Padilla's Original Mexican Food

Family friendly atmosphere. Small joint. Temper your ambience expectations. But raise on expectations the heck up on getting quality food. I ordered a bean taco and this is what I got with veggies. Scrumptious! I highly recommend this place.Luis (co-owner) was very helpful with designing my order and even made suggestions that created a delightful end result.The red sauce is hot! And very flavorful.

Vegetarian options: Ordered the veggie bean taco

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

A group of 9 of us are looking for a place to eat around 9pm and this place graciously accepted our group! The food was unbelievably delicious and authentic! Service was great as well! The 2 gentleman working were very pleasant and personable! I would definitely go back if I was in the area!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

i got carnitas tacos, and couldn’t even wait till i got back to work to try one. they were delicious and exactly what i wanted and expected. thank you guys.

Called in an order for pickup. It was ready in 20 minutes. I got the chimichanga and it was perfect and their homemade salsas are good as well

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I ordered Al Pastor tacos over the phone and had asked them to double up on the tortillas. They told me they would but didn't. Also, the portion size of the meat was little. Besides that...the food is fresh and good.

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Al Pastor

Ordered delivery lunch today. They said 30 minutes. Called back an hour later. They said they were busy and didn’t know when they could deliver. I don’t understand why they couldn’t have been honest when we originally called instead of giving us a delivery time they must have known they couldn’t meet.

Service: 1

Al pastor is really good!! Lil kick to it

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Al Pastor

nice visit for lunch. we had four items off menu. let's start with service. The friendly staff are really wonderful here.. next we had a chip and sauce. The generous portion of Chorizo Tacos with onion, cilantro and lime. were fresh and tastful. we moved on to a much surprise Esquites...boiled corn soup...nice but need salt. The mole poblano...was seriously out of this world.Next, the Tostadas DE Tinga....I love Tinga. so when I see it on a menu I get excited. Flavor tasted homemade...Empananda fried perfectly....will come back real soon...try this place...make note...limited seating...great food in Neptune on your way to beach or heading home.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Spicy Taco, Mole Oaxaqueno

Before it’s reopening, it used to be my favorite place. The portions were very generous for the price too. I decided to give it a shot after seeing it had reopened and I was shocked at how small the portions were for the price being that I ordered the same thing I had always gotten and how tasteless the food was. I called the restaurant to ask kindly what I could do. As someone that has worked in the restaurant industry for years, when someone complained I was always apologetic and did everything in my power to make the customer happy. I was given my money back but it wasn’t until after getting some attitude after I even tried to kindly explain what was wrong with my meal. The only thing that I enjoyed was the horchata- very good!

The food is not what it used to be. The pork tasted off and the nachos, which were my personal favorite, are not what they used to be. It seems like they went to their local food store to get the cheese and the nachos. I would recommend the Blue Habanero which is only a block away.

The steak and chicken tacos were great! The staff was very friendly.

Amazing food, portions, prices, and people. Dining room tables only seat 2 people, unless somehow combined, FYI. Will 100% come back here!

Worst experience ever. All the food was over salted, especially the beans. Besides salt, there was no flavor. I am surprised that this place has so many good ratings!

The plantains are excellent and worth the $5 even though they are not listed as an 'ordenes extra'. I got the chiles rellenos and it came with one problano. However, for $11 I don't think it was worth the price. I'm willing to come back and try the cubana sandwich though; after that I think that might be it for me.

The location is convenient. The food is ok, it could use more flavor. The soft chicken tacos are good. The birra tacos were bland. The tacos dorado entrée was delicious and the portion size was great for the price. I was disappointed with the esquite, it isn't the traditional recipe that consists of white corn. It was very watery and not appetizing. Overall the customer service is good and they have your food ready in a timely manner.