Taqueria Los Gallos

Make sure you have cash to come here. I typically get steak tacos and a side of beans and have never been displeased. Is it my favorite Mexican place in the area meh not really but always satisfying.

Cash only, bummer. But I’m more of a taco person but every time I come here I get a steak burrito. Sober or drunk I’m satisfied.

I live close to this place, however I’ve been avoiding it for some time after getting weird meat here and the fact that they usually don’t get my order right, but my boyfriend wanted to stop here and get a quick snack. Normally I dine in so at least when they get my order wrong, I can get it fixed immediately. Before this time, my record of my burrito being messed up was 2 times in a row — meaning they finally got it right on the third time. My recent carry-​out experience is what will stop me from EVER coming back. I ordered a vegetarian burrito — NO MEAT, but specifically stating exactly what I wanted on the burrito so that there is no confusion with what should go on it. I get home, cut the burrito open — there’s steak on it. This is common in Mexican joints for me — they all seem to think steak automatically comes on the burrito. I’m pissed, but I go back. I tell them about the mess up and specifically state what I want on the burrito (beans, rice, cheese, and sour cream — NOTHING else). I get home, the burrito is huge. Usually when my burrito is this big, I know something isn’t right, given that I only get 4 ingredients. I cut it open, and literally half of the burrito is filled with avocado. How is this even possible? I call and tell them that it was messed up again, but that I’m not coming back today, I already came there two times. She told me I could come in within 24 hours to get a new burrito. I told her I’m not coming back within 24 hours, and she agreed to a week. I come back in a week later to get my burrito — finally someone is apologetic towards me — no one the weekend before was, but this cashier was really nice so I had a good feeling that it would be right this time. Good thing I didn’t sit down and actually plan to EAT my burrito, because once again, I got home, cut into it, and it was filled with steak. This place is a joke. I didn’t bother to call them again, but will never return.

I always get the Tortas and Jamaica and they are always good. My daughter always gets the burrito and a side of rice…

Really poor experience here, the only thing that was okay was the waiting staff as they got me what I wanted as soon as they could. The food on the other hand took way too long, ordered 4 tacos and normally any other place I’ve been to that takes 5 – 7 minutes at best, I was waiting for a good 15 minutes. The quality of the ingredients was also really poor, nothing tasted fresh not even the pico de gallo which is normally something I get because I like the taste of fresh tomato and all that good stuff. The sauce wasn’t very hot and very watery and the corn tortillas tasted like they were stale. Then to top it all off, ended up somehow being 16 bucks for the meal. Do not recommend this place to anyone that likes decent Mexican food, this place does not serve it.

This place makes me sick to my stomach, irresponsible co owners. reason I come back to this place is because its around the corner and they have their grandfather/​father (owner of gallos on archer and sacramento and 26^th st as well) recipe for 3 dishes they are really known for its redicolous how we call to make an order expect to get there and hope its done sooner, and not surprisingly they forgot to put the order in, never give us close to the same amount of orders its always diffrente like they have no process there, they have nothing but bad reviews and why are they still in business easy because we still consume from this place thats why they are sti in bussiness but I feel bad for some of their employees who need the job but ive really had it with this outfit I hope another restaurant comes around, as far as prices goes they seem a little higher then others but as long we keel paying want they expect us to pay they will continue to increase and keep prices higher. I rwally feel bad for the original owners of the originall gallos they are humble and really good folks they always made sure customer satisfaction was met unfortunely this young «entrepreneurs» put a bad taste and a bad name for this restaurant, I hope we can get a PACOS TACOS in garfield ridge we would never leave that place really good tacos and huge if you guys really want to try them their is one on 60 the and pulaski the closest one to garfield ridge them asada tscos are huge and delicious..

I’ve been buying their Menudo for years. Just stopped in last Thursday to try their Carne en su jugo, I liked that too. We shared a Carne asada, and that was well prepared.
Service was great.
We’ll be back.

