Mercado & Taqueria De Amigos — Restaurant in California

If you come to buy propane , 80 % of the time they can't find the keys to the padlock to the propane pump and you , the customer have to wait outside 5 minutes or more, at times in the rain then the manager uses his backup keys. Hey manager, SPEND $ 11 & GET A COMBINATION PADLOCK please! You can change the combination anytime you have staff changes. If I need to fill up my motorhome with propane it's even worse. During the waiting for someone to find the keys, thoughtless tourist will pull their car up and block my motorhome so I can't get out and they're not even eating at the restaurant they're just trying to use the bathroom and then two more cars will come and do the same thing so what should be a five-minute process end up being very hard on the customer. Now if you need to buy gasoline it's also usually not possible because, again, thoughtless customer's who are local farm workers on a Time budget,end up regularly parking their cars at the gas pump will they go stand in a long line to order their food , so they lose gasoline sales, and if someone isn't blocking the lane to the gas pump well they're just trying to use the bathroom, you cannot get in with a motorhome to fill it because the turn is too tight and there's usually cars parked where there should not be cars around the sign. Just because you can fit your farm truck in there doesn't mean it's a parking space Not a Gringo friendly place , which is a shame : They Only accept Cash, no Debit cards or Credit cards and then point you to their ATM to use to get cash, to pay for your food. ATM is very unstable and often doesn't work. And if you are lucky, and ATM is working, it only accepts Debt cards,not credit cards. So the entire process is set up to be easiest for the store convenient for them to only deal in cash and the customer is the one who doesn't get treated reasonably because of it he propane side and the gasoline side is 0 Stars but the food is delicious.

The groceries sold there are mostly all latino and almost nothing for anyone else. That also is very disturbing...

We were cold and wanted a bowl of artichoke soup, but Duarte's was closed on a Saturday evening--go figure. Then my partner said, "I know where we can go". He remembers when this place was a literally a hole in the wall inside of a gas station in the mid 90s. They served large meat burritos for $2.50 to mostly the local farm workers from down South (and also smart gringos.

On the outside, it is still a gas station situated on a corner. When we walked inside, there was a counter to order tacos and burritos. There were lots of people lined up ordering food. The place was clean and also smelled of wonderful Mexican flavors.

When I walked in the back there was a market filled with all the ingredients to feed a Mexican family. They had salsas; masa flour for making one's own tortillas from scratch; Mexican sodas; tall candles of the Virgin Mary; and cleaning products.

We decided to get just one small item--a fish taco made from snapper, and it was delicious!!! I am making myself hungry...

Food’s meh. However my complaint is based on their payment system. They only except cash…which is a little ridiculous specifically in today’s times! But I digress. I went there with a friend. I didn’t have cash so I pulled some money out in order to eat. Later on that evening I was checking my account online and realized that their ATM charged me $8.25 to pull out $20. Absolutely ridiculous! My guess is that they refuse to except cards because they can charge people more money by having them pull money out. It’s a scummy way of trying to come up on people that are simply trying to eat their food. Which in all honesty the food is mediocre at best. I recommend Mexican food in half moon bay. Better tasting and they aren’t out to...