El Toro Tortilleria No 2

Delicious for tacos to go! The quality of the meat and fish was very good, tortillas were sooo fresh and the men working there are great looking and very helpful with suggestions. My review is based on the food, not judging it on the atmosphere because it really is more of a deli/​catering establishment — don’t plan to come in and sit for lunch.

I have no idea why I was in this place. I heard it is good. It is not my type of place. There was a giant tray of something that looked like blood arteries. A bit larger than the thickness of a pencil, and it looked like there was stuff in the tubes. I think it may have been intestines, but I would think intestines would be larger diameter. And the smell??? Oh, no. Not for me. And skin of pigs, GIANT pieces, like the size of large paper grocery bags… FRIED and sitting in a cabinet with heat. Obviously, this is a cultural food that I am not accustomed to and so my opinion should not matter to people who actually eat intestines or blood arteries. I have no idea why I did not run out when I saw and smelled the things, but I did end up ordering a bean burrito, and the beans were not hot enough for safe food practices. Health department issue. My major concern was that the creepy guts have been cut and leave gut germs all over the place. I did not get food poisoning, just extraordinarily bad gas. Horrific gas. I ate half of my burrito. Will not return. Intestines, if that is what the tubes are, have feces in them. I just did couple hours research on this, and it is true: They stink. This is not something a person should consume, for many reasons.

Been eating here forever. My dad would always take some carnitas and chicharrones home on sundays. My favorite tacos is tacos De carnitas. hella bomb! They put a lot of meat in the tacos and tortas I get full with just one taco. Seriously love this place just wish it can be a little more organized when ordering food and paying for the food. Overall I recommend it :)

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN SANTA MARIA!!!
man where to start.
Customer Service was friendly and great! i was in the mood for a torta i asked the guy what he recommended and said the carne asada since they just received it and was fresh! i am glad i asked because it really was fresh and DELICIOUS! i recommend the torta with carne asada but get it w/​o the beans it will taste better and their green salsa was bomb! it was worth the $ 4.50
i also had some tacos de carnitas with everything it was also delicious!!! and BIG! worth the $ 2.50 compare to the size other places give theirs is the size of two $ 1.50 tacos so it is worth it

The food is really good, but the service isn’t too great. The people to the left that get your food are very nice, but the girls who run the registers tend to not be very nice. Prices are reasonable and you get a lot of food.

Great burrito for $ 4.00. The tacos are awesome too! Great place for authentic Mexican food. Love the fresh tortillas!

Lucked out when we stopped for lunch here. It looks like they are mainly a catering business, but we ordered some tacos to go and LOVED them. Everything is very fresh.

Best chicharones in town. Didn’t care much for the salsa verde but the buche is the bomb!

A simple deli style shop, El Toro must have an army of Mexican grandmothers stashed away somewhere in the back making all of these wonderful foods.
El Toro is consistently delicious, well prepared, and CHEAP. You can feed a family of four for under $ 15. You can get a combination plate of your favorite meat (carne asada, pollo, chile verde, chili colorado, carnitas, buche, lengua, whatever they have) with beans, rice, salsa, and a half dozen fresh (and I mean taken right off the production line) tortillas for $ 5. You can get a burrito that will dwarf pretty much any other standard burrito in town for $ 4. Tacos are about $ 1.50. Tacos dorados are 50 cents. I can go on and on and on.
I would have given them five stars, but the most recent time we went, they made a simple mistake and overcharged my wife’s debit card $ 40. It was an honest mistake that happens in the mêlée of a cafeteria style line, but it was one that still required dealing with the bank and monitoring her account to see if the money came back.
They could however make up that star if they also started making fresh flour tortillas in house…

Authentic interior of Mexico fare – buche (throat), tripas (intestine), ensalada de nopal (cactus salad), requeson (pot cheese), chicharron (chitlings), etc. etc. etc.
Really a take-​out type place. whether to eat right away or bring home and have later or freeze. I always buy the chile de arbol sauce to cook with at home… chile con huevos, chile con queso, chile con carne, etc.
They make their corn tortillas on the premises but I think Diana’s are just as good, maybe better. And while Michele is right, there’s no place to sit and eat, there is a place to stand and eat… there’s a stool high counter (sans stools) around the perimeter so you can scarf at least one thing down before you get back in your car.

Can I get a napkin, please??? It’s to wipe up the excessive drool.
So on my last night in Santa Maria, Monday night, I decided to have some good, I-can’t-get-this-back-in-Northern Virginia, Mexican food. I discovered this place on Christmas day, when I was at another carneceria looking for carne asada to throw on the grill. People told me if I wanted good food, I needed to drive a few streets over.
As soon as I got out of my car, in the parking lot, I nearly peed my pants. I hadn’t experienced that kinda pleasure since I left my favorite joints in East L.A. and downtown Santa Ana.
I walked in and noticed the hot assed young man behind the counter. Luckily he was the one to help me! there is a hot case to one side, with plenty of prepared dishes. The case to the right contains all kinds of side dishes, such as different types of salsas, «salads» i.e. escabeche, etc. I ordered the Chile Verde with rice and beans, and then got additional containers of rice, beans, and salsa. All of that cost under $ 9.00. That’s what I’m talkin’ about! All orders are to go, by the way. As big as it is, there is no place to sit and eat.
I get it home and took a bite of the pork. Very nice. Tender, not fatty, perfectly spiced for me, and plenty of it. I split the order with my mother, because there was that much in the container, then divided the rice and beans for us. Add in the super fresh, super hot corn tortillas and the salsa, and you have two women in a house with their eyes rolled to the back of their heads.
I can’t wait for that next trip back home!