Taqueria Los Altos

I hesitate to write this review, because I don’t want more people eating here.
Tried this place after ‘Tamale House’ went out of business (we miss you!).
Most of the clientele are still workman and the like. Maybe because it’s kind of a scary looking on the outside.
Inside it’s perfectly nice. Very clean and well lit with tele-​novellas playing on the TV.
We come here with the kids all the time. It is crazy cheap, and really really good.
My youngest gets the tacos. My oldest gets the migas. I get the steak ranchero. The wife is more adventurous and wanders around the menu.
Is the food really good? Yes it is. (much better than the previously mentioned Tamale House)
Is the food as good as, say, Trudy’s? Well, no.
Does it cost ¹⁄₃ of what Trudy’s costs? Yes it does.
I can take the whole fam here for about $ 20.
Never a wait. Friendly service. Good food. Incredible prices.
One of my very favorite places in Austin.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get eaten alive by rising rents and hipsters.

Food was good and service was great! Only thing I didn’t like was the smell of the place, it smelled like dirty mop. If you ever feel like coming to eat some good tacos and pancakes this is the place

Breakfast Taco Review —
Size, quality and price are unbeatable! Hands down scrumptious! Get your fat kid status on and order it with CHEESE! Thank me later…
Can the building use a little updating/​cleaning. Probably. Don’t let this distract you from the B-​Taco! The only and I mean ONLY downside is how they wrap them. If you order 1 – 3 tacos. They wrap them all together, this coupled with ordering cheese… Everything gets glued together by the shear volume of cheese they put on it (this is a good thing people) but makes a mess when trying to separate other peoples B-​Tacos!
My advice? DON’T share your taco. Love the taco, enjoy the taco, and spend your time with the taco, then cuddle the taco.

This place has some great food and also some great staff I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for some good Mexican food

One of my favorite places to go in Austin for breakfast tacos. The building is kinda run down & old, but the food is authentic. I haven’t tried other items on their menu, but the breakfast tacos are not only full and loaded with cheese, but super inexpensive. On a Saturday morning, I can order four 3 item tacos and walk out only paying a little over $ 5.
The salsa also rocks! They have three different kinds. A traditional chunky red, a smooth green, & an extra spicy red-​orange one. The Mexican sausage (chorizo) is yummy, but can be a little oily so just watch out for that!

Amazing food. Always find the best and friendliest at the «off the beaten path» places.

Not gonna lie, My boyfriend and I get bfest from here almost every weekend. I usually get their breakfast plate with eggs and chorizo and cheese. Their bfest tacos are good too and very cheap before 11am! We always get their chips and salsa, I am pretty sure their salsa is homemade? This is a NO FRILLS place. Like someone said, Some of the staff don’t speak a lot of English so knowing Spanish is nice but not necessary. Cheap and good what more could you want?

Another great favorite of mine. I’ve pretty much tried everything on the menu! The only thing I haven’t had a chance of trying is the menudo!
The Chips & Salsa are super good. And I love great salsa, and their green salsa is the best.

Went here last night with my roomy. I was kind of leery of the place because when I walked in there were hardly anybody there plus it just looks like a little seedy hole in the wall on the side of the road restaurant. Not to mention my roomy brought up someone writing on here they saw a rat in the place back in 2010. Also the shady looking characters that walk in and out of the restaurant using the bathroom. But nevertheless I was willing to give it a try. Their salsa was nothing special and wasn’t that spicy. I ordered the usual beef enchiladas w/​red sauce. Tasted like nothing special but they were OK. The only thing I didn’t like about it was there was an eyelash on my cheese. Of course it grossed me out but these are the chances we take when we eat out. I didn’t tell the waitress or anything because I figured there was no point. So I just cut that part off and ate the rest. My roomy ordered a tasty looking chicken fajita plate. They have green sauce which is a plus. I do plan on going back and ordering what he got. I love chicken fajitas and they made it the way I liked it.

This is the first Mexican restaurant that I’ve tried in Austin after recently moving here. I’ve had plenty of Tex Mex in Houston, and this beats every other place I’ve eaten.
I ordered the #32 combination plate with the seasoned Barbacoa and beef fajita as my meat options. This is a lot of delicious food for only $ 6.99! It comes with fantastic rice and refried beans, and the «salad» is shredded lettuce with a fresh tomato slice and two slices of avocado that I just wrapped into the tortillas. Everything was very fresh and extremely flavorful; fajita beef is chewy at a lot of places but here it was tender and amazing.
The fresh made chips and salsa are also amazing! The chips came out hot and crisp, and the salsa had the perfect amount of spice. I will definitely be going back!

