Tortilleria Reyes

Good authentic Mexican food at a fair price. I usually get the lengua tacos and birria tacos sometimes I’ll get a chile relleno. Sometimes there can be a language barrier when ordering. If you want chips and salsa better order them cause you won’t be brought them when you sit down. This is not your run of the mill Mexican restaurant it’s more like a market with a cook lol.

Nope. Wanted this to be the one, but it wasn’t to be. Great authentic market atmosphere, smelled fabulous, and a line of customers at the counter. Looked promising… But, and we only tried two different burritos, flavor was sorely lacking. In addition, my husband’s burrito leaked a good quarter cup of «juice». Possibly we are spoiled after years of life in the Central Valley of California. To each his own.

Very good food! The enchiladas are amazing! The people are very nice as well.
One time we went in there just after closing and they still made our order. I’m not saying go in there after they’re closed but it was nice of them to still help us when they didn’t have to :)

High hopes when we tried a couple of burritos. We really wanted a «go to» place for a wonderful Mexican food experience.
This was not it, the tortillas themselves were excellent, but my chile verde burrito was mostly beans, (and I love beans but not this much) and husbands tacos had very little filling and an off taste. Did like the salsa, but will keep looking for «the place».

This place is small and usually not very busy, but their food is delicious. Great mexican food, much more authentic than most places. I would not hesitate to recommend Tortilleria Reyes!

Legit Mexican food to the ‘T.’ I had the carne asada tortas and it was incredible. Same price as anything you’d get at a fast food chain premium sandwich, but so much better in quality.
Authentic and unique. Even a grocery store and what appeared to be maybe a deli (?) in the back.

Cinco de Mayo is coming. Even more important in my husband’s view, so is the Kentucky Derby. In addition to Mint Juleps to toast the feature race, we always have Mexican food after. Maybe that’s because we went to the Derby when we were young and broke and the only place we could afford to eat was a good little Mexican cantina. A tradition was born.
As aside, if good Mexican food in Louisville seems puzzling, consider the people who do the hard work of exercising the horses and maintaining the stables often have Mexican heritage.
Planning the menu for our Derby celebration, today we were off to Tortilleria Reyes. Purchases started with their incredible corn tortillas. Made fresh daily, and they freeze beautifully, a roughly 6″ tall stack of tortillas, about four dozen, was under $ 3.00! And we knew we could also find some other needed items there, like Mexican chocolate and big bags of limber dried pasillas. (Not an oxymoron, fresh dried chiles should be pliable.)
Although late afternoon, the kitchen (and bakery) aroma was so enticing, we oordered some adobada tacos. The daily special, they were only $ 1.25 each. Delectable and served with a little bit of fiery hot salsa and a lime wedge to help balance the flavors.
How these good people manage to produce such delicious things for such a low price to their customers is a mystery. I am also grateful that they never make my failure to to speak Spanish a stumbling block for me to br able to shop in their store.
For all of this, I say gracias to the people at Tortilleria Reyes.
THIS N THAT:
1) A little hard to find, it is in a strip mall storefront on Division, not far from Goody’s chocolate workshop.
2) Fully accessible from parking in and throughout.
3) Tortilleria Reyes appears twice on Unilocal.You’ll see similarly great reviews at both Unilocal pages.

Really good panaderia and tortas. The tortillas are fresh and authentic. You can order food and eat in the small dining area. Try the horchata.