Taqueria Los Santos — Restaurant in California

Myself and two friends were looking for a good breakfast spot. We don't like chains, so we looked for a mom and pop breakfast spot, and came across Jenny’s Country Kitchen. But Jenny's was packed, but the taqueria in the same Plaza wasn't. So we thought to give it a try.

-The service at Taqueria Los Santos is standard. Not excellent, but not bad. -The food wasn't bad either. Kind of unremarkable. The price was outrageously expensive, especially considering the food was standard taqueria fare.

We were prepared to pay around $40 to $50 dollars for breakfast, as my friend's entrees were $11.99 and mine $10.99. We also each had an orange juice and 2 cups of coffee. Grand total: $73 and some change, not including the tip.

Charging $5.00 for an 8 ounce glass of orange juice is ridiculous. Also, $5.00 for a cup of coffee is equally ridiculous. I mean, they charged us $2.00 for a small cup of syrup for the pancakes we ordered.

So at the end of our mediocre breakfast at a taqueria, we were out $80.00. Which is approximately how much we would have spent on a 4 star breakfast elsewhere.

Won't be back. Why would we when we can get double the quality at half the price at many other local businesses? If the owner is reading this, you're going to have to get competitive if you're gonna keep up with Jenny's Country Kitchen a few spots down. There's a big reason they're packed and you're not.

*UPDATED REVIEW That reply from the owner really drills in the point that this place should be avoided. I'm a local guide for 7 years and I've never been replied to in such an unprofessional manner. Me and my friends are just one less customer?? Classy. Way to hurt your own business. We pride ourselves on supporting local businesses, but owners like you don't appreciate, nor deserve, customers like us. The review I offered is meant to inspire improvement, not a...

"Taco Tuesday" Went there this evening, just wanting tacos out of a restaurant instead of a food truck. The service from the waitress was amazing - she was super sweet and wanted to make sure she had our order right. I had the 2 x $1.99 Tuesday Special (2 pastor & 2 carnitas) my son order a chicken burrito and tacos gorvenador (shrimp tacos with cheese) sadly, we didn't eat the majority of the food. The taco shells (tortillas) were cold and greasy and the meat was just bland ... I chucked it up to S1 tacos what can I really expect. Then I saw that my son was NOT eating his burrito he just said it tasted bad at the most he took 2 bites, and we payed for a ton of extras (sour cream, cheese, guacamole) so leaving that kind hurt. The star of the show and the ONLY reason I would consider returning is for thr tacos gorvenador (shrimp tacos) Our bill /check out was not handled by our waitress but by a very rude man! He looked at us as if he was annoyed by our presence (side note we are bi-racial) I tried to stay positive and said maybe its the lay out or the traffic at the entrance ... ordering/pick-ups/payments and the entrance/exit is all in the same place so it's congested...that in combination with the staff trying to get to and from the outdoor tacos station etc. Well, he had an eye roll and a very can you hurry type attitude. It being that he just threw an amount at us, I asked him if he can please itemize my items and give me a receipt. He DIDN'T like that one bit. Long review short the food lacked it was way over priced, and we walked out and both stated I would have picked McDonald's over this!!! (McDonald's is across the street) I hope this...

First I'd like to say, the lady (blonde) that took our order was soo nice! We told her it was our first time and she said "you're gunna love it" .. after having the food, I'd assume she hasn't eaten there herself. The menudo had 3 "patas" which is typically asked if you want one; but it had 3 & we don't really ever get that. Meat was very fatty! Red stringyness I've never seen in menudo before. Super UnderFlavored!! Hominy was still tough

Birra taste like they ran out of sauce and threw in some mole sauce to it. Pretty sweet. Super Odd.

Beans were forsureee from a can. No reason for that when beans are inexpensive and from a Mexican restaurant, shouldn't have a problem making em from scratch.

Alpastor Taco was good!

Cafe de la olla was goood! But the rest of the food just killed the vibe.

Nopal mulita was a special request and was so sad to have soggy underflavored nopales.

And the Mexican Coke has no business being $5. Even with inflation.

For a total if $59 after tax

P.S restroom was outback, which is cool! But there were tons of dirty boxes and flies from the food outside their kitchen door.. bad smell coming from them.. just a turnoff

**I edited the post to remove the pricing cause I was off a bit, but the total was still $59 and not reasonable for the quality. There was 3 patas in the menudo, 2 are shown in the photo below. We personally love and only support small business. So no intention of making a small business look bad.. this is just a review on...