Frida Taqueria — Restaurant in Hawaii

Please Note: This review was written in 2022 and posted at Fridas Hawaii in Ewa by mistake. My apologies.

It's a small little Mexican restaurant in Waipahu. Staff is very friendly. Food tastes really delicious. This is my third time coming to this restaurant. Their shrimp enchiladas were very tasty. It came with rice and beans. Portion size was a little small for what you pay for. My wife ordered the tostadas with hamburger, and it wasn't to my liking. Their hamburger mixture has peas in it in which I felt didn't match. The Birria tacos is amazing! This was the first time I've ever tried this. These tacos are very cilantro forward. If you're like me, where cilantro tastes like soap, I can tell you that these are delicious and don't taste like soap. The portion was small, in my opinion. I just wanted more! Esquites, which is their street corn, is very tasty, very creamy. The street tacos are very tiny. You can gobble them up in 1-2 bites. Fried ice cream is okay. Portion size is good for 2-3 to share. The banana loca is just amazing! I highly recommend this. It was just warm and flavorful, with a scoop of ice cream on top. It was perfect for my wife and I to share. Overall, I will be coming back here for more. On all visits, we spend an average of +$70 for two of us. Food is really tasty. Just portion size...

This place is very small, and not in a great part of town. We saw some homeless people urinating on the fence across the street. That's not the fault of the restaurant. We ordered 4 meals. They came out separately, and 3 of them were great, but one was cold in the middle, like it was in a fridge all day, and they didn't heat it throughout. It made me wonder about the legitimacy of the food. When we inquired about the desserts in the fridge, the girl told us that a cupcake was vanilla. We got it to go, and we were charged $8 for ONE cupcake. When we got home, the cupcake was not only dry and hard as a rock, but it was LEMON, not vanilla. We didn't call the restaurant to tell them, so we didn't give them a chance to make it right, and I really wish we would have. What a rip off. After the cold meal, the bad quality of the dessert, and the worker giving us false information, I don't know if I can...

I was really in the mood for Mexican food, and as you guys know, it’s kind of hard to find a good place here on Oahu. So, while driving by, I noticed that the door to Frida’s was open, and I decided to give it a try. It’s a small place with just a few tables, but it’s very nice and clean. I ordered a super burrito with chicken, and I have to say that the taste was spot on, very similar to some family owned places on the mainland. The chicken meat kind of got lost in the rice and guacamole, so I recommended to the staff member that this menu item should be balanced out a little bit more with additional meat. I think for $17 or so, customers would expect more of the substance and less of the filler. Other than that, it was tasty and I will certainly go there again, especially since it’s relatively close to my home. I think their prices are reasonable and you do get...