La Perla Tapatia — Restaurant in Oceanside

i go everywhere with my service dog. here was no different, and they acted as if he was not there, and i am grateful!

my first time in i wanted to try a lil bit of everything. so i started with a shrimp burrito and it was top tier! when they ask if everything is okay, answer yes. had the green salsa with it and it was just right.

next i tried the asada nachos with everything and with red salsa and it was equally impressive. a note to take with this dish is that the chips are legit. when you taste a real tortilla chip, it feels like eating it for the first time. was not the first time i had one but it has been awhile since i ate one in a restaraunt! there is a generous amount of meat accompanied with the fixin's necessary to enjoy a dish called nachos!

they have a great selection of pan. jelly cake is my favorite, which was delicious. and i got some jarritos, not alot of options but tutti frutti was there so i am stoked.

finally i wanna say that the staff were all very nice and professional. they talked to me with respect and happiness in spanish and english. a rarity in these times. thank you very much to all that i interacted with and who had a hand in making my experience a wonderful one. prolly gonna keep coming here daily and supporting this local business. if you see us around...

La Perla Tapatia has one cashier and like a million customers as a result your visit which would normally take about 3 to 5 minutes takes 30 to 45 minutes. The same one girl checks out the people buying meats, the people buying pan dulce, the folks buying fruit, the individual buying takeout fast food, and yup the same one girl that does check out when one buys tortillas also has to take orders for Masa and all incoming calls which include but are not limited to queries and orders for pan dulce or full on cakes. That's 15'ra cakes, regular BDay cakes, baptism cakes, sweet 16 cakes, wedding cakes, divorce cakes, we just bought a new house and everybody's cooking over cake, Baby shower cake, 3 leches cake, Congratulations Grad cake. First period slumber party cake, bar mitzvah cake you know any kind of cake you can think of for any occasion. Sheet cakes, round cakes, tower cakes, cakes with a cascade, square cakes, chocolate cakes, cheese cakes, vanilla cakes, vanilla cakes with strawberry filling, phone orders for fast food take out for many dozens of pounds of tortillas, to answer questions like "what time is the fresh bolillo aka birote or teleras out... you know it goes on and on... enter at your own risk. Time is...

Traditional Mexican market experience. Love the food, the ladies that work there are super helpful. I have a sensitive stomach that acts up when I eat low quality or poorly prepared food, and not once have I felt sick after eating here!

Not all of the employees speak English, but that's OK! Everyone there wants to help, and is confident to ask you questions to make sure you get what you want, even if there is a language barrier. Example of this was today my back was hurting, I went in for my breakfast and to buy some Tylenol. They got it all at the register for me, and I asked her how to say "back pain" in Spanish, to which the other lady who did not speak English came over and suggested instead of Tylenol I take Flanax. I took her suggestion and feel so much better, works better than my typical Tylenol fix, and I've never heard of Flanax before. She could have sold me the Tylenol, and that would have been fine, but she went out of her way to make a suggestion from her experience, and that shows compassion that I don't expect from a stranger.

10/10, they will be seeing me most-every morning while I'm working...