Taqueria Vallarta

Always great food here! Try their caldo de res, after 10 am daily cooked to perfection, like menudo? Its spiced to perfection! Add some of their green hot sauce, does not get any better than this!

Awesome Mexican food and great service. Always get my #16 chicken fajita plate with a Sweet Tea. Always get 4 Flour tortillas. By far one of the best Mexican restaurants in San Antonio.

La comida suele estar buena. Me gustan mucho los nachos. Las parrillada es muy buena también. Lo único de este lugar es que sales oliendo a comida muy fuerte. No se si su sistema de ventilación en la cocina está funcionando bien. Dependiendo la hora que vayas, hay tortillas de maíz hechas aquí. Si ya se acabaron, te dan como los demás lugares, del paquete. Suele estar bien limpio el local. Los baños igual.

Awesome fajita tacos, haven’t tried much else on the menu, but they have a unique marinade for their meat which I find to be a delight, and it keeps bringing me back.

I come here for tacos in the mornings when I get off work. Awesome place n drive thru is always stress free,…we’ll sometimes haha!

I used to go to this place all the time. It’s very affordable and the food is delicious but the last time I went, I found a hair in my food. I complained and was still asked to pay the full price.

This restaurant has quite an extensive menu for a taqueria, offering different seafood plates such as shrimp caldo, shrimp with fajitas, ceviche, fried fish and jumbo shrimp, etc. I really enjoy the food here. Whether you’re looking to eat some simple Mexican dishes, like tacos or enchiladas, or change it up by eating Mexican seafood, this place definitely offers something for everyone.

Needs better staff but food is good. My favorite Carne Asada Plate #7, excellent piece of meat ! Good Coffe and sweet bread.

A local axiom here in SA is that any place that has Taqueria in the title will be very good. Whether it is Taqueria Vallarta, Arandas, Jalisco, Guadalajara, or any other province of our neighbors to the south, we can rest assured that the food will be great. The only problem is going often enough to sample all of the items on the extensive menus that specialize in Mexican dishes with a hint of Tex-​Mex thrown in for good measure. For those of you from out of town the difference between Tex-​Mex and Mexican is a flour tortilla rather than corn and twice as much food than you actually need to eat.
On this occasion I went in the drive thru because I was pressed for time so I stuck to things I know and kept it simple. Besides when I pulled up to the window I was entertained by the rooster shanty town in the yard of the house next door. I’m glad I didn’t order the chicken! Simple maybe but simply done, not at all? I wonder if these Taqueria places that started popping up twenty years ago started out by each hiring an old local Mexican grandmother to do the cooking or if they just used the knowledge of their food and added a little local flair. Either way they definitely know how to cook.
The tortillas are soft, and fluffy and melt in your mouth good. If any of you aren’t sure if you’ve actually had a homemade flour tortilla than you probably haven’t. Add some bacony beans and sharp cheddar cheese and voila! For act 2 the Carne Guisada or loosely translated meat with gravy the cornerstone of every San Antonio male’s culinary temple. Now this dish sometimes gets served as chewy strips of beef with an over peppered, gelatinous gravy that can be as hard to stomach as it is to look at.
(Just a quick cooking lesson– Cheap cuts of meat require three things– braising liquid, low heat, and time.)
Taqueria Vallarta serves up thick chunks of fall apart tender beef in a, heavy on the chili powder, gravy.
My mom used to use hamburger meat, oh the horror!
So if you happen to be in the Las Palmas area, perhaps you are visiting a passed relative in the San Fernando Cemetery or paying your Time Warner cable bill or maybe just picking up a piñata from Cupples road, check this place out because another Taqueria joint has proven its weight in caldo! Good stuff.