Fonda Maria Restaurant — Restaurant in Downey

This is our go to place for breakfast after church on Sunday's. It has Authentic Homemade Mexican food. This is literally the kind of food I was raised with & am happy to say my 4yr old son loves. From the chips & salsa to the Cafe de Olla. Their Menudo is simply delicious! Other places use only one maybe even two types of meat for their Menudo but the menudo they make here, hmmm! I can assure you they use all three types of cow meat & feet (aka Pata), which is they way my mom made hers. And if u are a fan of hominy, they will add it to your Menudo. But why would you? If you have a big appetite you will not go wrong ordering La Fonda breakfast it's has a bit of everything. You can choose to share it or simply just yum it up! Another dish you might want to try is their Chilaquiles... they are nice & spicy and you can even order them with meat! Btw, the birria here is tasty & you can order it in tacos, quesadillas, burritos, even omelets. Yup! You heard right omelets. This place right here is the must try spot for all your Authentic Homemade Mexican food cravings. I guarantee you...

Hands down, they have one of the best chilaquiles de mole! They have such great flavor accompanied with the cheese, sour cream, scrambled eggs and beans. The Fonda especial dish is really good too. It comes with chilaquiles (not too spicy which is great), chicharrón verde, scrambled eggs, beans, and asada. Their iced cafe de olla and horchata are really good, except next time I would like less whipped cream on it. I will definitely be returning to try their other breakfast items and lunch options.

The prices are fairly reasonable given that they have big servings! Super good!

One thing I suggest is to please clean the menus with a clean cloth because they smelled really bad. They smelled musty and damp.

Lunch:

Good cocktails and the food was good.

Taquitos de papa: These were really good but I wished they had a green sauce that would be served with this dish.

Quesa birria tacos: The Consomé and tacos were spot on.

Wet burrito: The meat was flavorful, maybe the cheese on top could be melted for a better taste.

Tacos...

We been kinda regulars at the restaurant and when were trying to ordered our food the server milton was giving us a hard time and kinda telling me what to get instead he seem bothered makind odd faces and making innapropriate comments he kept saying to order what he wanted its not like that i wanna order what i want if i want chorizo on my huevos rancheros, nopales on my huevos rancheros i should get what i want he kept saying its very weird you guys ordered chorizo usually they never order this just comments that hes not supposed to say its like were getting the stuff for free when were not i just want to ordered whatever i want and not to be questioned period.. i will suggest to keep those comments to himself. He can offer suggestions i agree but dont make comments like its weird its odd.. and making faces.. be positive welcoming.. and like that you will...