The Original Fresh Tortillas Grill

I can’t believe the bad reviews this place has gotten. We’ve ordered from here on Seamless a few times and have always had a satisfyingly good Mexican meal. This place ACTUALLY does make fresh tortillas and that’s the best part about this restaurant.
We usually order half a dozen tacos. Like other people mentioned, the steak and chicken are a little salty and chewy but honestly it’s not bad. The tortillas are delicious, and the tacos are served with a little greens and tons of sides of sour cream and various salsas. Of note, it’s not on the seamless menu, but this place offers soft flour tortillas, hard corn tortillas, OR soft corn tortillas. Just specify what you want in the order.
The cheese enchiladas are very basic, just cheese wrapped up with tortillas, but boy are they satisfying! The enchilada plate is only $ 6.99 and comes with 2 cheese enchiladas, black beans, rice, and guacamole. Honestly, that’s an incredible deal for a satisfying meal.
This place is nothing fancy but gets the job done and serves up a basic, cheap, good taco and/​or enchilada.

A tortilla machine really does exist!
Finally dropped in to discover that «fresh tortillas» do indeed exist at 2^nd Avenue’s eponymous store, complete with a tortilla press as well as little balls of dough visible underneath the prep counter.
On the other hand, shouldn’t have been surprised that this Mexican restaurant was run by a 100% Chinese staff. As a result, the soft taco al carbon (marinated beef) was tasty, but wasn’t much of a Mexican taco. To sum it up, it was a warm and fluffy flour tortilla wrapped around a reasonably generous pile of beef. That’s it. No lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, cilantro, sour cream. Salsa was offered on the side. Even Chinese pork buns have more ingredients!
To be fair, there are quesadillas and burritos on the menu. Hopefully these menu items feature a greater diversity of ingredients. And taste somewhat Mexican.
Also wonder if tortillas are sold a la carte?

I ordered my food one and a half hours ago. Still not here. I have no idea how they have 5 stars on seamless. Must be a scam.

Why do Chinese people make Mexican food?
This doesn’t make any sense and the food is really really gross.

Food showed up 30 mins late. Tacos were soggy and stone cold. Rice and beans were tasty but guacamole was flavorless and bland. Meh.

Whenever im around the area i always drop by to get a tostadas salad from here. They are quick, friendly and very tasty! I’ve tried the shrimp, chicken and steak. They were all good! The tostada shell is so crispy and flaky. But the bottom is slightly soggy by the time i get to it. Probably from the salad and sauces or just oily? But very good portion w enough ingredients (comes w jalapeños!!!)

I love TexMex, so I had to try this place since it’s near where I occasionally work on weekends.
Never again…
Pros:
Inexpensive but still much higher than similar fare in Queens.
Cons:
Dirty.
No Grade sign posted.
Took nearly 30 minutes to make a few chili tacos because they had no ground beef cooked.
They microwaved their «grilled» beef.
3 people just stood around in the kitchen while just one person did everything.
Places like this are supposed to be cheap, tasty, fast, and clean.
They batted 0.

I ordered two specifically vegetarian things and found two different bits of meats in my rice and beans. That kind of ended it for me. Threw out the enchiladas.
I had eaten the nachos before i found out and they were ok. Nothing special. But wouldn’t risk it again, thats for sure.

Very slow delivery. Cold food. Tastes nothing like Mexican food. Chipotle is way better comparing to them.

Sometimes during my lunch I like to take long walks, and I will from time to time stop by here.
I’ll say this right off the bat: there are better Tex-​Mex places in NYC. Hey, the carts by Our Lady of Guadelupe on 14^th St. sell way better tacos.
However, they do serve decent food at cheap prices. Their lunch combos, at about $ 7, are filling, and you can get a tortilla filled with meat for about $ 3.
I’ve had no problems with the service, which is basically you order what you want at the counter, they prepare it and put it on a tray, and you walk to a table. I’ve never ordered delivery, so I can’t say anything about it.

Food is decent, beans are nasty, service is not acceptable. These people don’t even know English and are always «forgetting» something. Do yourself a favor and just walk to chipotle

Great food and great service, loved the chicken fajitas and steak quesadillas, definitely plan on ordering out in future, also can order thru grubhub app

Almost 2hrs late– cold and not good. Nothing else needed to say.

