El Super

This store looks like someone with the stomach flu feels! That being said the customer service was unbelievable… The cashier was gossiping to the cashier behind her and was not paying attention until I told her to quit talking and finish up with me so I could leave… Apart from that their produce is always moldy and has a nasty amount of flies on them… Its extremely disgusting and will not buy anything from them again.

My review is based on a most recent visit.
Before this store became «El Super» the service at «El Tapatio» was great! The food court, customer service and the quality of the food was better than what it is now. The name of this store does not suite them as everything about this store is horrible.
My most recent visit was because my mom noticed a weekly flyer that was advertising fish ceviche for 3.99 a pound. The flyer was not specific about the type of ceviche or whether there were conditions to the special. However, upon arriving and asking about this special, my mother who was with me and is elderly was rudely approached by the worst employees with terrible customer service I have ever experienced. Their attitude demonstrated to me that they could care less whether they provided a service or retained a customer for that matter.
The flyer was not honored and they gave me some ridiculous story about how the special was for a different kind of ceviche, which was not specified in the flyer or found in the store. This leads me to believe that their weekly advertisements are attempts to lure people in and that to me is completely deceitful. Further, their demeanor was unacceptable. I am completely disappointed with this store. I would not recommend this store to anyone!
Now as far as their ceviche goes, before Tapatio ceviche used quality fish, sea bass, now the fish used is swai fish from china and it is not alway cooked appropriately and the flavor is always a hit and miss.
This place, I feel does not care about making business or retaining any of their customers. As for me, my immediate and extended family will not be shopping at this store. Their bedside manner is a clear indication of what they think about their store and the people that shop there, who by the way pay their salary.

Horrible customer service. Cashiers have a terrible attitude. Whoever took this place over, obviously has the wrong people put it in place when dealing with the public.

Carne asada use to be good when it was El Tapatio. Quality of meat and marinade is poor.

This used to be El Tapatio for those that know Corona. I love coming here to get a variety of produce, spices, & enjoy the yummy deli section. The meats are always low is cost. Honestly the cheapest grocery experience but the service isn’t there! Argh! The last two visits have ended with some type of frustrating scenario. Visit One: they ran out of shopping carts! Are you kidding?! You want shoppers but every single cart can be found in the dirty parking lot. Come on. Visit Two: while I understand that technology can fail us at times… all the registers card system went down & could only accept cash (nobody carries cash anymore). Luckily, they had a ATM on site but the machine obviously charges you an extra fee for using it to withdrawal cash. $ 2.35 to be exact, I’m being charged an extra $ 2.35 for the lack on efficiency? Is the savings worth the inconveniences? Not sure.

Kind of upset with my experience here. This place is near my work and I was so excited to come here on my lunch break for some tacos. I stood in the «order here» line and the lady asked me something in Spanish. Unfortunately I am not bilingual so I just said «excuse me.» She then responded, «are you ready.» I said yes and asked if I could please get two fish tacos. The pointed to another line so I just said thank you and went to the other line. When I got to that line the lady looked at me so I just asked «can I please get two fish tacos.» She then pointed to the line I was just sent from. So, I said «that lady just sent me over here.» She looked at me and started logging into the computer. I said two fish tacos and she charged me (this lady was fairly nice to me). I placed my order at 10:34. It is now 10:50 and no sign of my tacos. I understand it is not that much time but they are just fish tacos. I could have got them at a restaurant for the same amount of time and less hassle. Not the experience I was looking for.

The worst. After el super took over the place is a dump!!! Wanted to try out this place and to my surprise everything looks shitty, quality well there is no quality. It’s a dump. But I decided to give there bread a chance and to my surprise my bread has a fuckn piece of plastic in it. Wtf!!! Will reporting this place to health inspections and also contacting the manager. People don’t buy this is shit hole go to stater bros or go to Cardenas way better everything.

I have shop at a lot of el super stores and this one is one of the best. They just took over this location from el tapatio and i love the changes. They still have to finish the renovations but their prices are the best. Their meat and produce is always fresh. The only thing is that they do get lines at the check stands due to lack of personnel.

El Tapatio had a great deli and bakery until it sold it to El Super. Now the food is crappy.

Tapatio just became El Super. I was just there, meat department lady who helped me out, made a weird face when the guy worker asked her to help me out. If you don’t like what you do, then that’s not the place for you. You did look very unhappy lady…

I should visit here more often to shop for fruits and veggies. They also have an awesome deli counter with juices and and ceviche and hot food, with plenty of seating area. Great for quick (*and healthy) snacking or picking up dinner. It should also be added that their bakery section is loaded with delicious selections of sweet bread and intricately decorated cakes. And what’s this? A cupcake with frosting designed to look like a Westie terrier? (See my photo in the gallery.)

Mexican food in a high quality Mexican market is ALWAYS good. I had a chicharrons quesadilla that was on-​point, AND they have watermelon juice: the best juice ever. They have a station dedicated to juicing any other kind of fruit you can think of. I’ll be checking out their ceviche station next time: a whole section dedicated to different ceviche in different ways. Most importantly, the people who work here are attentive and nice. Frank helped me out at the register after seeing I was a lost lil gringo. He gave me some samples of meat and was patient. The manager walked around and made sure people where getting their orders, and this isn’t even a restaurant. This place is definitely a must.

