Tacotote! — Restaurant in El Paso

One of the best taco places in town. They don't have the more street-like variety of tacos as other places, meaning they don't have tripitas or buche, and their pastor is not real pastor, is just some grilled seasoned pork tacos. For those kinds of tacos you need to look someplace else.

What they do have its the meanest, juiciest, well seasoned chicken, sirloin, fajita, mushroom and shrimp tacos. You can have such tacos in flour or corn tortillas, and you can make them quesadillas with any kind of meat. Very flexible and very yummy. The meats are very good quality and the tortillas are fresh made on the spot.

The other thing they have is a veggie and salsa bar to stuff for tacos. The bar is clean, fresh and extremely well kept. There is always someone from the staff cleaning and stocking the bar. Great service, and it shows.

They also have enchiladas. But if toy want enchiladas go to an enchilada place, really. You're here for tacos. On the same note, they sell "family parrilladas", which are skillets of meat. Take a pass on those. They are expensive and quite small. A four person parrillada will serve two or probably three adults. As said before, you're here for tacos.

And tacos it is! Since they can come a bit expensive for the cash sensitive like myself, and they are well served, I recommend the following ---

Sharing strategy for two: Ask for a taco tote pack. That comes with two tacos, one drink and a side. Request your tacos be quesadillas with your choice of meat and flour or corn tortillas, your side of choice and an extra side of guacamole, small, which is enough for four tacos. For your plus-one get two extra tacos or quesadillas. You will share the side, guacamole and drink, which you can refill as needed.

For the side I like to get the baked potato because it comes with a pack of sour cream that I use on my tacos to make them extra delicious... that said, you can always request sour cream, potato or not.

When you get your order, you load your tacos on the veggie bar. Each taco needs at least guacamole, sour cream, lettuce, pico de gallo, cilantro and toreados. Onions and radish optional. Add one or two salsas and a few drops of lime and you're good to go. Your tacos will barely close; that's ok.

Brace yourself for some serious taco binging. You just got four loaded tacos, one side, one guacamole, one sour cream and unlimited drink and veggies to share.

And what tacos! You will find it hard to get...

Love TacoTote and everytime I'm in El Paso it's a must stop for us. . This one location is alright. I wasn't too impressed with the lady taking our order. She seemed super dry and very short. And the tone of voice almost made it sound like we were an inconvenience. But then again not being able to see ones face or body language can be me reading too much into a voice conveyed through an interphone. Other than that, at the window they were a little bit better. Except when they handed us our order As soon as I reached to grab it and put it down, I turned back up to ask if they gave us straws and the window was slammed shut and never got anyone to pay attention to a waiting customers on the other side. Lucky for us there were straws in the bag at the bottom. All in all a very strange encounter... But then again these are very trying times for everyone so won't look too much into it. Food was good as usual. One more thing, we asked for green sauce and got guacamole instead... One last thing, you are required to wear a mask at the drive thru window and they will ask for your ID for any transaction...

First the good then the really, really bad.

GOOD: the food is tasty as always and the salsa bar allows you to put it all together nicely.

REALLY REALLY BAD: we walked in and there was no waiting to place our order. Sadly, we waited to place our order for over 5 minutes without so much as a greeting or an acknowledgement that our presence had been noticed. When the lady made her way towards us, she simply stood in from of the register and stared at us whilst raising her eyebrows as in asking what we wanted to order using only her condescending body language. At this point single word has yet to be exchanged between customer and employee. She made it impossible to address her by name since her sweater covered her name tag. The best way I can identify her is by her drive through head set uniform accessory. Regretfully, her horrendous service left a sour taste in our mouths and will have us thinking of visiting other establishments prior to returning...