El Sauz Tacos 2 — Restaurant in Glendale

I recently moved to Glendale after living most of my whole life in the Redondo Beach area. We have a few fast food Mexican places that are in-expensive and satisfying, so of course I needed to meet that expectation in my new town. A Glendale local suggested El Sauz. If you live anywhere south of the hills, it’s super easy to get to being right on the same street as Target and mall on Colorado Blvd.

The best thing about this burrito stand are the tortillas. I order the vegetarian burrito for about $6, which stays together until you’ve eaten it. It’s more moist than King Taco’s tortilla which is dry and broke on me mid-meal. Instead, this tortilla reminds me of the fresh ones you watch being made in front of you in Mexico with a stretch texture.

It's a cash-only restaurant but it does have an ATM. That’s another plus because many great little restaurants in L.A. don’t have them at all and the idea of fast food is the convenience of being able to pay with a card or have ATM access on-site. On top of that, they have great service too. There's a small back patio where you can eat away from the busy street. I quickly found that living in Glendale means it gets very hot compared to the beach cities, so El Sauz’s shaded patio is perfect. It’s a close walk from many neighborhoods where I can bring my dog along. It’s the first on my list of local eats where I want to impress someone because it’s close to the shopping, the food is made quickly and it's priced really well.

The parking is convenient to access, just don't miss the turn because it's on a busy street. I usually pick up lavash or other bread at the bakery next door during my...

I called El Sauz #2 In the middle of the afternoon last week with this bright idea that I wanted to feed the football team for my son‘s 15th birthday and surprise him and his teammates and so I called and asked if they could fill a very large order with such short notice … The goal was to see if they could feed the ENTIRE Glendale Nitros Football Team Plus their coaches and their wives and/‘ A few other staff members…(48 players and five coaches within two hours) and man oh man did they come through I was so grateful and amazed… they made 52 burritos 75 tacos and all the yummy fixens on the side..So much onion and cilantro and hot sauce and radishes etc. I couldn’t believe it they did an amazing job!! I had decided to do this at the last moment for my son‘s 15th birthday because of Covid and you know all this crazy stuff that’s going on in our world right now it was just OK priceless to see all of their smiling faces when food arrived but to see my son‘s face when he realize that this was all for him and an honor of him getting a 4.0 GPA and just being a good human being the way he is my son Alexander Shirvanian and doing so well on the football team this last year I just wanted to make it special for him and El Sauz along with the nitro coaches and the head coaches wife Victoria of whom I couldn’t of done this without her and so again very thankful very grateful they deserve more than five stars they deserve 20 stars they deserve 100 stars thank you guys for all your help and making my son have a day that he’ll remember for the rest of his life especially since he put his face in the cake LOL thank you thank you...

UPDATE 2023: I visited on three separate days (Sun., Mon., Tues.) on three separate weeks. It was around noon each time and El Suaz Tacos was closed each time. Other people were confused too. Nob signage. Called today (Sat.) and no answer. Google says they're open...

ORIGINAL POST: It's been a year since I've been here and to my surprise, there have been changes. Since 2003 I've only known the business as Gina's Tacos. My biggest worry was that homemade salsa and tacos would be different. Well, the carnitas and asada tacos were tasty and when requested, the polite lady who took my order gave me plenty of lime, sliced radish and hot sauce. El Sauz is more generous with the amount of meat on each taco than Gina' s was, which is good considering prices have gone up. Unfortunately, as feared, the old Gina' s Tacos hot salsa is gone. SUPER. SAD. Fortunately though, the horchata was flavorful and the new salsa has decent flavor with more heat. I was sniffing in my helmet when I rode away (mostly because I miss the old salsa flavor but will admit I'm a weakling with spicy things). All things change. I'll go...