Los 3 Garcia Taqueria — Restaurant in Huntsville

Found myself here with coworkers for lunch out this week. I don't tend to eat Mexican food that often, but I'd heard great things about this new-ish spot, so when they brought it up as an option, I agreed that I'd be down to try.

Located in the same shopping center as Betty Mae's, Dark Side, and Kim's Diner, there's ample parking. I noticed Los 3 Garcia hours are pretty long - they're open till 10 PM most nights - so it may be a good option if you're looking for a bite at a later hour.

The first thing you see is the cash register when you walk in; I mistakenly thought it was an order at the counter place, but a waitress quickly appeared and found a booth for the three of us. You do pay at the counter when you're done, though. The shape of the restaurant is sort of like one long, kinda thin rectangle, but it's painted a bright, welcoming orange and the booths are comfortable, so overall a nice space.

Service was lovely -- drinks were placed and filled and refilled promptly, they provided extra chips, super accommodating about grabbing my coworker some jalapeños and salt, and our food came out fast, too. All with big smiles! Can't do much better than that.

We were in a rush to make it to a meeting, so I didn't get to look at the menu as closely as I'd ordinarily like. Wound up playing it safe and ordering chicken and rice, at the recommendation of a coworker. They have a great looking veggie quesadilla that I almost nabbed, but chickened out at the last second, lol. This place is very cool in that it seems to balance dishes for more Americanized palates (eg chicken and rice) well with more traditional options (like the availability of lengua and tripa for tacos, if you so choose)!

For me, the salsa had too much cilantro in it. But it tasted really fresh! I just have the anti-cilantro gene, haha. Chips needed a little bit more salt but were fresh and crispy. The queso we shared was awesome - just what I've been craving lately. Not too gloopy, perfectly melted, no complaints here at all! The chicken on my chicken and rice was cooked and seasoned nicely, with more cheese dip (heck yeah) covering most of the dish. The rice had good flavor but was a little mushy. Oh well. There was more than enough to take a serving home in a box, so I got two meals out of my lunch. Score!

All in all, I enjoyed my visit and would return to get my same order again or to try something new. The lovely service was a...

The street tacos were really good I ordered an asada taco. I loved their corn tortillas they did not fall apart like others do. I should have stuck to just street tacos, but I wanted to try a lot of things because the prices were reasonable.

I ordered a fish taco because I like to try all the fish tacos and I did not like it. 1st it came in a flour tortilla, this must be a tex mex thing and im not used to it and it turns me off. This is the first place where I've seen that the fish was diced and it was a bit salty. And I liked finely sliced cabbage in the slaw with more lime, they gave me a lime for the street taco but not the fish taco. There was also no sauce on the fish taco.

I also got flautas. I think I need to stop ordering flautas that say it is wrapped with a corn tortilla, (this must also be a tex mex thing) I thought because it was in a corn tortilla it will be more like a rolled taco that I miss so much from CA, but it looked like an enchilada that was deep fried which is what I got at Rosie's. It wasn't bad but not what I wanted. The beans and rice were okay. I feel like I can find rolled tacos and flautas the way I like at the frozen section at the grocery stores here so I get confused why it's so different at restaurants out here.

I also ordered their horchata and it was also okay. Not my favorite in the area.

I'd like to try some of the other items that people liked in their reviews. I love chile verde so I might try...

Absolutely unequivocally my favorite place to eat lunch and dinner. The ower and servers are wonderful. I count off for nasty restrooms but theirs has consistently been spotless, clean and don’t stink. I don’t care how good a restaurant is, if the restrooms are nasty and or stink- I’m outta there. This place is 100% about a good dining experience. The location sucks, but, on the good side it’s not over run and always a relaxing place to meet clients or just eat in peace. The salsa gives it a A +. My favorite is their u pique Teachers salad. The chicken and steak fajitas are almost too good. I have eaten there 11 meals in a row. Average, 4 times a week....