Tacos El Tio # 2 — Restaurant in Bellflower

99 cent Taco Tuesdays & Thursdays

Formerly a Burgers y Mas and an Asian Box, Mariscos y Tacos el Tio's signage for 99 cent tacos piqued my interest, and I had to check them out for myself.

The usual meat options of carne asada, carnitas & chicken and more are available. But, I go for the offal - lengua, tripas & cabeza. The tripas were awful, not offal. Old, hard & disgusting. It was as if they were leftovers from the day before. The lengua & cabeza were more agreeable, and were decent when considering the price. The corn tortillas used are problematic, though. They tear when folded, leaving a mess in their wake.

Service was fine. An old school microphone, the likes of which you'd find at a nuclear facility circa 1960, is the method for communication, due to the plexiglass barrier. Mariscos y Tacos el Tio is located within the 7-Eleven strip mall.

While there are specials galore at Mariscos y Tacos el Tio, I go for the cheap Tues & Thurs tacos. Never again with the tripas, I may go for the common options, to go along with lengua & cabeza. It's cheap & easy, which is fine by...

Not bad for taco Tuesday. You can get a dollar tacos on Tuesday and Thursday, does not matter what meat it is.

The service is also quite fast, my food was ready in 5 minutes. There is a salsa bar with a lot of different salsas with lemon and cucumber too. As for the food, it is nothing special. Didn’t really stand out to me but it was decent. The tortillas tasted a bit old though and the meat wasn’t that great.

It was also hot in there. They have a ceiling fan but it’s definitely on the lowest setting because we couldn’t...

I ordered and taquito plate with beans rice. For one they were like four small taquitos that added up to actually being two. The beans taste watered down with no flavor. Even the rice had no flavor , Wow I mean Spanish rice with no flavor. Then the top it off the taquitos were so burnt that they all crumbled and you couldn't even tell what type of me it was inside it was so burnt that the The chicken look see through but not clear burnt in a shell.. Second time is...