Los Grullenses — Restaurant in Salinas

Amazing tacos. This is one of those little shops that cares way more about the quality of the food over how Instagram worthy their decor is and that's what makes it so good. Staff is friendly, speak English and Spanish so if you don't speak the language you can still order, don't worry. They even have the bottled coke from Mexico (the drink, calm down) which is way better than the American recipe. It gets busy here but they turn out the orders within minutes so if you see a line, don't move on, you'll get your food pretty quick regardless. Some could argue that the environment isn't very 'high end' and the eating area justifies 4 stars but this place knows what it is, and what it isn't. They're there to make amazing food, plain and simple, and for that I...

The wife stumbled on to this place by chance and I thought we were going to get another so-so meal, and man were we in for a NICE surprise! The staff were all very nice and the atmosphere, though one cannot dine-in cause of covid yet, you may enjoy a beer while you wait and that's about how long the wait is coincidentally. I enjoyed the fish burrito and the wife enjoyed the alpastor burrito. We loved them so much we went there again to buy more for the road. I tried the pascado (fish) nachos and she got the alpastor tacos with rice and beans on the side. Everything was amazing. Seasoned rice and beans done RIGHT! PLEASE VISIT THIS PLACE you...

It’s been a really long time since I had amazing tacos - I came here cause someone recommended it while attending a conference in Monterey. It was well worth the trip to come and have the taco plate with 2 carne asada and 2 al pastor. The tacos were perfect , Just the right amount of fat, seasoning , love the pickled carrots and the tortillas were not home at least I don’t think they were but damn where they good. The tortillas held up to the meat well and the heat was Flirtatious right amount to make your nose run a little bit but not too much definitely will not be...