I’ve been here plenty of times during my lunch hour. Sometimes it’s packed, sometimes it’s dead. Regardless, you always get good service which is the main reason I am giving this place 5 stars. The food is cheap, you can get a lot of food for less than 7 dollars. Is it authentic Mexican? No. Is it good? It’s alright. Is it pretty? No. This is the kind of place with canned sodas, red plastic cups, clear plastic covering the tables, and flimsy menus. I came in here knowing what to expect and I get what I expect. I also like how friendly they are, they already recognize me as I come in and know I won’t want chips. I’m usually in an out in 45 minutes which is great during lunch hour. I usually get the milanesa, cheese enchiladas in green sauce, or the barbacoa plate. The tortillas are not handmade. Their green salsa is amazing but you usually have to ask for it. They mostly just speak Spanish. You pay at cashier. I recommend it if you are close and need a quick lunch that isn’t fast food and want good service.

I love this place. I usually go here for breakfast tacos. Staff is very friendly, although some do not speak English so being a little Spanish with you. Their salsas are fresh and delicious. Super inexpensive too!

Alright time to update since their phone seems to be working now. Great breakfast tacos – I particularly love the potato/​egg/​cheese, migas, or bacon/​egg/​potato.
Only 4 stars because their to go orders aren’t ready super fast. Not a big deal since I think they only have one cook, I just have to remember to call a little earlier than normal on my way to work and sometimes I have to wait.
The girls at the front are always nice. Their salsa is tasty but different – it’s blended but the onion is crunchy so the texture is a little unexpected.
Looking forward to trying lunch sometime.

I’ve learned over time that if you want good cultural cuisine, you should get it where it’s made by those of the actual culture. Los Altos is exactly that kind of dive. I was introduced to it by my Hispanic friend – can’t get a better recommendation than that!
Also, I find it rather easy to eat paleo here because everything is served separately on a plate and you build your own meal.
Appearances on the outside are indeed a wee bit sketchy, but everything on the inside seems well kept and, despite my addiction to this place, I and have never gotten a stomachache! Enjoy!

A year later and it’s still the only taqueria I go to now. I highly recommend the tacos adodabas. I think that’s how it’s spelled. It’s got a picture on the bottom of the left inside flap of the menu.

This is my «backup burrito joint» these days. They have a nearly identical menu/​pricing to Chapala down on Caesar Chavez.
Good beef fajita burrito (solo — not the plate). Good pricing. It’s about $ 5.50 for burrito and ice tea.
Service can be a little slow in the mid-​afternoons (after the lunch rush dies down), but it’s not usually a problem.
Enjoy your burrito my friends.

Pro’s:
1. I got to practice my spanish from the moment I walked in the door.
2. Burrito Con Queso cost 6 bucks and tasted great. A bargain, I thought.
3. Service, Jessica, was great. She’s very sweet and attentive.
Con’s:
1. It’s a dive and isn’t terribly clean. — This place is not for the faint of heart.
2. I got deathly ill about 4 hours after leaving and I’m pretty sure it was my $ 6 buck Burrito.
I will probably stick with Chipotle from here on out and practice my spanish at Fiesta…

Okay so after reading all of the good reviews I decided to get Migas there because I was craving them. The location is fine, it definitely is a little worn on the inside but whatever.
So, I get this plate which i think is migas but all i see is cheese… way too much cheese. I mean seriously sooo much cheese. Okay well underneath all of that queso crap there were decent eggs but not enough jalepeno I think.
Anyways not going back unless I want to gain five pounds.

This place is really good! I worry that it never seems that busy, but I also sort of hope that the hipsters don’t «discover» it and ruin the vibe.
I’m new to the neighborhood and haven’t tried everything they have yet, but I love to go for lunch and just have a couple tacos with rice and beans which is plenty of food and only comes to around $ 6. I’ve had the guisada, pastor, beef fajita, and Jalisco style pork tacos. All delicious, served on fresh tortillas with cilantro and onions.
I had to give it 3 stars and not 4 because they don’t seem to have a really spicy sauce that I can drizzle on top of my tacos (just the table salsa which is tasty, but not spicy enough). I’ve also had a couple things that were not so stellar (the taquitos were kind of bleh…) but overall, I’d recommend it.

I used to come here sometimes, and I didn’t realy care that it was sort of dirty because it was pretty cheap and edible. However, I no longer eat here because last time I was here eating about a year ago, i saw a giant rat running around in the main dining room. No, not a cute little white mouse, but a huge honkin’ fucking diseased-​looking black RAT.
When i told the waiter about it, she looked under a table where the rat was, screamed a little bit, seemed embarassed, then shrugged when the rat ran under the jukebox, but didn’t do anything about it. You always hear horror stories about people finding hair in their food, rude waiters, or seeing bugs at various restaurants, but a fucking FOOTLONG RAT running around in the dining room!!! Couldn’t stomach any more food, and they wouldn’t comp my meal either. Fucking GROSS! Never coming here again.