Tortas Locas

A great place to eat with family and fiends. The food is great, very different than what we find in the area. I truly recommend this place to eat. The service is also great and the dining area is very clean!!! Yea the prices are hight but the potion of the food is pretty decent for what you pay for. Great place!!!

Average. Nothing outstanding, place looks clean, we were greeted right away. I tried the Cubana torta, it was ok, but was lacking extra ingredients and flavor. It literally had half or everything, and a tiny, hardly visible slice of avocado and onion. Overal it was ok, but won’t make this a place to visit often.

A friend had been wanting to go for a while, and I’m always up to try new places. The location was fair, the store front nice, but the inside was poorly arranged and felt cluttered. The menu board, while being conveniently in English and Spanish, was so shoved together, it was hard to see what they had, and probably could have been done better on a laminated, one sheet menu, with each language on either side.
The selections were a bit limited. If you like lots of pork, this is a great place for you, since they had lots of variations of the same thing. We ordered: She got the chicharone quesadilla and Ham/​Pinapple torta, while I went for a traditional Carne asada torta with a mushroom quesadilla.
Here’s the fun part. You can order a quesadilla… but the cheese is extra. That’s right kids, a Quesa (cheese) dilla (tortilla) that you have to pay extra to get cheese in. Without the cheese, it’s basically a huge Taco. Even the clerk gave me the «I just work here» shrug, and I paid for my cheese like an adult.
The food is mediocre, on the greasy side, and not all that impressive, the soda machine wasn’t kept up… I went for orange soda, and it was only soda water… I did ask if the orange cost extra ;), and both our seats were dirty and sticky for reasons I would rather not know about.
If it were a Mom and Pop place, I would probably let it slide, but this is a chain. Don’t spend money in a chain that isn’t that great, when you can find little places with amazing food elsewhere. Life is too short to pay for cheese

I’ve seen this place multiple times I finally broke down and went in. With a name like tortas locals I either expected huge tortas or awesome tasting ones. I think they are average tortas but as seen in my picture it lacked onions and advacados. Not a place I’ll probably come back to.

Well I finally paid this place a visit after passing by it for at least six months maybe more. They have a wide range of menu options for Tortas. I chose the Asada. While looking around inside they were clean and organized and had a high tech register. They also had a fridge full of bottled soft drinks. Pooch pure sugar in my Coke. The food came out quick and the portions looked large. Friendly service and quality ingredients. The only down side was Where’s The Beef? The steal bits and I mean bits were tiny. I’m used to healthy portions of sliced steak on my Asada Tortas. If they start getting more generous in the beef I would hive them another star and my repeat business.

Stopped in for a quick lunch but got right behind a huge take out. I decided to wait and was completely satisfied. I had three soft corn tacos with spicy pork, Mexican rice and beans. Total with tip was just over $ 9. which was a bit more than I expected whats an extra buck or two. Owner was very friendly and the establishment was spotless.

Carne asada tacos are Delicious! Better than tortas. Tortillas seem to be made right there. This is the real stuff. !! –Life changing experience-​add avocado and lettuce to your tacos!

Fast. Courteous. Good value. Daughter and I enjoyed a coup, e different tortas. Delicious and fresh. We will be back.

First Torta and I must say we liked it! Good prices and good portion sizes. Kitchen and dining area looks clean. Will be back again soon try something different.

Been looking for a place that has good tortas like the ones in Mexico City. This place is good my husband is Puertorican and he loved his torta. We tried the CrazyTorta it has huge and the chocoflan was big enough for 3 people.

The first time I have ever experienced FALSE ADVERTISEMENT. Both the wall and paper menus show the price of #16 as $ 6.49, so about $ 7.25 after tax. When I went to sign the receipt it was a total of $ 8.75. She claimed it was extra for cheese but I never asked nor did she ask if I would like to add anything. After refunding the charge and re ringing it they still wanted $ 8.20. She refused to sell it to me at the advertised price because the computer said differently. I really enjoyed this place the first time I came here but I can’t come back to a place that isn’t honest.

Ugh, sooo disappointed… I was soo curious bc of their commercials and the way their tortas looked… on tv… but this place is freakin gross! I’m willing to pay for good food BUT the meat (which to me was mixed in with chorizo which the mgr denied) hardly had any on my torta which the meat was dry. The only thing that was ok was my dads torta de hamon and the rolled chicken tacos which the chicken also was dry as well DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY, TRUST ME MY MOTHER AND I BOTH ARE MEXICAN & WE COOK WAAAY BETTER but like to bond over food as most Mexicans do ;)…Taqueria el Sabor in Tacoma across from T.C.C is good and so is Taqueria El Antojo off of Orchard St. next to Little Ceasars is good!

