La Alameda Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in New Port Richey

When greeted by the waitress and ordering our drinks, we were let down to learn they don't have lemons for our water, what restaurant doesn't have lemons? Then we're told they don't have queso dip, only "yellow queso". This is a Mexican restaurant right!? We decided to try it and were brought freakin nacho cheese! Then ordering my taco I was they do not have beef, only chicken and steak, What!? When I received my chicken tacos, even though I wanted beef, it was with a soft tortilla because, you guessed it, they don't have hard taco shells!! And at that, the tortilla shell was soggy and gross and all that was in the taco was chicken diced up very thin, cilantro and onion. Those 3 things, thats it! Absolutely no flavoring... Very very bland. I honestly couldn't stomach to eat it even after trying to flavor it up with the salsa left over from my chips. I told them I'd like it taken off of my bill as I was not satisfied and only took one bite of it, and the owner refused. He said you order it, you pay for it. Really!? What restaurant works like that!? We went back and forth with him for a minute before he threw his hands up and said he will call the cops if we don't pay for it!! (We said we would pay for the other meals we got, just not the one we didn't eat and didn't like). He just walked away. We told the poor waitress who apologized for his behavior and the food it wasn't her fault and to please just charge us for what we ate only, as we refused to pay for that dish. She agreed and we paid and left. Apparently he didn't call the cops as we never got a call or saw them, which he should be grateful about because I was prepared to tell the cops how the female cook was drinking in the back while cooking. I will NEVER go back there again. It was not only the worst Mexican restaurant I've ever been to, but probably the worst...

La Alameda has REAL Mexican tacos and great homemade salsa. If you have never had real Mexican tacos, please understand what they are and what to expect. The tortilla, thin white corn meal patties, are homemade, LIGHTLY heated, steamed, sometimes they used two together, so they are very soft. There is an exceptional choice of different meats at La Alameda but DO NOT EXPECT HAMBURGER MEAT with a packet of taco seasoning because they don't have it. The different types of meats are quite savory, home cooked, usually shredded, tender, with exceptional flavor but NO red CHILI Pepper seasoning in it or other typical TEX MEX seasonings. They are totally different from TEX MEX tacos. Do NOT think taco bell. On the meat will be some cilantro and onion, that is ALL. With the tacos they serve four salsas including green sauce, HOT sauce, avocado sauce and some kind of roast tomato/pepper not hot sauce. The other three sauces have some heat and the hot sauce is HOT. I've had hotter but it's up there.

They also have many other choices of traditional Mexican dinners including mole sauce but I like the tacos so well I haven't tried them. Do not expect to hear nothing but English because most of the patrons will be speaking Spanish. This is what I look for when I go to a new Mexican restaurant - one that has "home cooking". My friend likes the tacos really well but is enamored of Ortega bottled taco sauce so we took a small plastic container of his favorite sauce. So if you HAVE to have some gringo accompaniment, bring it yourself, don't expect them to provide it. If you want lettuce and tomato and shredded cheese on your tacos, ask for it. I honestly don't know if they have all three but "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" (with apologies to Meatloaf)

Well worth a few miles if you've never had real Mexican tacos...

Ok, disclaimer.. I REALLY dislike knocking a restaurant for an employee not being particularly chipper. However it IS the service industry & this IS a review so I'll at least mention it. The person who took my to-go order was either not particularly "chipper" enough (for me?), or was having a bad day, or was a quiet, low key service professional, or..?? (My guess? #3!) NOW, let's get to the goo-, make that the GREAT stuff! The food! Mexico City at it's finest, or so I was told by a former resident & although I've not had the pleasure of visiting, I do not doubt him, as the food was excelente! I had simple fare, (I am on a tight budget) but I was still able to get 2 tacos, 1 pork, or carnitas, (which is usually deep fried pork shoulder) and 1 spiced sausage or chorizo, (made in house I was informed by the low key, quiet but pro server/cashier!) with an awesome red sauce, the name of which escapes me, all for $5 & change + a (to go) tip! Oh and I added (asadero?) cheese to each taco for 0.30¢ each. It only had the meat & cheese on it so I guess it typically only comes packed w/ meat (I thought there'd be some veggies but this is not taco- Well.. I forgot to ask so Idk if it's extra!) on a small tortilla. Looking back I should have gotten the 3 tacos w/ your choice of meat (there were at least 4-5, including ground beef, but also bistec, or steak if I remember correctly) w/ rice & beans for $8.99! Well, I'll rectify that mistake tomorrow as I'm absolutely...