I don't know why good tacos are so hard to find in O.C. Real Tacoz does a lot to continue this trend. Tacos are small, and the meat is mostly flavorless. I say "mostly" flavorless, because the pork/carnitas does have some flavor. Real Tacoz pork tastes like cat food. No joke, no exaggeration. I've tried it a few times to make sure I wasn't imagining something, or having a bad day, or perhaps Real Tacoz was having a bad pork-day. The pork has remained consistently cat-food like, taste-wise. The other meat is not good. Their meat isn't terrible (other than the pork), it just isn't good. It's slightly worse than mediocre. Burritos are similarly flawed meat-wise, but bring their own whole dynamic to this faux-Mexican hole-in-the-wall. Real Tacoz choice of ingredient combination for their burritos is not only quixotic, but the flavor combinations just don't work, culinarily, or taste-bud wise. It's pretty hard to not be able to figure out what should be put into a burrito, but remarkably, Real Tacoz has figured out how to screw up even this simple task for their burrito ingredients. Their bean burritos is its own special kind of misery. The portion size isn't bad, but the burrito is expensive for a bean burrito. The beans are runny, and the tortilla is so insubstantial, that the burrito false apart right around the 5 minute mark. Any attempt to consume the burrito after 5 minutes, and will have a burrito spilling its insides all over wherever you are. If you're in a car, expect burrito ingredients all over your clothes, seat, center console, floor mats, gear shift, and any passengers. Try to nibble it just a little after 10 minutes have passed, and you'll exp0erience a special kind eating misery that'll make you regret needing to eat food of any kind. I never thought I'd have such a negative burrito problem as I've had with Real Tacoz bean burrito, but there you go.
I know what it takes to operate a Mexican fast food restaurant. I regularly patronize such establishments. I also have some experience with Mexican fast food restaurants from the inside. I've worked as a cook, preparer, cashier, and manager of several different Mexican fast food restaurants. Real Tacoz is failing on multiple levels. Running such a restaurant isn't rocket surgery/brain science. It is a series of fairly simple, readily defined steps, techniques, objectives, informed if not by experience, then by simple training. If Mexican fast food chains can readily train distracted teenaged employees in the finer art of successfully running those chain restaurants, then it should be child's play for an adult to operate a single restaurant. Real Tacoz represents that rare combination of small-scale Mexican-restaurant recipe, food preparation, and managerial failure.
On the plus side, Real Tacoz cashiers have always been a delight to interface with. I've been to Real Tacoz probably a dozen or two times (it's the only fast food restaurant in this part of town), and without exception, the cashiers have always offered plenty of good cheer, smiles, and an eagerness to serve any way they can, within reason. The hired help is the bright spot, a very bright spot, in the otherwise dreary and unpleasant experience that is dining at Real Tacoz (or getting it to go).
Parking is free, plentiful, and readily available. I recommend, however, that you never us it, and just pass right on by, unless you're so hungry cannibalism seems appealing. In that case, Real Tacoz is superior to consuming your fellow man or woman. Past that, I recommend you learn to live with whatever hunger you imagine Real Tacoz might alleviate.
Parking: Lots of free parking.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 5
Miguel Figueroa
Worst place
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2
Jason Osterwald
Service was good. Tacos are okay. Tried the Pastor, asada, and carnitas. Pastor was meh, asada was ok, and carnitas was the best.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
Mandy Lam
So dang delicious. Love their tiny tacos. A socal staple. Hit em up for taco Tuesday!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Matthew Christiani
Must try the carnitas, especially on top of a nachos. Bring another person to help you finish.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Carnitas
Victoria
Insanely expensive. I spent $20 on a simple chicken burrito (without guac) and chips and salsa. The quality of the food has gone downhill over the past year. Last time i got nachos that were basically all beans and completely soggy. I probably should have stopped spending my money here after that but i keep giving them a chance and they fall short every time.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
J R
Big ol' carnitas burrito, Delish!Big ol' Root beer cuz I don't drink and one free refill, Awesome!(Only one free refill....?Baah!! I didn't want the diabetus anyway, Pfft!)Oh and you have to wait until the girl at the counter walks away to tip because the jar is smack dab in the middle of the window. Ugh, I might have to explain . . .?
