Taqueria Los Portales — Restaurant in Newark

☆☆☆☆☆ Latest update: Order a super soft taco with carnitas for appertizer. And for main dish, order the Garlic Shrimp. Caveat: do not stuff yourself with chips. And even with the appertizer, eat about half so you'd have enough stomach to enjoy the main dish. This place looks like "a hole in the wall" (figure of speech) but don't let it fool you. It is a full restaurant. (Today is Friday, Dec. 13, 2024)

Holy enchiladas! This is a small spot on the wall, and it is very authentic. As authentic of Mexican food as you can get. I order the Super soft Taco with carnitas. It is delicious 😋 I have been in Fremont since around 1996, and this restaurant has been there before me.

Now, I don't have to drive down to San José for Mexican food auténtico. I am not Hispanic but when I was in college, I used to work at an authentic Mexican restaurant as a waiter. I learned Español and food. I love it. I do recommend this place to others looking for an authentic food.

Muchas gracias...

The restaurant was very clean and the service was good. The food wasnt fantastic or even authentic for that matter. The tortilla chips aren't made in house, it's something from a bag so they taste pretty commercial. I had a veggie burrito and what I appreciated was tge variety of veggies that I didn't expect in a burrito such as the zucchini. My daughter really liked her veggie burrito. The salsas were all very mild. I requested jalapeños and was surprised to see them served split and grilled- that was new to me and sufficed for adding flavor but I really wanted some raw jalapeño for the kick and I would have requested them that way had I known that wasn't the default. We haven't been back but I'd take my daughter there for another burrito since she liked it. Again, the environment is clean and the...

Place was good before Covid. Visited recently and was shocked at how bad the quality of has changed. Ordered al pastor super quesadilla and was given something worse than what you get at taco bell. Almost no cheese or meat. Al pastor had bones in it. This place was really good before covid and now I will not return. It was not an isolated incident. My coworker ordered a super quesadilla and found the same bad quality...