La Taqueria Tradicional — Restaurant in El Paso

3.5 Stars - This place was recommended by a friend and because of it we had high expectations. When we arrived they told us to sit anywhere. The place was rather packed during lunch time. When we sat down I took a good 10 minutes for a waitress to give us a menu. Then another 10 to take our order. We ordered quesadilla, tacos, chile con queso, aguas frescas and baked potato. It took a minute to get our order but was expected as restaurant was busy (and seems that away everywhere now) the new norm after covid.

The chile con queso was good the only issue was the cheese wasn't fully melted so small chunks were present.

Onto the tacos. Bistek was by far the best! Had good flavor, meat was tender and loved how the tortillas are oily for added authentic taste.

Tripitas we requested "crunchy" or in Spanish doraditas and they just weren't good. I've had way better.

Sirloin had no seasoning and the meat just didn't taste like sirloin.

Buche they have good flavor just way too greasy for my liking as if oil was poured on them before they bring to table.

Pastor it was ok what I didn't particularly like is that the cumin seasoning was overpowering.

As for the papa and quesadilla well they never brought it out and our waitress was MIA so we couldn't ask what happened.

Best thing here were the aguas frescas they were delicious and they serve a lot!

Interesting thing is they have a delicacy dish ... cricket tacos.. I may come one day and try them out.

The question is would I recommend to someone else? Unfortunately, I don't think I would. For the fact that I know there are better tacos to be...

Alright… I’m about to go all out on this place… I’m done.Never going back. My wife and I having been coming here since 2022, before the restaurant expanded their building, before the eloteria. Back when they would play food videos on all their TVs. Last night will be the last day we ever go 2/2/2025. The food here is amazing.We love it.Even last night it was so good. But the service is absolutely horrible. Every time we go, it always ALWAYS happens where we just order our food and get our food and never see our server again. Like clockwork.Here you have to get your order all out on the first try because you will not see them again.It happens EVERY time.Despite that we still go for the food because it’s that good.But last night I had a hair in my frijoles charos. I ordered 4 tripa , 4 buche , 4 pastor and never received my tripas. I saw our server walk out of the building.Never seen again. We had to get another server to bring us the bill and then she brings us the bill charging me for the tripas. She goes to “fix it”. Comes back and only took off 2 tripa tacos instead of the 4 I didn’t receive. At that point I didn’t care ,I just wanted to leave. So I paid for the food I never got and we left.Totally robbery. I left no tip. I don’t care that the food is good,I’m never going back. I’ll take my business to Beso Taqueria. Y’all lost a loyal customer, we used to love...

I went and I order a torta and a pistachio fresh water the pistachio water doesn't even taste like pistachio not even a bit, the torta was a regular bouillon telera not big like they said I don't even find the mayo or tomatoes on it it has a lot of butter only and it was not even full of meat like they said but a lot of cheese yes bs,I ask the weiter Stephanie if I order something to go can I sit an eat it in the patio she said that cause is a order to go you cannot eat it there or she will be charge me again for each taco, I ask her about family packs like one pound or half pound of meat she said she doesn't have that that the customers need to figure out for how much people they want to order, then she wants me to offers me the pound of meat, I said now i told that i saw the prices the day before but i didnt order anything she said she dont have those prices for the pound of meat and half but i see them. So was ready to paid she gave me the ticket but she gave me a very light green pen for me to sing so I took my pen and sind the ticket, cause when employees use those kind of pens they can change the amount of the tips and get more than what it is. The place was duty, either outside, and the music extremedly loud, you can't even talk to nobody so stupid and ridiculous my first time i go there and my last never go...