Tortas Locas is a fun stop for Mexican food enthusiasts. I wish it was closer to my house! They specialize in DF style tortas, which is to say Districto Federal — aka Mexico City — sandwiches. In these tortas the meat is fried — a gut busting decadence I appreciate.
Reasonably priced for such large sandwiches; combo tortas are $ 8 to 10. I tend to eat a «sencillas torta», which is to say a more simple torta of fried steak ($ 7), but sometimes I cannot resist the Loca Torta which has steak, pork leg, chorizo and a hot dog!
Other menu items are fine, but not the best in town. The prices are competitive. A 5 tacos platter is $ 8. Kids menu is a steal with items $ 4 and under. Quesadillas less than $ 5. One big letdown though: the horchata is not very good.
The small space is clean with seats for about 30 people. It has a very casual, picnic feel to it — good for a quick lunch or dinner. The staff is friendly and helpful. The menu is posted in Spanish and English.
Definitely worth a try for the culinary explorer!

Was going to go to the Phở place 2 doors down when I saw this place and decided I really wanted a torta for lunch! Quickly read previous Unilocal reviews and decided on La Crazy Torta. The guy at the cash register (also the cook) was really nice and quickly took my order and started it. There was only 1 person in front of me but my 1 Torta still took 21 minutes to get…
The torta was HUGE! enough to easily feed for 3 people (for $ 11). It was good but not great… the girls however really liked them (they loved the egg…) If I was dying for a torta I’d stop here but definitely not the best I’ve had.

My husband and I tried this place last year. Being Mexican, I can be very picky. I wasn’t truly impressed and neither was my husband. The pricing was good, and the service was ok. I guess it wasn’t what I expected. My cousin used to have a taco truck and I remember how delicious those tortas were. They tortas were just a little flavour less for our taste. I was a little disappointed because I really wanted to like this place.

I went here on a lark a few months back. It was a rainy Tacompton day, something about the unassuming face of this place made me think hidden gem… or botulism. I’m glad to report I survived just fine, and discovered one heck of a good sandwich.
As I said, rainy afternoon, adventurous attitude, I tried the Cubana Torta on my first visit. I liked the sandwich, and it’s layers of steak, sausage, pork leg, ham, churiso, and cheese went well between the large, fluffy rounds of bread. However, somehow I felt all the flavors overloaded the sandwich and nothing really stood out. I enjoyed the sandwich, but not with as much enthusiasm as I had hoped.
My second visit, on another rainy afternoon, I went for the simpler Toluquena Torta, and I’m glad I did. It came quickly, and was just as advertised. A layer of pork leg, some melty mozzarella, and a sprinkling of spicy churizo, plus a few delicious slices of avocado to help round out the deliciousness between the buns.
It was on my second visit that I fell for the sauces. The staff (very helpful and kind I might add) was thoughtful enough to bring me a cup of fresh-​made green pepper sauce. Normally dispensed from squeeze bottles, cold, this was a fresh batch and still warm. YUM! If you happen in at the right time I recommend asking for it hot. It has a bit more of a spicy kick when it’s hot, and the freshness is undeniably delicious. I’m also a fan of the red sauce, which had a chipotle flavor to it, and went well with the sandwich as well. (I ate the second half of my sandwich with a mix of both… indulgent? Yes, but highly recommended).
As I mentioned before, the staff is helpful and patient, leaving me nothing to complain about but the rain…

I had to downgrade a star. Some of my coworkers were down on this place, and the last time I went the same sandwich I ordered was not that tasty. Perhaps I was just impressed by the sheer size of the sandwich the first time. So sad … I was so excited to finally find a place with good Mexican food in Tacoma.

This place has potential it just needs to fix a couple of issues. First the prices are good for the size of the portion you get, the downside is that although those portions are generous they are missing flavor. The carne asada lacks flavor and the tortas are greasy. The food in general needs an infusion of better taste. The salsas are also not great.
My other gripe is that they take way too long to prepare the food. I’ve been here 3 times with different parties. And each time they took forever to make our order. The last time it was just two of us with two orders and it took them 45 mins to get our orders ready. Once they fix those issues then I would change my rating but for now 2 stars is all I can give them.

The tortas… they’ve gone wild! The prices! The portion sizes! The crazy things they contain! It’s all gone crazy, and you need to try it.
Nestled in a little shop on South Tacoma Way, Tortas Locas is the 4^th store of its kind to open (others in Burien, Seattle, and Renton). Sidewalk signs boast big mexican sandwiches, their chef uniformed frog adorns the window, and once you step inside large menus list most of their options in both Spanish and English.
Now, as the name indicates, their signature tortas are crazy. I decided that if there’s been a time to get loco since last year’s Four Loko ban, this is it. I ordered the CRAZIEST OF THE CRAZY TORTAS. This fellow is combination torta #2, the priciest item on the menu ($ 10) and has two names depending on which language you speak: La Crazy Torta in english or Torta La Crazy in espagnol. No matter how it’s said, I have the feeling you get the idea… this thing is crazy!
A quick wait and this monster was brought to my table. I don’t use the term monster in jest… the sandwich was bigger than my face… and I have a remarkably big head. Look inside and it’s a veritable fiesta of meat. Two different animals, five meat varietals (breaded steak, chorizo, ham, pork leg, and pork head cheese), two cheeses (mozzarella and «mexican») and an egg and avocado thrown on top in case all the rest wasn’t enough for you. I finished half and am still full while writing this review seven hours later.
I also picked up an horchata while I was there. It was notably gritty and watery… far too sane for this establishment and not recommended.
Go crazy. Go Tortas Locas.