Honestly. There’s nothing good about this place but carne end su Hugo. Everything else is either too salty or just has no flavor. These guys def dug a whole in my wallet. Too expensive for not so good food.

Their carne en su jugo was ok. I don’t see it on the menu much at Mexican restaurants, and i saw it won some kind of award here so decided to try it to compare to my mom’s. It must be a different version of the dish because it was nothing like my mom’s. It was still ok though. My son enjoyed his small ceviche tostada for $ 6 — i thought it would include at least 2 tostadas since it was a dish, not an appetizer. Make sure you order more than one if you’re hungry. The al pastor burrito was good, as was the apache dinner. I didn’t like that they forgot my dad’s order completely. It didn’t occur to the waiter that an order was missing. He tried saying nothing else was ordered, as if we had made a mistake and had not ordered anything else, but i heard my dad order and as a waiter, wouldn’t you question why there’s a guy sitting there not eating while the rest in the family was?
They also charge extra for chips and salsa and extra for the pickled carrots… never heard of that.

1 star for courteous service, but really is it nice to serve poorly prepared foods?
1= star for extensive menu but really is good to not prepare and present foods well? My chilles rellenos were burnt beyond recognition, but maybe stupid customer will not notice if we cover it in bad sauce with bad name. But I DID! bc I requested my chille ‘dry’ as in NOT SMOTHERED! so that I MAY view and inspect my foods before I go in. I will NOT be returning to this bad restaurant.

Great casual restaurant. My boyfriend took me here to get a Carne en su Juego for lunch. He had been eating at the 26^th Street location since he was a kid. We both ordered Carne en su Juego, and it was good. My boyfriend stated that the portion size is smaller than in the past. I thought it was a good size for me. It was a solid lunch. It is cash only

yes i gave these guys a few chances after telling them that their tortas which cost $ 5 plus had hard breaded meat that they didn’t use the day before or more. Every time i call my order is wrong, one item would be missing. the limes are always dry and hard and you can barely get any juice out of it, now i love lime with mexican food and it pisses me off so bad that i would just go to the groceries to get limes. And yes their water is powder. Their carne asada would have hard pieces of fat every so often. overly over price.

Ordered take out. Unfortunately we wound up throwing it out. The meat was bland and greasy. The salsa seemed more like water and the preparation was sloppy. Next time ill drive to the 26^th st location.

Of all of the tacos joints on Archer Avenue — I had to stumble into this over-​priced approximation of Jimmy Johns — Jimmy Juans? The torta ($ 5.20) was a lettuce sandwich on soggy bread with some gamy meat and an odd slice of unidentifiable white cheese. (I think it was cheese.) (To be fair Jimmy Johns actually uses good bread on their lettuce sandwiches.)
There was nothing about the sandwich that even suggested finishing it. I NEVER throw food away. Well I guess I do now. This was nearly inedible.
The cup of arroz ($ 1.75) was flavorless. The color was right — but there was zero flavor. I could have eating Styrofoam with hot sauce and not known the difference. Wait a minute — is there a UPS store near this joint?
The ultimate transgression is they charge 50 cents for a minute ramekin of something that approximates carrots. Anyone who goes to taquerias expects that treasured foil packet with slices of carrot and jalapeño and onion. This is part of the contract we enter into when I walk into your puerta.
Los Gallos charges an extra 50 cents for this carroty/​peppery cole slaw that did nothing to help the awful sandwich.
The Jamaica (Hibiscus drink) was $ 3.80 for a large and it was powdered Jamaica drink. This was not jugo de Jamaica. I may be Italian, but I know powdered drinks from the real McCoy. This was just sweet, cold, burgundy water.
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool me — and I guess these gallos did just that because I dropped my hard earned money in their cash register. I can promise that will never happen again — EVER.

