La Taquiza — Restaurant in Edinburg

Located on Sugar Road in between the entrance to Walmart and the Golden Chick, La Taquiza offers a variety of authentic Mexican tacos and loaded baked potatoes.

There are wooden booths lined up on the right as you enter, as well as a number of tables and chairs in the dining room, which is large enough to accommodate families or groups. Bright colors of yellow and fuschia on the walls and Mexican paper cut out (papel picado) brighten up the ceiling.

You can order at the front or take a seat, and one of their servers will take your order. This evening, their servers were friendly, attentive, and fast..

I ordered at the counter. Once at my table, I was brought some frijoles preparados and my drink. They had several aguas frescas (limonada, horchata, and jamaica), and I chose the limonada, which was well-made, not too strong, nor too tart, nor too sweet.

My RB tacos arrived promptly. They are bistek, avocado, and cheese on freshly made corn tortillas, served with grilled onions and cilantro on the side. An order was five tacos, which were well stuffed. There were two salsas from which to choose: a mild green salsa and a spicy red one. I put some of both on my tacos and enjoyed it.

The food is delicious. The service was great. The prices were a bit high considering what other taco places offer, but the quality was good.

The only thing I didn't care for was the style of music, norteño style música de banda, which was just loud enough to make a conversation a chore. I would have preferred a softer jaliciense style mariachi, but that's a personal preference.

There is a sink at the end of a hall where you can wash your hands, but there were no paper towels in the dispenser. I looked in the men's restroom and could not see any paper towels there either. What was more serious is there was no toilet paper! Perhaps, like in some restaurants in Mexico, you have to ask for some at the counter? Or maybe I caught them at a bad time.

There is plenty of parking in the private parking lot, which is shared with a few other businesses.

Overall, I enjoyed it, and I think you will too. Just BYOTP if you think you...

Today, 4/23/2022 @8:35pm, I ordered 3 orders of the toreados tacos and a large potato to-go. I must say the carne is good, nothing exceptional, just good. However, the tortilla disintegrates with the meat's moisture and tears in your fingers as you get it to bite the taco. I have ordered from them 3 times before and all the times I specifically ask them for raw chopped onion with cilantro and they say they will include, they never do, just the cilantro and grilled onion. This gives the impression that they have them pre-cooked onions and wrapped in foil and do not fresh cut your requested onion or other veggies. The beans are average tasting, nothing impressive. The cilantro is not fresh, its old and yellowish most of the time. I hope the owner sees this review and opts to up the quality of service in the drive thru. They really need to pay attention to detail and place the customers needs first if they want to grow, otherwise this business will lose...

07 March 2024: Seemingly racist staff will delay in serving caucasian patrons if they can prolong it for as long as possible. The staff member available served three other parties before my friend and I had a chance to ask for our orders. Three other parties who were seated after us received their food before we got anything. If you do not call the staff over repeatedly, you will be ignored. On the other hand, if you are law enforcement 07March2024) or do not look caucasian then you will receive prompt and excellent service. These gentlemen got their food within four minutes of entering the restaurant, were greeted professionally, and had their food brought out quickly. Barring this, whether understaffed or not, it was abundantly clear I was not welcome in this establishment. Which is a shame as the food is tremendously delicious, full of flavor, and...