Tamales Elena — Restaurant in Los Angeles

I've been coming here for so many years now. The food is always great and delicious. Great service. Great, everything. I remember the mom and her daughters. When I was a baby girl always looking out for them. To see if there would be passing by the house because I wanted some tamales. And the drinks. The mom and her family of Elena, tamales have been knowing our family for a very long time. So many years and I'm still coming here and eating. My food is so great and delicious. Especially when they have their big orders for the holidays. I do highly recommend coming here and...

Monday thru Friday the tamales taste good. Saturday and Sunday they taste way different. I believe someone else is doing them on the weekends because they don't taste the same. They are also way smaller too.

Update: Nov 1 they went up to smaller tamales for $1.50. Plus, they hardly had any chicken and are very small now. Champurado was also water-down. This place has hit rock bottom. How sad! If they were big for $1.50 I wouldn't of had a problem , but they were so tiny. They used to be big when they were a $1.00 back then. Even the hot green sauce is missing...

I give their red tamales a rating of 10! I recently tried their shredded beef hard shell tacos; I give their tacos, described above a rating of 3; they are super small and they cost between $2 - $3. I honestly thought they would be a bit bigger for the price. The taste was pretty good but I felt cheated when I saw that they were too small. They overcharge you. If they would make them bigger, they would be worth it. I will continue to buy their red tamales (their green chile chicken tamales are really good also), but I will never buy their...