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Yaret Casillas
We always order through the drive thru. We wait for sometime, since people walk up to the window. They take care of walk up than the drive up. Their speaker to order needs to be updated. They can never hear my order. Food is good. I always ger carnitas bowl and the carnitas quesadilla. Food preparation take a long time but the food is good.
Kid-friendliness: Need to have kids meals simple rice and chicken for kids. I share my bowl with my child.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Carnitas
Thela Navé
They ask for tips but they clearly don't deserve it as they dont provide a positive service greeting, nor do they provide an outstanding food rating or anything that applies when asking for a TIP. They close their drive thru 30 minutes before actual closing and when you order from the window they lock it and treat you like a criminal. Don't go here. Plenty of other taco places in Yorba Linda aPlacentia. Let this gross place close.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Taylor LaNave
They ask for tips but they clearly don't deserve it as they dont provide a positive service greeting, nor do they provide an outstanding food rating or anything that applies when asking for a TIP. They close their drive thru 30 minutes before actual closing and when you order from the window they lock it and treat you like a criminal. Don't go here. Plenty of other taco places in Yorba Linda aPlacentia. Let this gross place close.
Small Mexican restaurant located in a plaza off La Palma. They don't offer any inside seating but have a patio with some seating and a drive-thru!Underwhelming to be honest. Service was super slow and I thought the food was mediocre especially for the price. Wish their menu would have elaborated on what is included in a standard burrito as well. The convenience of a drive-thru gets them extra points in my book, but I wasn't impressed.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 2
Taylor W
Soggy tacos, and awful staff. Don't go here. They put 5 tacos in 1 box. Lazy managers and owners.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Tyla lanaev
They ask for tips but they clearly don't deserve it as they dont provide a positive service greeting, nor do they provide an outstanding food rating or anything that applies when asking for a TIP. They close their drive thru 30 minutes before actual closing and when you order from the window they lock it and treat you like a criminal. Don't go here. Plenty of other taco places in Yorba Linda aPlacentia. Let this gross place close.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
TW
This place is a disgusting hole. Don't buy food from here as it's not sanitary.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Dave
Keep it simple and get their basic street tacos. Reminds me of tacos off a taco truck but the house habanero salsa takes it to another level. You're not going to find better tacos in the yorba linda/anaheim hills area
I don't know why good tacos are so hard to find in O.C. Real Tacoz does a lot to continue this trend. Tacos are small, and the meat is mostly flavorless. I say "mostly" flavorless, because the pork/carnitas does have some flavor. Real Tacoz pork tastes like cat food. No joke, no exaggeration. I've tried it a few times to make sure I wasn't imagining something, or having a bad day, or perhaps Real Tacoz was having a bad pork-day. The pork has remained consistently cat-food like, taste-wise. The other meat is not good. Their meat isn't terrible (other than the pork), it just isn't good. It's slightly worse than mediocre. Burritos are similarly flawed meat-wise, but bring their own whole dynamic to this faux-Mexican hole-in-the-wall. Real Tacoz choice of ingredient combination for their burritos is not only quixotic, but the flavor combinations just don't work, culinarily, or taste-bud wise. It's pretty hard to not be able to figure out what should be put into a burrito, but remarkably, Real Tacoz has figured out how to screw up even this simple task for their burrito ingredients. Their bean burritos is its own special kind of misery. The portion size isn't bad, but the burrito is expensive for a bean burrito. The beans are runny, and the tortilla is so insubstantial, that the burrito false apart right around the 5 minute mark. Any attempt to consume the burrito after 5 minutes, and will have a burrito spilling its insides all over wherever you are. If you're in a car, expect burrito ingredients all over your clothes, seat, center console, floor mats, gear shift, and any passengers. Try to nibble it just a little after 10 minutes have passed, and you'll exp0erience a special kind eating misery that'll make you regret needing to eat food of any kind. I never thought I'd have such a negative burrito problem as I've had with Real Tacoz bean burrito, but there you go.
