The Taqueria — Restaurant in Bellevue

Here is another one of my straightforward, honest reviews. Some of you may follow my food blog, so you know I tell it like it is when it comes to the hundreds of restaurants I have dined at across the country, and with all the hype of this one that I have read and heard in my hometown of GB, I was excited to try it! Well, while it was not bad....I left a bit underwhelmed. Here's why! First, from the time I placed my order to the time I got it was FOUR minutes! I had barely sat down and taken a sip of my drink and the buzzer you are given to go pick up your order was going off. Okay---plus points for service and speed! But, then I quickly found out why. I ordered 5 street tacos, Two chorizo, two lengua (tongue) and one chicken. They are only $3 each, and they are small. Size doesn't matter if the quality is excellent. These all were lukewarm, at best. By the time I got to the last two, I wanted to ask them to borrow a microwave! The meat was dry, and for lack of a better way of explaining it, they all kind of "tasted the same." Confused, the only thing I can think of is that they prepare a LOT of meat in advance, it sits in a bin, and then they scoop some on the tortillas, put on the vegges, and send them to he pick up window. Any other place I have bought "street tacos," even "on the street" at a food truck, it has always taken around 8-10 minutes for them to be made, hot and fresh to order. The restaurant was far from busy, so it's not like they were backed up 100 tacos, either. I just felt puzzled, and very underwhelmed after all the hype. I will give them a second chance, but honestly, I can go down the block to El Sarape, get 3 large tacos, beans, rice, chips, salsa, and a soda for the same as what I paid for 5 average at best tacos. Or, go to Luxemburg to Rose's Taco Truck on the main corner in town, get 4 LARGE street tacos for $16 and have a hard time finishing the 4th one. Rose's are juicy, flavorful, and more than worth $4 each. My current take is there are a LOT better options in Green Bay for Mexican, and I don't understand the hype. I hope the do better next time, or there...

My Order: Asada torta $11 California burrito asada $14

Issues: torta was pitiful. Absolutely disappointing with barely any asada in it. Thin layer of beans, lettuce, sour cream and avocado. Was basically eating bread with how they skimped out on the ingredients.

Burrito, same thing. They put little meat inside and packed it with fries and avocado.

My husbands family own a Mexican restaurant in CA and we know what is to be expected. Seems to me that they put the cheapest ingredients the most and not put as much of the higher cost ingredients (meat).

I saw a worker delivering someone’s meal to their table so I called him over as he was finished delivering their meal. Voiced my complaint to him in Spanish and he was either confused or didn’t want to say anything about my complaint. So I asked him if he can get someone to speak to about this. Waited about 5 mins and nobody came to our table. I went up to the counter with our food and the woman (señora with curly hair) was saying that if they were to put more meat then they wouldn’t be able to close the burrito (well obviously because you put a lot of fries) and the torta she was just gong around my complaint “oh, “mmhmm”. I told her it’s like I’m eating bread with how little they put in it. She didn’t apologize, she asked what I wanted her to do, remake or money back. I told her at this point if it’s going to look like this again then I’d rather just have my money back because it was not worth the price for product. She said okay, gave me my $25 back.

My husband said to me “in the food industry the customer is always right. They should apologize that the food was not up to par and that they would just remake it to be better. If there is still an issue afterwards then a refund would be acceptable. No accountability.”

Safe to say we would not be returning to this establishment. Our first time visit is our last.

Better authentic Mexican options worth money: La Carreta La Catrina restaurant...

Taco Tour #53 Rating on a 1-5 scale

Bellevue’s newest locally and family owned business.

The restaurant was designed with a “current” feel. It is a walk up and order restaurant, but I’m confused still on how you get the food. We were provided buzzers for when our food was ready, however some of our food was brought out to us and then other food had to be picked up when the buzzer went off.

Margarita (Mango and Lime) - They weren’t bad, but they weren’t great. For two large margaritas it was $31 😳 - 3

We ordered two appetizers; chips and guacamole and chips and choriqueso. We were only given one small order of chips, and when the second basket of chips was inquired, they initially requested the receipt be provided to prove that two appetizers were ordered, but then provided the chips.

The chips were a good thickness but didn’t have any salt on them. The guacamole was definitely homemade because it was basically whole halves of an avocado that we had to cut/mash ourselves in order to eat it with the chips. The choriqueso was white queso and chorizo. It was good but it’s pretty hard to mess that up.

Steak Taco: Flavor: 1 Fullness: 5 Appearance: 4

Chicken Taco Flavor: 2 Fullness: 2 Appearance: 2

The meat on both tacos was so bland. The tacos and seasoning did not come across as authentic at all. The corn tortillas were not tended to at all and were falling apart. Very disappointed.

We would definitely not return or suggest to anyone. We were here with a friend who stated that they see no reason to return either.

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