I keep giving this place one more chance. One more chance. One more chance.
Although everything that I have had here is palatable, I am never satisfied. My last meal was a simple gringo order… a steak burrito with everything. Ordering carry out does change the quality of what you are eating, so I always factor that in. FYI, Jalapenos are an extra charge and not a condiment… So upon arriving home, I dived right in to my burrito. Hungry I was… After about three or four bites I made my mind up. It was just okay. There are far too many Mexican restaurants nearby to just make nice with this one. A few bites had some fatty meat that was not trimmed away. He gone!

So… Tried this place 2x. One was a year ago and paid with cash (will get to this later) Ordered a taco, burrito and guac. I was only the second customer in there and it took FOREVER to get my order. Food is only «meh» and the Guac left alot to be desired.
Was gonna try them again last week cuz a burrito craving hit me as soon as I was near them. Went in and ordered. Then when I handed them my debit card, they said they only take cash — huh? spluh? bwuh… 21^st century and all +Restaurant + business in general = DEBIT/​CERDIT ACCEPTANCE right?.. well…here’s their SCAM.
Lady proceeds to tell me no problem that theres an ATM in the hall (how convienient), so me being a FULLWAY intelligent person (never half way) I asked her how much the service fee is… oh she knew ASAP and said $ 3…$ 3.00??? Holy crap! No wonder they dont take debit… its a scam to split the service fee with the ATM vendor! LOL!
I told her to cancel my order. I SO hope they started cooking my food before I cancelled it.
So, in closing, if you are one of the few remaining humans to pay with cash AND want mediocore food then have at it.

When this place first opened, it was EXCELLENT. The food was fresh, the interior was spotless, the servers were friendly and attentive. Since then, the prices have risen astronomically and the workers have been replaced with some that speak little to no English. Ordering over the phone is an impossibility; they answer in Spanish, and the Spanglish you get from there makes it an ordeal to convey what you like. This isn’t «authentic»; they simply can’t speak English. Only in the United States is that tolerated; it’s insulting and they should be embarrassed. Standards like the pickled vegetables on the table have been taken away. If you want more than ONE small plastic cup of these for your take out order, they charge you 50 cents EACH. The overhead menu is now a mish-​mosh of glued or taped on letters and numbers as they have raised prices on everything so many times.
Also, they don’t take credit cards and you can bet your a** the one tiny television they have won’t play anything in English.
Los Gallos was wonderful when it opened and now it’s a total wreck. Do yourself and the world a favor and help them go out of business by not patronizing this joint.

Ok. I’ve been coming to Los Gallos for years. This location and the one on 26^th. For those of you that dont know, this place is veeeerrrrry popular in the Mexican community for their house specialty CARNE EN SU JUGO!!! YES!!! They have the absolute best! Ive been here with 5 or 6 of my family members and we all order the CARNE EN SU JUGO. Thats what this place is known for. The rest of the food??? Who knows. I dont recall ever having anything else. DONT CARE!!! Give me my CARNE EN SU JUGO ANYTIME!!! I would rate it 5 STARS for that simple fact EXCEPT that they could do a better job of giving more of it. For the price Im sure I could get more somewhere else. BUT NOT AS GOOD AS LOS GALLOS!!!

Same horrible service, now with higher prices!
I’m done. This place is literally in my front yard and I will be driving to Summit to get my burrito fix from now on. They often mess up orders and are painfully slow if there are more than 2 people in the place. Today i go in to see that they have raised prices AND are now charging for salsa and carrots. I should have known better when I was in there and the gas company came in to disconnect service. Used to be good, now not so much.

**Take-​out only review of this location**
Awesome late night, breakfast… anything really! They have amazing Carne en Su Jugo which is a Mexican soup made from steak, bacon, beans, sofrito and amazingness! =] They also have really good tortas and tacos. I tried the Milanesa and a Taco de Tripitas (crunchy). And both were amazing!
This is definitely a place to try if you are in the area and looking for some well priced, delicious and authentic Mexican food! =]