Rico’s Elotes El Tocallo Taqueria

I don’t buy corn from nowhere but here. Been buying corn from here since 1994. Ive never ate food from here. But I love their corn — with extra sour cream. Lol

My 1^st here had the torta de lengua (cow tongue) didn’t have any flavor, the food was warm temperature,& wasn’t all that. The staff was very friendly.

The food is decent but the service is terrible. The first time I went everything was great but the second time I ordered the same thing and they charged me like five dollars extra and the priced were still the same and the same thing happened to a friend of mine when he went.

The elotes is really tasty and their meat was juicy and seasoned well. The vegetables were fresh and the fruit juice was actually fruit juice. Seriously. Real, recently juiced fruit. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like. $ 18 for two people to eat a little more than they needed to with no complaints.
We had just left the Texas theater and started driving to a restaurant she knew when I spotted a food cart on the corner selling something mexican looking. I’d had a hankering for mexican for the past few days so I asked her what it was. Elotes. I asked what it was and she made a u-​turn. We were just going to the stand to get the elotes, but then we noticed the stand had the same name as the small restaurant in the same parking lot. We decided to try it. As we entered I noticed mexicans were eating there. This place must be legit :)
The inside is two slightly separated and small dining areas with a counter and window for ordering and getting your food from the kitchen. It’s all bar seating with a bar wrapping around the entire interior and stools to sit on. All very basic. I liked it. If I weren’t a shy hermitty person that only speaks english I probably would have talked to all the other people sitting around the edges. Lots of people were talking. Comfortable enough despite it all being open. And it still seemed easy for us to talk amongst ourselves and ignore the other diners. There was room for maybe 11 people to sit. I also had a few drinks at the theater’s bar just minutes before, and was there with someone I’m newly in love with, so who knows what it was actually like. I know it smelled good in there though.
My girlfriend speaks spanish and did all the ordering. I saw the word gordita on the menu and said I wanted two of those. She also ordered us each a fruit drink of some sort and the «elotes”(delicious corn in a cup thing with cheese, sour cream, chilis, seasoning, i think there was feta in there, butter?, …).
While we were waiting for the food I tasted each drink and was really surprised to taste actual fruit juice. We got a cantaloupe juice and a watermelon juice. It tasted like they roughly juiced the raw fresh fruit and added a bit of sugar. Next time i’ll ask for just the juice with no sugar. I always just order water at restaurants because I don’t drink soda so it was a nice surprise to get a delicious drink that’s not bad for you.
They didn’t look like any gorditas I ever had before. Turns out you can get all kinds of toppings like cheese, onions, cilantro, etc… but I can’t read spanish and just said I want the gorditas. So mine were plain. They were delicious. There were slightly more delicious with the salsas. And even more delicious when eaten with the elotes. What I got was simple. Gorditas (one chicken, one beef), salsas, salad and the elotes. It was all done well and fresh.
She got a burrito of some sort and said it was really good.
I’d eat here again.
Also if you drive around to the front of the restaurant and drive along the side of it back towards what seems like the parking lot for it. Don’t. When you get back there there’s no parking and it looks like you can just drive into the parking lot next door. And you can. It’s just that the restaurant’s pavement is 4−5» higher than that of the parking lot next door, but there’s no divider. It’s not apparent at night that there’s a drop off, so off we went. The front end scraping the ground after the drop off sounded terrible. So either park in the lot next to the place and walk over or park right in front of it.
I ate at
a few days before the taqueria and it was wonderful. Everything was just great. Fancy wine tasting, delicious appetizers, filet mignon fajitas, mole, intoxicating dessert. Just amazing.
I was almost as happy leaving this little taco shack and it was like ¹⁄₆^th the price. I’d come here a lot more often too. Cheaper, faster and I don’t have to get dressed all fancy if I don’t wanna. If only they had mole. They probably do, I just couldn’t read the sign.