La Tapatia Taqueria
Houston, TX 77098-3603
Phone: (713) 521-3144
- Price:
- $
- Cross Street:
- Dunlavy Street
- Hours:
- Mon-Fri 8am-3am, Sat-Sun 8am-5am
Editorial Review for La Tapatia Taqueria – by Citysearch Editors
The Scene
A bustling dining room with mustard walls is lit by neon advertising signs. A full bar on the right greets customers, while a fountain adds some soothing trickling. Televisions and a jukebox pick up the pace.
The Food
These kitchens offer perfectly straightforward shrimp tacos: eight to ten small, grilled shrimp, folded into double corn tortillas lined with a bed of sharp white onions and cilantro. The tortas (sandwiches), built on toasted bolillos (small loaves of Mexican bread) are smeared with refried beans and sour cream, and your choice of fried fajita, pork al pastor or chicken breast. Soups are excellent, but enchilada platters and the like are too greasy. Overall, the food is hearty, if a little Spartan, but you can spoon on either of the two good table salsas to add some flavor.
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User Reviews for La Tapatia Taqueria
05/28/2007 Posted by magicreview
For those of you who remember Tacqueria La Jalliance on Montrose fondly and the great times held nightly in this legendary late night mexican food joint...Tacqueria La Tapitia tries to recapture the classic feeling of the former retired establishment replete with the usual $4-5 dollar burrito dinners. If you think this Taqueria (Tapitia) follows in it's footsteps...Please, lend me your ear and let me steer you in other directions! Starting with the salsas, one chile rojo and the other tomatillo both are bland and uninteresting and taste straight out of the prefabbed can. I will allow them a cudo for the chips being hot, but that's where it ends. The chile con queso was melted velveta...nothing else. Seriously, we had to dump masssive amounts of the complemtary chile rojo salas in and still never quite got a respectable version. (If you can't make salsa and or chile con queso then how can you be expected to make the more complicated fare? The only draw I can see for these places is that they are never really crowded and the extensive happy hour 11-11pm. I can see why they offer cut rate prices on alchohol...it's to get you drunk on cheap booze in and effort so you will reall not notice how sub par the food is. (By the way...I tried this route and got stung by the barkeep, we ordered shots of 1800 Tequlia and half of them were not the genuine article...as if true Texans are stupid enough not to know the difference between J Cuervo1800 and Motezuma tequila...hint to the barkeep...they are completely different shades of yellow...you're not fooling anyone.Take the spanish rice...it's plain rice with leftover tomatoes, chicken stock and copious amounts of Egg Shell dye. (For those of you not in the biz...Egg shell dye makes what ever you put it in turn bright yellow. Most un-reputable places use it to fool the rubes that it contains saffron, which of course it doesn't.) Since I'm running out of space ...Save your money for a place that cares.
Pros: Hot chips, not crowded
Cons: High school cafeteria on Mexican day could beat this place/Don't trust the barkeep.
02/25/2007 Posted by luli_brooks
This is a great place to dine in or order out. Take-out food is usually ready in ten minutes or less; service in-house is friendly and fast. The food is pretty authentic Mexican, and I've never had a bad order. This is my top choice in Houston for comfort food or late night dinner!
Pros: great service, great food
Cons: n/a
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