El Nopalito

Wanted to check this place out. They have hours posted as closing at 8 pm.
Lights are out. No Bueno

I’m here now and this place is beyond disgusting! The server is so rude and the meat is covered in grease! Worse service ever!

I have been here before the food is really good, with a convenient location just walking distance from my home. However, when I arrived today the hostess was rude and I waited 40 minutes and I still had not been served, for no apparent reason. I asked to cancel my order and the hostess simply stated «okay» which makes me believe the prolonged wait time may have been done purposely. I will never visit this place again.

Came to this restaurant a few months ago for the first time me and my cousin were eating there I ordered 5 pastor tacos. Overall pretty good but they didn’t give me red and green salsa only the chip salsa that you get when you’re waiting for your actual food to arrive. Anyway I told my wife about the place so we ended up getting it but pick up this time I got the same thing my wife got a burrito this time my tacos had almost no meat compared to the first time where they were packed and my wife’s burrito was so skinny it was pathetic my advice is to just eat at the place avoid takeout.

Whenever we are in Phoenix to visit relatives we must stop in, usually on our way north from the airport. The neighborhood holds childhood memories for us. Disclaimer: We go to restaurants for the food, not the décor. I’ve tried a number of different things here over the years and never been disappointed (love the sopes), and it’s clean and very welcoming. Everything tastes fresh and homemade with love.

Really good 99 cent street size tacos. The chicken nachos were amazing! Cannot wait to go back :)

Tacos were tasty, but very small. I’m used to LA tacos, where 3 tacos is a decent meal so we ordered 15 tacos for 5 people assuming that would we be enough. But 2 bites and the taco is gone. We would need to have ordered 25 – 30. Not the best value.

I’ve eaten here several times and am overdue on writing a review. GREAT tacos but all the food I’ve had here is delicious.
It looks like a little hole in the wall but you’ll be happy to dive in

This is fantastic! Very simple, great recipes and wonderful. You’ll swear you are in old Mexico. Ceviche and small tacos was great!

Who wouldn’t want to try a restaurant that has been designated Best of Phoenix for tacos by the Phoenix New Times, with tacos that cost only 99 cents each? I came to this small restaurant one mid-​afternoon to sample four of their taco offerings: pastor, asada, longanisa, and carnitas. A complimentary small basket of tortilla chips and two bowls of salsa (red and green) preceded my sampling, and these were pretty generic. The tacos were tasty but a bit on the dry side, except for the moist carnitas. I washed these down with iced horchata; it was mild and pleasant. Not spectacular, but not a bad meal either, and all for only $ 6.50. I’d definitely come here again if I’m in a taco mood and find myself in the area.

Incredibly disappointed in this place. After a few recommendations, we decided to try it for take out. We wanted a good variety of foods, so we ordered cheese enmoladas, a gordita, a chile relleno combo, a pastor burrito combo, chilaquiles verdes and a pambazo. All of this food for us to share and the best part of it was the salsa, which they happened to charge us for.
The cheese enmoladas were stuffed with a dry, flavorless shredded chicken. The gordita wasn’t too horrible, but was definitely understuffed. The chile relleno seemed as if it was stuffed a few days prior. The cheese had a brownish color and was slimy with a gritty texture when rubbed between the fingers. The pastor burrito was very small, understuffed and was served on a cold tortilla. The tortilla was actually still ice cold on the bottom of the burrito by the time we got home, so the filling must have not been very hot either.
Chilaquiles verdes were a complete joke. It was seriously a handful of chips, a small spoonful of green salsa and a tiny sprinkling of cheese. It did come with some sort of a pollo asado on top, which is unique and it was flavorful, but it was very old and dry. It is served with just beans and some iceberg lettuce, but for $ 8, this is no bueno. Something also caused the bottom of the container to melt, so I had to transfer it to another plate, but I still found pieces of styrofoam in my food. The pambazo was flavorful and pretty decent. The filling (chorizo and potatoes) had some sort of a bitterness to it. I think maybe the potatoes or chorizo were burnt, but it was one of the better dishes. The combos were also served with rice and beans. The rice was old and hard. I’m certain that it had been out the entire day. The beans served on all of our dishes were entirely inedible. They had a really funky sour taste, so they were either spoiled or just plain bad. Either way, discarded all of them. The salsa that we were given and charged for was really great! It was a red salsa and tasted like it was homemade.
We did order 30 minutes prior to closing, so we figured that a lot of the issues were due to the late order, but the food was really unacceptable. If they didn’t have quality food to serve or it was ready to be thrown out, just tell us that you’re not longer taking orders. It really sucks to pay for something and then have to discard at least a ¹⁄₃ of it. After all of this, we would still try El Nopalito again because of people’s recommendations, but only if someone else was paying. Not happy.

