear masks when they clean their tables they don't need sanitizer they go from table to table the same damp towel to wipe them off with I've seen them handle cash and dirty plates without washing their hands only using a damp towel they have sanitizer with a usebut other than that they're not very conscious about ourselves and protecting the customer with Mohave County being one of the highest counties for the covid and Kingman been one of the highest areas I myself have worked in restaurants for 45 years I am shocked by there safety habits even without covid if it wasn't for their safety habits I would have gave them up for Starz because they do...