Mercado La Torre

Very excited to hear some news! Great that they are going to reopen. I can wait! Best burritos in the south bay!

Excited about Mercado La Torre’s construction and reopening in the coming months! Loyal customers are awaiting your return.

I just called 12/​18/​2015 & they told me they are OPEN … the old phone gives the new phone number 408−775−4306
Love this place, but haven’t been in a while … wanted tamales & told they don’t have, but said they have masa.
Guess I need to make it over for lunch & see what happened … as folks said they burned & were Closed … but evidently re-​opened.

Came by to have lunch and the whole building has burned. Have they move anywhere else. I always order Masa for tamales for the holidays.

Refused to allow me to dine outdoors with my Service Animal. I requested, I showed my Service Animal registration. female hostess refused. And then the hostess said to me. «get out of the way of my other customer», as a Hispanic women walked in and then the hostess Started speaking in Spanish to the women customer. Against the law !!!

It took me a year to find this place but I’m glad I did. The food is amazing, I love the carnitas, it’s unique and amazing. I always get the burrito if I’m feeling spendy the nachos are really great. I always get a baby burrito for my kids and it’s big enough that they can split it. I’m trying really hard not to go every day.

Thiis in my opinion the best taqueria in Sunnyvale. Thsi littke hidden gem has been open for over 40 years. with that being said, this place has the old school growing up in san francisco, going to the mission and eat a tasty burrito feel. The carne asada, carnitas and barbacoa are all worth mentioning. The have menudo and pozole freshly made on Saturday and Sundays… This is what I consider supporting your local restaurants!

This is my first time here and I went to the bathroom after I have ordered. After I came out the bathroom. My food was ready on the table. The super burrito de langua (tongue) had NO JUICE. The food was cooked too fast and it was dead inside. It didn’t taste delicious.

Rating based on huevos rancheros and service.
My new favorite huevos rancheros – plenty of thick, flavorful tomato sauce, eggs done just right, beans of course, tortillas on the side are thick with just a little toastiness in addition to being steamy. Our server was especially helpful and friendly going out of her way to make sure we had what we wanted and were happy. Tip: Ask for a dash of milk for your coffee if powered whitener isn’t your thing.
No demerits for a tippy chair and DIY-​looking electrical work in light fixtures. Take it as part of the ambiance!

Breakfast burritos are great!
Usually get the chorizo con huevo (eggs and chorizo) that comes with rice, beans, cabbage salad, cheese and salsa. So good! I should just eat half of it side it’s so big but I eat all of it, get super full but totally worth it.
I also love the shrimp burrito on Fridays.

I’ve been coming here for years now after recommended by a family friend. The people that work here are incredibly kind and friendly. I’ve never felt the place feeling unwelcome. The guy who makes the burritos is an amazing cook!!! They usually sell out earlier on in the day, but their tamales here are to die for!!! Always a treat if you can get them!
I’ll be going to get my chicken burrito fix fairly soon :)

This place is pretty good. Sometime it’s a bit salty but overall good taste. Reasonable price. Be careful sometimes it has a lot of fat… Which some ppl might be perfectly fine for most but me, not good. Ppl are nice.

My favorite burrito in the world. If you are in SV, you need to find this little place and buy into all the hype. It’s worth it.
The Burrito… Homemade flour tortillas, loaded with slow cooked meat of your choice, chopped right in front of you. I love the pastor or a carnitas/​chile verde combo. Super simple with rice, beans, cheese and a killer pico de gallo made with cabbage which gives an awesome crunch.
No need for sour cream or guacamole here, although both are available on request. If there on a weekend, make sure to treat yourself to the menudo.
Parents took my brother and I here back in 80’s, and I have never stopped. Not a fancy place by any means, but excellent food, great prices and very friendly staff. I swear I would put this place up against any Bay Area taqueria or «gourmet» taco truck. Salud Mercado La Torre… I’m all in for life.

I come here about once a month for a burrito to go and have always been satisfied, nothing phenomenal, but always pretty good. I give it 3.5 stars.
But after dining in their restaurant and ordering something different than a burrito, I was miffed with the sub par service and the lukewarm food that It was a 1 star experience, not sure how this could even happen, the place is so small and it was not even busy. After waiting about 20 minutes, the food arrived and the nice waiter came and told us the Taquito’s we ordered were not really Taquito’s, but really Flautas, do we still want them? After waiting 20 minutes and serving lukewarm food, you then ask if we now want the Flauta’s? I don’t doubt on any given day, the food and service would be great, but not on this day.