Beware of this place — I can’t believe it has an average of 2.5 stars– but at least it is not as overrated as on Seamless– where it boasts 5 stars, which has to be fraudulent — I was tricked on Seamless and want to pass along the appropriate rating here too. I couldn’t eat the Guac, the chicken was greasy, no breast meat — Nothing like a tostada should be. Steak was edible.
At best a star and a half — been living in the city for a decade and this place is the worst Mexican restaurant I’ve had. Also, I ate at the restaurant about 5 years ago — and the quality was no better.

Great taco’s and they have real home made tortillas! It is a dive, but the food is great — AND they will deliver to the west side! I am from out west and it is hard to get the homemade tortillas and real Mexican food.

Your average, run of the mill Tex-​Mex cuisine prepared to order by Asian folks. This place is good, not great, and their prices are fair for NYC. Nothing on the menu is going to blow you away, but nothing will disappoint either. And just like all the others, they are very stingy with the sour cream and salsa. I wouldn’t go out of my way to come here, but it’s worth a try if you’re in the neighborhood.

Never again.
Make sure you have your phone number correctly because the delivery guy is a jerk. I called to change my number since I ordered through seamless. Whomever I spoke with said they would tell the delivery guy and when I met him after some minutes of waiting he got extremely disrespectful. I was so disgusted.
He’s lucky I tipped beforehand. Anyway, I thought the food would be okay but its mediocre. The quesdilla wasn’t even cut like what the hell? Did you guys just slap it on? Still annoyed by this 3 days later. Don’t waste your time with this bland food and horrible service.

It’s kind of hit and miss with Mexican food in NYC. I’m from Texas, so I have a bit of a higher standard. I’m very surprised to see the low ratings here, though.
The delivery took about 40 minutes, which was about 10 minutes longer than the estimated time, but I barely noticed.
PROS: I ordered a tostada and these guys are SMART! They package the meat/​onions and cheese in a separate aluminum foil package, which ensures the hot food stays hot and cool vegetables stay cold, with the added bonus of keeping the shell crispy! GENIUS. Why other places don’t institute this practice, I will never know.
The food was tasty! The chicken was seasoned well, the vegetables were fresh (lettuce crispy). The only disappointment was the guacamole. It looked nice, but was extremely bland.
And the prices are fantastic. I ordered a Chicken Fajita Tostada, Chicken Taco, Chips and Guac for about $ 12. You can’t beat that!

One desperate night, I went on Seamless and ordered from The Original Fresh Tortillas. I could have gone with Moe’s or Chipotle’s but decided that I would try a «cheaper» alternative that had a delivery time of less than 30 – 45 minutes.
You’d be STUPID if you were expecting top-​notch Mexican/​Tex Mex food and would recommend taking basic courses on managing expectations!!! I guess I was stupid.
We ordered the 1. chicken & rice side and 2. a steak, rice, tortilla entrée that comes with a little bit of guacamole and iceberg lettuce you can use to make tiny burritos for yourself.
Complaints–
1. I would highly recommend to get steak and not the chicken. The chicken was salty and very dry. After a few pieces of chicken, we could not have any more. The steak is a much better option, imo.
2. The yellow rice is almost like a basmatic rice, so it’s not as soft as the type of rice you would normally find in a burrito. And WHY DOES IT STINK? It wreaks of canola oil and you can just smell it coming out of the styrofoam container. I couldn’t eat much of it because it also leaves a very oily film in your mouth.
3. The guacamole was bitter. And it wasn’t because it was a fresh homemade batch with one too many squeezed limes, it was obviously a packaged guacamole that they purchased form a distributor, which may or may not have gone bad because it wasn’t handle properly.
Try it out, I dare you!

I had a shrimp loco taco and a shrimp fajita, as well as a side of black beans. All that for a delivery near Port Authority (in the NYT building) for 11 bucks with 15% tip.
I’d say its pretty good value.
Taste-​wise, I’d recommend you skip it the next time around.
The shrimp was seasoned pretty well, but it was a bit sea smelling for my taste… frequent seafoodies and others may know what I’m talking about– others, maybe not.
I thought the fajita was better than the loco taco but I used the second layer burrito outside the taco to eat my black beans with. The beans were good, but I mean, you can’t really mess up on black beans?
I should have trusted the reviews on Unilocal and not just relied on the ones from seamless web! Although, delivery was fast and food was good, there are just SO many other NYC options for me to repeat.
But, try the fajita out since I did enjoy it.