I know what it takes to operate a Mexican fast food restaurant. I regularly patronize such establishments. I also have some experience with Mexican fast food restaurants from the inside. I've worked as a cook, preparer, cashier, and manager of several different Mexican fast food restaurants. Real Tacoz is failing on multiple levels. Running such a restaurant isn't rocket surgery/brain science. It is a series of fairly simple, readily defined steps, techniques, objectives, informed if not by experience, then by simple training. If Mexican fast food chains can readily train distracted teenaged employees in the finer art of successfully running those chain restaurants, then it should be child's play for an adult to operate a single restaurant. Real Tacoz represents that rare combination of small-scale Mexican-restaurant recipe, food preparation, and managerial failure.
On the plus side, Real Tacoz cashiers have always been a delight to interface with. I've been to Real Tacoz probably a dozen or two times (it's the only fast food restaurant in this part of town), and without exception, the cashiers have always offered plenty of good cheer, smiles, and an eagerness to serve any way they can, within reason. The hired help is the bright spot, a very bright spot, in the otherwise dreary and unpleasant experience that is dining at Real Tacoz (or getting it to go).
Parking is free, plentiful, and readily available. I recommend, however, that you never us it, and just pass right on by, unless you're so hungry cannibalism seems appealing. In that case, Real Tacoz is superior to consuming your fellow man or woman. Past that, I recommend you learn to live with whatever hunger you imagine Real Tacoz might alleviate.
Parking: Lots of free parking.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 5
Worst place
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2
Service was good. Tacos are okay. Tried the Pastor, asada, and carnitas. Pastor was meh, asada was ok, and carnitas was the best.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
So dang delicious. Love their tiny tacos. A socal staple. Hit em up for taco Tuesday!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Must try the carnitas, especially on top of a nachos. Bring another person to help you finish.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Carnitas
Insanely expensive. I spent $20 on a simple chicken burrito (without guac) and chips and salsa. The quality of the food has gone downhill over the past year. Last time i got nachos that were basically all beans and completely soggy. I probably should have stopped spending my money here after that but i keep giving them a chance and they fall short every time.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Big ol' carnitas burrito, Delish!Big ol' Root beer cuz I don't drink and one free refill, Awesome!(Only one free refill....?Baah!! I didn't want the diabetus anyway, Pfft!)Oh and you have to wait until the girl at the counter walks away to tip because the jar is smack dab in the middle of the window. Ugh, I might have to explain . . .?
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
We always order through the drive thru. We wait for sometime, since people walk up to the window. They take care of walk up than the drive up. Their speaker to order needs to be updated. They can never hear my order. Food is good. I always ger carnitas bowl and the carnitas quesadilla. Food preparation take a long time but the food is good.
Kid-friendliness: Need to have kids meals simple rice and chicken for kids. I share my bowl with my child.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Carnitas
They ask for tips but they clearly don't deserve it as they dont provide a positive service greeting, nor do they provide an outstanding food rating or anything that applies when asking for a TIP. They close their drive thru 30 minutes before actual closing and when you order from the window they lock it and treat you like a criminal. Don't go here. Plenty of other taco places in Yorba Linda aPlacentia. Let this gross place close.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
They ask for tips but they clearly don't deserve it as they dont provide a positive service greeting, nor do they provide an outstanding food rating or anything that applies when asking for a TIP. They close their drive thru 30 minutes before actual closing and when you order from the window they lock it and treat you like a criminal. Don't go here. Plenty of other taco places in Yorba Linda aPlacentia. Let this gross place close.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
Small Mexican restaurant located in a plaza off La Palma. They don't offer any inside seating but have a patio with some seating and a drive-thru!Underwhelming to be honest. Service was super slow and I thought the food was mediocre especially for the price. Wish their menu would have elaborated on what is included in a standard burrito as well. The convenience of a drive-thru gets them extra points in my book, but I wasn't impressed.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 2
Soggy tacos, and awful staff. Don't go here. They put 5 tacos in 1 box. Lazy managers and owners.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
They ask for tips but they clearly don't deserve it as they dont provide a positive service greeting, nor do they provide an outstanding food rating or anything that applies when asking for a TIP. They close their drive thru 30 minutes before actual closing and when you order from the window they lock it and treat you like a criminal. Don't go here. Plenty of other taco places in Yorba Linda aPlacentia. Let this gross place close.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
This place is a disgusting hole. Don't buy food from here as it's not sanitary.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Keep it simple and get their basic street tacos. Reminds me of tacos off a taco truck but the house habanero salsa takes it to another level. You're not going to find better tacos in the yorba linda/anaheim hills area
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