Not good… Not good at all. Chips were not crispy as if left in the open for a long time. After all the reviews I’m reading, I wonder if I came at a bad time (maybe at closing? It was 8 pm though) and the food was lukewarm and tasted mediocre. Tortilla was something I could get off the shelf. Not good… Not good at all.
Quality: 2
Service: 2
Cost: 3

I got a regular burrito here after seeing four stars and I can tell you with an absolute certainty that this place doesn’t deserve such a high rating. It was absolutely the worst burrito I ever had in my life. Not only does it taste bad but it was also extremely expensive. $ 7 for a shitty burrito? I would rather go to Taco Bell and get much cheaper and tastier burrito than come back to this place. I have no clue why so many people gave this place so many stars. My guess is that there’s a serious Unilocal review manipulation going on here.

Pure authentic Mexican. Menu on the wall, chorizo, menudo, and an attached small grocer.
Nothing more authentic than that. Food’s great, come here every week. Most items under $ 8, the specials $ 5.

A good deal for the quality of the food and amount received
I usually rotate the types of meat I like on my burrito but I always am pleased
Only one star off today since my chip back only had 5 chips and no salsa for some reason :(

Hate to say it, but not a good food!
Carne asada is not tasty at all, expensive food for the quality

I’ve been enjoying Mexican food here for literally a couple decades since I was a kid and have seen the place expand and change. The Mexican food here is still the best around though! There is a special every day of the week for a deal. Why would anyone want fast food when you can enjoy some authentic wholesome Mexican food for the same price if not less? Two homemade shredded beef tamales with rice, bean and salad for $ 6.50 is pretty unbeatable!
They also have a little mini market to pick up some basic Mexican goodies like hot sauce and homemade tortillas. You can even get some horchata mix for home too!
I try to stop through here when I’m in the area for some Mercado goodness.

Este restaurante sigue siendo aquí después de todos estos años. No ha cambiado. Todavía sirven los burritos deliciosos gigantes en un precio muy bueno. Amo la tradición.
The very first real Mexican gi-​normous burrito I ever tried to wrap my Canadian-​Filipino mouth around was from this restaurant. That was after college, when engineers frequented this place to talk about that new gigantic 1MByte ROM, one of many, to be used for that Space Invader video game for a Pizza franchise — ooooh, imagine, 1 million bytes (what’s that, one photo?). What looks like the same engineers back then, were talking about ‘aps’ for iPhone today, in the same unchanged Mexican restaurant. Back then, there was Fab14 Signetics, at the corner of Wolf and Evelyn. Now, there are condos there… but don’t tell them that microchip fabs usually store Boron or Arsenic in underground containers, where their apartment now stands. But I’m sure the builders cleaned that up. Sure.
One thing that DID NOT change was this family owned restaurant. The technology may have changed, the community around it may have changed, the economy may boomed, then crashed, then boomed, then crashed, and crashed… but the restaurant still looks and feels like that same Mexican mini-​mart, where you get served authentic Mexican dishes. The kitchen hadn’t even changed… you could always see the kitchen, and you know what? It looks exactly the same today. Droid reigning supreme today? But when MS-​DOS was THE OS of choice, the kitchen looked exactly the same. Kitchen revision1 rules.
I loved this place so much back then, that I actually packed 10 burritos to go, took on a flight to Canada during a Thanksgiving break, and found out that burritos turn into soggy pasty rolls after long flights. Oh well.
This has got to be the only authentic Mexican restaurant around (and no, a Mexican mini-​mart is not at all fancy) where the lady on the cashier was probably the same little girl goofing around when I first stumbled into this place xxxx years ago. The hum of English (because Sili Valley engineers are techie-​talking in English-​techie-​talk) for a very Mexican place, is also unique.
Well, what can I say, but «Quisiera el burrito gigante por favor, con el chile verde, una poca salsa caliente, con un poco de arroz, algunas habas y una poca salsa. También, quisiera que una botella de Jarritos bebiera por favor. Comer para aqui, por favor»