Bringing them down a peg because I’ve been here three times now. All three times (once on a weekend afternoon) the tortilleria was «out of tortillas». Really?

I have shopped here only a couple of times, but each time my experience was fine. I usually go to order from the food court, the rice, beans and pico de gallo, always yummy yummy to my tummy!

This place really is a gem. Great prices– in produce. My fav part is the restaurant…:they are awesome– if zendejas in the same parking lot just served el tapatio food, they’d be Rollin in $$.
Huevos rancheros is amazing– beef tacos /​carnitas are fabulous — bionicos are addicting– love their ceviche and Platanos Maduros are GReAT…

absolutely amazing, try the shrimp tacos and the ladies there are so sweet

I bought 15 items and only spent $ 32.76. If you ever been broke you know how to minimize your money, so it’s way cheaper when you have money because you know what to get and what’s on sale.

I’ve tried many meat markets for when j decide to do BBQ. And this place has the best quality and tasting meat around. It isn’t overloaded with too much salt making the taste very pleasing.

This is a great grocery store with a dine-​in area. Big meat selection and their prepared carne asada was really good. This is where I get my mexican sweet bread.

Love the meat counter here… they have all kinds of great ingredients that you can’t always find easily in some stores.
The chicharron con carne in the food court is awesome. Carnitas pretty good too and I love the creamy green salsa… not quite sure of all the ingredients but it’s super fresh.

Awesome. Freakin awesome

OMG have I been sleeping on this place or what?! I live right across the street and have never taken the time to visit this supermarket. I’m new to Corona and have been looking for decent tasting mariscos for some time. Well I’m actually moving out to LA county in a few days and since I’m too busy packing I thought I would stop by and see what the big fuss is about. My attention was automatically drawn to the Ceviche counter. I ordered a tostada de ceviche de camaron and omggg it was so good! Many seafood places are skimpy on the shrimp; this one wasn’t, not to mention the generous portion of the tostada. I’m a small girl with a big appetite but one tostada was enough!
My two year old was with me too, and I ordered her a «kids combo». That meal consisted of Mexican rice, chicken, and a Capri sun juice.
Oops forgot to mention I ordered an horchata which was pretty good in comparison to that of most places! I will miss this store!

El Tapatio is my new gem. I am not Hispanic and do not frequent ethnic markets or places that I do not feel comfortable in my surroundings. Having traveled around the world, I can appreciate the diversification and levels of experiences. El Tapatio is a typical market catering to the Hispanic community at large. Heck, I was the only Asian in there. I bought pandulce, a sweet bun sprinkled with flavored sugar and they were fresh so I bought a dozen. Found my papayas and bought two. I went to the back to find La Cocina, Ceviche Bar and fresh fruit smoothie bar. I lined up with the natives and ordered burrito de lengua and ceviche de pescado. Now, many of you who have eaten at the standard El Torritos, Acapulco, Zendejas, El Tepeyac or Miguels or many of the eateries purporting to serve authentic Mexican food, well this is the best one so far in the Inland Empire and the prices are reasonable to best deal in town.
My companion and I had the same plates, fresh, I mean fresh pineapple and mango juice made right there with the ingredients one doesn’t see at the higher priced franchises that mix carrot juice and water things down. The flavor is the exact sensations that one would feel and taste in Central America or Malaysia. The burritos were filled with meat and was as fresh as they come and the aromas and flavors I have to agree out does the last place I spent $ 70 for lunch at Las Companas in the Mission Inn. At the kitchen in back of El Tapatio, at La Cocina, the best eatery offers honest values and the best of flavors that is plain wonderful. I will not mind the prejudices I may get going there when I know that I will be a regular to win the people over because I am a man of the world and as such I am not easily turned away because they are confused that an Asian man would order food or that I am not a Hispanic from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala… I happen to like all people of the world and I encourage you to keep an open mind and through our actions and determination, a better tasting world would result. So go out there and save money and eat and live better! Cheers!

I’m basing my review on the food catering service I ordered for cinco de mayo. I ordered the catering pack that feeds 20 – 25 people in which it was so easy to place online. It was straight forward by just selecting date/​time of pick up, choose you 2 main course selection and your sides. For the main dishes I choose the chopped up beef carna asada and the chicken fajita which was soo delicious. For sides I got the beans and rice which was also amazing. Also for sides that was included in the packaged deal were chips, 4 types of salsa, and 2 big bag of tortilla. The whole catering food I got for my work was a success, everyone loved the food.

This is the best place to go for vegetables, plus the restaurant and bakery serve up fresh bread in the morning and great food all day!

Mexican market, would help if you spoke spanish before you arrived, but all the employees, though spanish is their first language, speak english as well.
Clean market for the foot traffic it gets. Local produce for sale, a great carniceria in the back left corner (great for eating in, they have picnic tables for eating at IN the market) Fun! or you can take it to go. Most of the products are spanish labels I have never heard of, but I usually go for in when we are entertaining and the menu is mexican food.
Fresh meats, beans, rice and other goodies for bbq’s with friends.
Fun atmosphere, crazy, buzzing energy…