San Jose Taqueria & Carniceria — Restaurant in Mobile

For as long as I lived in Mobile, Carnicería y Taqueria San Jose has eluded me. I’ve seen the name of this restaurant when searching Mexican food but never realized where it was. It’s been hiding in plain sight to me. Anyway I wanted to try some Mexican food but the real kind and not the fake. I at first thought I wanted some tacos but I ultimately settled on quesadillas. The reason I picked quesadillas over tacos was mainly because quesadillas came with rice and beans. It was that simple. I ordered my meal online and decided to head over to the restaurant. I got there earlier than what the estimated time in my email said my food would be ready. The place was pretty close to packed. I realized the store was more than a restaurant because it displayed cuts of meat in the glass counter. I saw a family with children with popsicles that the parents had purchased along with the meal. When I moved further in the store I was approached by a employee and I told them I made an online order. She went back in the kitchen and came back with my food after a short wait. When I got back home, I couldn’t wait to eat. There was a plate for salad and a plate for the quesadilla with the rice and beans. I mixed up the salad with the rice and beans. I don’t eat Mexican food a lot so I’m not sure if that’s how it’s done but that’s how I did it. I enjoyed it. Next I tried the carne asada quesadilla. This was like no quesadilla I had before. I say this knowing all quesadillas basically consist of the same thing: dough, meat, and cheese. This quesadilla was on another level because each of those ingredients were much better than what I’ve experienced before. The cheese was really the star of the quesadilla. It was so rich. I really loved this quesadilla. It was the best one I’ve ever had in life. Before I forget I want to mention I bought a Mexican Coca Cola with my meal. I could taste the difference from regular Coke but I can’t exactly describe it. I loved it though.

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I really wanted to like this place. I have had the best Mexican food in the supermarket restaurants. This one looks a bit rougher than what I've seen but I didn't let that discourage us. The table were we sat was not as clean as it should have been. It looked as if the food that was left on the table before us was wiped on to the seats. I swiped it off and went to the restroom to wash my hands. That's where I felt like this may not be the best place to consume food. Not to clean and had NO SOAP! ... (how do the employees wash their hands.😣 but we stayed. Not a good choice... Guacamole was great but chips were stale, the tacos, delicious the beans and rice would have been fantastic if they would have been heated to a decent temp. As I was going in for my next taco, I looked over and had a roach staring at me from on top of the ketchup bottle. Like he was fixing to move in and take over. I guess we took his table and he wasnt having it. So needless to say the next time I see reviews with these types of concerns, I will most definitely...

WARNING WARNING... I had lunch with my family and roaches were crawling the wall, that's why I always get very sick when we eat from there, I don't know if it's because the food has bacteria or what it is. Is not the first time we get sick but health department needs to make some inspections to make sure what's going on in the kitchen because my refried beans had a funny taste and smell like decompose food, I threw it away because I was afraid to end up in the hospital. Omg we went back to eat to that place just to give it a chance to to get the doubts we had about getting sick after eating there. Jesus Christ, the tacos had nothing but hard cartilage, hard skin that not even my dog was so dumb to eat it. After done trying to eat what we could, an explosive diarrhea almost immediately for 2 days. We couldn't sleep because we spent all night sitting on the toilet. I don't believe we're the only one experiencing the same problem, health department please make a serious inspection in this place before...