La Mano Tortilleria — Restaurant in Pico Rivera

I traveled quite away to try their popular chicharon with guacamole. First off, there's not a plate on the menu that has those items together. You have to order them separately. I ordered 1/2 a pound of chicharon, 1/2 a pound of guacamole, and 1/2 a pond of salsa de molcajete. The chicharon came out cold, tough, and chewy in a plastic bag. The guacamole was nothing special and the salsa was watered down. This place is not well catered for indoor dining as well. I asked for utensils, and the lady went to the back and brought me a fork and spoon and gave me three paper towels from a roll of paper she had under the front counter. This place is off a main street so there's very limited street parking in the front otherwise parking is in the back and easy to miss. They also charged me a $1 fee to use a credit card. I was just overly dissatisfied. Save the drive it's not...

I stop by for the first time and I purchased carnitas, chicharrones, and guacamole. The carnitas were good, the chicharrones were very hard and had a burnt taste. I ended up throwing them away. I didn't care for the guacamole, it had a very strong cilantro taste. As we drove away I was looking at my receipt when I noticed that she charged me twice for the carnitas. The weird part was that it said carnitas $14.47 and right under it it said hot food $14.47. Why did she ring it up as two different names? When I went back she apologized and said that it must of accidentally scanned twice. But again, why would it show as two different names on the receipt? She refunded my money but somehow I feel that it was a scam and not an accident. In the reviews I see that I am not the only one this has happened to. I won't be coming back...

This place is my new favorite spot. I love Mexican food and I drove 20 minutes just to get their carnitas and chicharron. Found them on Instagram and decided to get food for my cheat day over there. Best decision ever! Been there twice and I tried fried plantain, chicharron in salsa verde, regular crunchy chicharron, chicharron norteno, carnitas, birria. Tried also their molcajete and tomatillo salsa. Everything was just unbelievable, so good and fresh. Their staff is pretty nice, I don't fully speak Spanish but I did my best lol! Those guys took couple minutes to chat with me when I told them I'm Italian...they were super nice! I'm telling to all my friends about this place, I can't wait to go...