Excellent tacos. Tacos here are small but only .99 $ so try a bunch. Service is super friendly and fast.

I eat here 2 – 3 times a week. Been coming here since I was 13. Favorite place for tacos

I love Mexico City, and good tacos are hard to come by here in the states. The al pastor was really good, and I will definitely be coming back for the tacos!
They had some of the best horchata I’ve had in Phoenix, make sure you try it. I ordered the huarache, but was not too impressed. It was a little bland for being a specialty item. If you’ve ever eaten a huarache in DF, you might be disappointed in that dish. Overall, this place was great and I will be back again.

Green burrito enchilada style yum, intriguing flaver but delicious, will be returning in spite of tacky plastic plates and bland chips.

Good place for lunch. The street tacos are a buck each and there are several different types of meat. El pastor and carnitas are delicious. Apparently there are a few different cooks and when you get the grilled tortillas, you are in for some good food.

I stopped in here during a lunch break at a nearby work conference. It was 10am and I was jonesing for a breakfast burrito. The atmosphere is nothing fancy but it was clean. The lady at the counter was very nice. I ordered a breakfast burrito without meat. It took a little longer than I thought it would, but they make everything super fresh. The potatoes in the burrito tasted freshly cut. The burrito itself was scrumptious and hit the spot, even though it was just a little greasy. If I lived closer I would definitely return for a hangover burrito. ;)

I thought the food was pretty darn good, especially for the price.
I got 3 tacos (cabeza, al pastor y adobada) and a carne asada sope. Wife got something very similar. All that plus a beer for $ 16.
The waitress was really nice, I mean service wasn’t 5 stars but didn’t expect it to be when you pull up to this joint. Nothing to complain about except the smelly rags they used to wipe the tables next to us.

I’ve been to Nopalito several times. The food is okay. The price on the burritos went up a buck to 4.99 for lunch specials. They have cleaned up the look of the place a bit from when I first started going. They have a couple flat screens and decent looking paint on the walls. Some of the times I’ve went the food wasn’t fresh and tasted like it had been recooked a couple times. Still for a buck a taco it is not bad but does leave some to be desired with the quality.
I will probably be back again sometime but not anytime soon. I hope the quality gets better and fresher.

While my friends were in Rocky Point for spring break (yes, this still happens after college), me and my man were having some serious taco stand cravings. There’s this place I have been meaning to try forever, I tell him. As soon as I said «Hole in the wall mex joint» he was enthusiastically driving in their direction. As soon as we stepped in and we were the only gringos in there, I knew we were in for a treat. The senoras who were working were so sweet to us, brought us out the complimentary chips and salsa, and guided us on what tacos were the best. We each got 3 different ones to try, and my favorite that day was the cabeza (who would have thought!). After an order of guac, 2 drinks, I was almost embarrassed that the bill was so cheap — like I was getting away with some kind of crime by not paying more. It was more than reasonable.
The man was so impressed that he went back the following weekend to surprise me with takeout breakfast in bed. The senoras recognized him and made him feel so welcome and special. On weekends, they serve this lamb soup, in fact I saw a few familias feasting on the soup the prior weekend, and she sat him down and gave him a hefty sampling complete with all the fixings on the side, along with chips and salsa while he waited for his takeout order. He brought me chilaquiles which were awesome, and he had a breakfast burrito which was not as fat as your typical drive by, but I thought that the ingredients tasted fresher. Either way, this has become a place in the rotation for sure.