El Rey Taqueria

9742 Katy Fwy #100, Houston
(832) 358-8100

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jeff wolfe

Great grilled chicken salad, very fresh ingredients. A must have in summer months.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Grilled Chicken Salad

Whitney

Here’s what I ordered. A # 52. Giant Burrito - Mexicana style: choice of fajita meat with Mexican rice, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream, charro beans & shredded cheese, $14.30

✅ Dine in seating + a drive through window
✅ Decent menu options
? I asked for chicken and they gave me beef ? ?
? There was not a lot of meat in the burrito ?
? The cashier looked disappointed I didn’t give them a tip for an order I placed at the drive through window.
?I’m not sure if I’d recommend or return to this location.
? I tried this place today because I was in the area shopping at neighboring stores.

At the time of posting, I visited here once on Saturday June 29th at 3:50 pm

Food: 3

Service: 3

Roxanna Rosenbaum

All the food here is super fresh and tasty. I have tried so many different items over the years and everything has been great ? I particularly enjoy the Cuban tacos with the black beans and plantain- my favorite now!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Domingo Tumax

Food is good but service
At least with us very rude...

Shadre Carrington

Prices here are astonishingly high for fast food, which you would assume would go towards paying employees a livable wage. Yet, I am asked to tip in the drive thru.

I have no issue with tipping employees who provide a service to me, like waiters and delivery drivers, but tipping in a drive thru is ridiculous. It would at least feel worth it if I got speedy and friendly service, but they are consistently slow and blasé.

The food and the service aren’t good enough to justify these new, higher prices or the gall to request a tip in a drive thru.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

Nancy Perez

When this place opened it was awesome; NOW it's just OK, food doesn't taste the same, lemonade taste more like water with SUGAR ??

NOT A PLACE TO GO BACK TO FOR A WHILE ???

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 4

RG Clark

Always fresh, delicious and even though it is “fast” the food is healthy and priced well.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Chicken Tortilla Soup, Black Beans, Beef Fajita

Valerie Nanez

My family and I love this place for a quick bite to eat.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Leo De Leon

Good food. Good value. Clean restaurant. Great menu. Food comes out fast.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Tortilla Soup, El Rey Taco Grilled Fish with a Touch of Habana Style

Celeste Sarabia

This used to be a staple in my family's restaurant picks, but lately, it's become ridiculously expensive. Chuey's , which is a "sit down" restaurant in the same shopping strip, is CHEAPER though the quality of the food and service is comparable.

For our family of 4 to order food, JUST FOOD, NO DRINKS, NO TIP, easily $70!!

That's just ridiculous for nachos and 3 burritos.

Not too long ago it was about $50 which I thought was expensive but worth it...but it's just not worth it any more.

Replacing them with Pollo Loco down the street unfortunately. Will reconsider if their prices are dropped.

Google needs to add an extra $ sign to the description.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 2

Recommended dishes: Burrito

MortFromOrt BehindYou

I was SHOCKED when I went into this restaurant, having visited this same location for better than 10 years now. Bottom line, customers have to contend with the taste of food versus shrink flation and hyper price increases. This is highly evident as El Ray now has BOTH! I was shocked when I saw the nocho’s now cost a few pennies under $15. We ordered the nocho’s any way and a chips and salsa plate. The chips and salsa came with a plate of 40 chips and two small salsa cups for $1.78. The nachos came to us on the same plate size with ONLY the very top 8 chips covered with some fixings. I estimate of the possible 40 chips on the nachos plate, only 8 of them had any stuff on them. I looked at both the chips and salsa plate $1.78 and the nacho’s plate $14.80 and wondered why I would ever in a million year accept this type of shrink-flation AND hyper price increases. I returned the nachos plate and informed the manager that this was completely unacceptable to have both hyper inflated prices AND shrink-flation at the same time. I will no longer eat at El Ray preferring to now just go to a genuine Mexican restaurant where nachos look and taste just like nachos and cost a few bucks less than El Rays. It is a REAL shame that El Rays has pivoted to have both shrink-flation AND hyper price increases.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 4

Farrah Gomez

The King tacos ?.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: El Rey Taco Grilled Fish with a Touch of Habana Style

Julie Nguyen

I’ve been ordering the Cuban Tacos for years from this location, however my last two orders of Cuban Tacos have been extremely salty. Please taste test the meat before serving! All cooks should do this before serving their meat. They are literally over seasoning everything!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 2

Sandra S

Recommend chicken tortilla soup and grilled chicken salad.

Parking: Free parking

Food: 5

Service: 5

Elijah Kabalka

Only giving a 1 star as their food is good but the tips from the tip jar do not go to the employees. The management/owner keeps it. Always give the employees the tip directly!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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