Hood River Taqueria

«Mexican Food for White People» …I should probably just stop there. Tasty (most things covered in cheese are), not a thing has any real level of picante hotness to it, nothing remotely adventurous (huitlacoche or nopales anybody??). As someone else said, I’m pretty sure almost everything here comes from a can or a bag (sauces, salsas, vegetables, etc.).
Vegetarians: A few decent options — mushroom & spinach enchiladas, the most interesting — no pork fat in their beans (thank you!).
Great outdoor seating for drinking huge, cheap chalices of margaritas in the summer. Very little indoor seating for the winter. The staff is super nice, and the price to quantity of food ratio is large. Decent place to bring friends or family who… like to know what they are getting. If there was another more authentic or interesting Mexican restaurant in the area, I might refer you to it… but as far as I can tell, this is the standard.
Pro tip: Making your own home-​made sauces and salsas can take otherwise mundane ethnic food and launch it into phenomenal territory. If this place did THAT, I’d want to eat there possibly every day.

Great place for families and the food was delicious and was so authentic. Outdoor seating was very pleasant with shaded tables water features and open space. Will probably come back tomorrow for lunch too! Kids loved the quesadillas. Dad loved the Cadillac Margarita! Friendly and prompt service

Great service and great food. Particularly like the tacos. Very authentic and simple cuisine. Awesome egg dishes for breakfast. Don’t miss out on getting one of the Margaritas, too!

Hey, it’s not Tucson. But for Hood River it’s better then what’s here. Nice patio setting. Decent menu with typical Mexican fare. No mole or speciality meats. Chips are blah, salsa is weak. Again locals and tourists prolly never had good mex food. Beans lack flavor, might as well be eating poi. Rosarita from the can would be better. Food served the purpose. Service okay. Typical bottle mex beer, but with local Full Sail Amber on tap. It’s not ghetto but it’s not a WOW either!

Couldn’t have asked for friendlier staff! The food was great, we loved the beautiful patio seating, and the service was quick and helpful. Thanks, guys!

My husband and I had lunch there this week and enjoyed the patio seating, margaritas and food was fresh and tasted good. Service was very good!

Sub-​par taqueria with overpriced food. The horchata is too sweet and the rice is too dry. The servers and owners are nice and earn their tips. Seems like they base their business on quantity over quality. The salsa is watered down and lacks in flavor.
The tongue tacos are OK.

Once i Ordered a Chimmichonga and it was just chicken in a wrap, nothing else inside but bar that i have enjoyed every meal there immensely including asking for extra which they did.

Do you like good food? Do you like good people? Do you like great food prepared for you by great people? Then this is the spot for you. The Carnitas was amazing. The Margarita? Giant and delicious. Pork Tamale? Probably the best I have ever had. And for sure the best Guacamole I have EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
You need to have an event catered? They do that too and at a very fair price, not to mention they don’t try to take advantage of you. My wife and I had the Hood River Taqueria cater our wedding. Our guests could not stop raving about the food and let me tell you, I had some left over Tamales and those bad boys are in my freezer RIGHT NOW waiting to be devoured.
If you are looking for great service, amazing food, and the best Guac ever, this is the spot. If you hate yourself and desire to be unhappy forever, don’t come, because you will leave happy. No matter what.

Amazing food! Love the pineapple special tacos (la parlor?), wonderful and never found anything like it. Yum! Great service, friendly and clean atmosphere. Will visit again in summer to further the experience. A new favorite! Salsa to die for.

Chile rellano, delicious. Superb tacos. Friendly service. Great place to eat, one of my favorite places to eat in town.

Just Okay. Chips had no salt, salsa tasted like pizza sauce with cilantro added. Carnitas tacos had good flavor but other choices were mediocre. The horchata had hint of good flavor but seemed watered down.

Beautiful Service. Wonderful shrimp, beef, chips & salsa. Outdoor seating. Winning !! #hoodriver #mexican #food #service #music

This place is ok — pretty standard local taqueria fare. Great smells coming from the kitchen, but the food itself was average.
We had potato enchiladas, and tacos de pollo and carne asada. My recommendation: try something more-​adventurous on the menu. You’ll have a better chance of walking away happy.

Meh.
Great front porch, where everyone goes when the weather is nice. It’s just not the best mexican food in town (or outside of town.) It’s kinda «meh.» Smaller portions, too. My camerones a la diabla tasted like it was out of a can (I wasn’t in the kitchen– so I don’t know this for sure.) It just didn’t have that flavor/​spice authenticity that other mexican places have. I’ve given it a couple tries (it’s hard to say no to that sunny yard) and each time I’ve left a little bummed… like I almost had a great meal… but instead had one that was just «meh.»
Oh– and the salsa is just OK. And comes in ridiculously small cups. There’s a better Mexican place just right across the road on the other one way street going the other way. (You’ll see it.) There’s also a kick arse huge Mexican grocery down the road across from Rosauers. There’s other options all around. I wish this place would kick it up a notch– it wouldn’t have to do much to really turn it around and make it a great place. You can’t beat that location. It brings in people. Now you’ve just got to make the food a bit better.

We come here a lot in the summer, the outdoor seating is the best in Hood River (if you don’t need a view). The service is usually very friendly and speedy and the food is pretty good (although Puerto Angeles across the road is better). But boy did we run into a bad experience for lunch today.
First, we appreciate that Spring in the Gorge is the time for training new help, so we expect that — and we were not in a hurry.
Our first waitress did not seem to understand we wanted to share nachos and that we’d order an entrée shortly. That solved, another — clearly new — waitress came up to take our order. several minutes later, still a third waitress (trailed by the second waitress) asked to take our order. We told her we had just placed our order with the waitress standing right next to her. She thanked us and disappeared only to return 10 minutes later to tell us there was no order placed.
But, but, SHE took our order! Waitress 2 stood in stony silence. So, waitress 3 took our order.
And here’s where it got weird.
Several minutes later our chimichanga arrived. My wife and I shared it and immediately we both knew something was wrong. Now, we’ve eaten here a ton of times and have had great chimichangas before (although our son-​in-​law did have one several months back just like we just got). What we got was dry, shredded chicken with no seasoning stuffed into a fried shell.
We called the waitress over and she told us (having worked there 7 years) that this was how they made chimichangas — dry, shredded, unseasoned chicken). I told her that I had ordered them before and this was not it. She assured me that I had not, indeed, ordered them before, that I must have ordered something else.
Clearly she was not interested in hearing that the chef was perhaps having an off day. So, we finished what we could and left.
We’ll be back to enjoy the outdoors and just hope the chef got a better night’s sleep and that the waitresses are better trained.

YUM. Our favorite place to stop in Hood River. Some of THEE best Mexican food. Great service– a family feel in here. Delicious salsa, complimentary with tortilla chips. We look forward to stopping in here on our long drives through 84.

Idk if we came on a bad day, but, the burritos we ordered we terrible… Literally made all the of us sick after eating here. The ingredients we all either canned, or left under a heat lamp all day. I didn’t know Mexican could go so wrong. Even taco bell is a leg up on those burritos…
Can’t speak for tacos here.
Service was ok
Prices are fair.
Sorry, hate giving bad readings, but, it was truly gross, and I eat ANYTHING

Either I never get authentic Mexican food or this place in the BOMB. Oh My Goodness. I knew it was going to be good when I couldn’t read the menu ;) It was all in Spanish and my Spanish is limited to «Taco» and «Burrito». Oh, and I know «Tamale.»
The salsa was just spicy enough and the chips fresh and crunchy. The service was quick, the portions perfect size (not too big not small) and the staff was helpful and friendly. I like my Mexican food flavorful and a little on the hot side but I don’t want to be blowing my nose constantly. The heat and spice in the dishes was absolutely perfect.
This is a place I will be coming to again next time I’m in the Hood River area.

Was recommended by a foodie friend who visits regularly.
Very cool to sit outside. Service was prompt. I was in and out within a half hour.
Thank you.
Ordered special and a beer. Great prices, would love to try more food choices. Nice and out of the way from the touristy part of Hood River.