Tacos La Bala

Coffee is fresh and the breakfast was good for the price. Look forward to trying their lunch or dinner.

Hands down my most favorite taco joint that serves authentic Mexican Tacos. Absolute best and spiciest salsa that does not play. Heads up though this place is super tiny and has limited tables and parking. It’s counter service and a quick bite to eat kinda place.

Best hole in the wall by far! The orders take a while, but it’s worth it. Anytime I want tacos, which is A LOT. This is the first place that comes to mind.

After reading Unilocal reviews I decided to give this place a try. The restaurant looks kinda iffy from the outside but inside it’s clean. I dragged my husband with me and we both decided on the barbacoa tacos. And they were delicious! The barbacoa isn’t greasy and everything is made fresh. The green sauce in the bottle isn’t too spicy. Not bad at all and the best part is it was only $ 18.02. I’ll definitely be coming back for some good tacos.

Best tacos in town no doubt! I’ve tried many places but none come close! Full of flavor!!!

I really can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said. The tacos are soooo good, My favorite is the barbacoa…

Esta lugar es excelente, solo un detalle y no quiero hacer esto cuestion de razas, soy salvadoreño y nosotros llamamos mondongo a lo que los mexicanos llaman menudo, la chica que a estado atentienfo alli me quedó viendo como que era extraterrestre cuando pregunte por sopa de mondongo, debería de saber que. Houston es una ciudad diversa, y no hacer sentir a la gente como que somos ignorantes, quien tiene la obligación de educarse es ella por que esta sirviendo al publico

After reading a few reviews this morning, I was inspired to give this place a shot. Very good! I’ve never been to Mexico, so I don’t know what true authentic Mexican food tastes like but a lot of reviewers say this is THE place. And I agree! It is very good and tasty. I had the chicken and beef tacos. Both were good! The menu and entire restaurant is in Spanish, but that’s fine with me because I’m learning Spanish now. And the employees know English, so I didn’t feel like there was a language barrier. The staff were very professional and polite, acknowledging me as I entered their business. I recommend this place, although it is next to a sketchy corner store in a sketchy building in a sketchy area. If you’re coming here during the dark hours, I’d advise you to be careful as in any place in the city of Houston! Good restaurant though! :)

This place is GOOOOOOOOOD !!! I mean GOOD !!! the food its amazing …
The tacos taste just like I am eating in Mexico City…

Mexican street food for sure = love!
One Sunday afternoon, I decided to find menudo (due to a horrible, horrible hangover). Looked up Unilocal and found this place. La Bala looks dangerous on the outside and shares the building with a liquor store (so… yes, a bit ghetto lol) but the food more than makes up for it!
Check it out, you won’t regret it :)

best tacos In the Southwest Period. good Fast Service. food always Fresh. pastor And Fajita are great

The tacos are still my fav here. The tongue and fajita beef are top notch. With nothing but little chopped onion and cilantro in some fresh corn tortillas they are about the most authentic Mexican tacos I have had in Houston. Cheap too!
This trip I branched out and got the $ 4.50 burrito. The fajita beef was the same lovely spiced seasoned chopped beef in the tacos but with that creamy white Mexican cheese and lettuce all wrapped tightly in a flour tortilla. It ain’t tiny, I’ll give them that! It’s a beautiful thing…
Cold side, warm side… all in a big ol’ mouthful. I would so get one of these to go and take it home for some football watchin’ this winter. I’ll grab a couple tacos too just for an appetizer.
This was our 3^rd trip here since we discovered the little place a couple weeks back. We love it. I think they have beer and sangria but whenever I can get a cold Mexican Coke or a Topo Chico, I’ll pick one of those.
Order at the counter, English on one side of the menu/​Spanish on the other. Cash only. Few table cramped into the place so if you come at a busy time you may not get a seat. It’s clean and well lit. Don’t be freaked by the location. This place rocks!
It doesn’t hurt to know a little food ordering Spanish but it’s not required.

This place is amazing, I do not know how they do that but it has a 100% authentic Mexican flavor. The tacos are delicious, and the menu also includes the tortas, quesadillas, burritos, sopes, gorditas, with different dishes, such as fajita, chicken barbacoa, chicharron, desebrada, etc. My favorite dish is the big fajita quesadillas «Quesadilla Tampiqueña» with grilled onion, avocado and cilantro.
Nice staff, small place but very clean, good prices. Definitely come back and will recommend this place.

Excellent authentic taqueria! The tacos, gorditas, sopes, tortas have always been perfect. My son likes the milinesa platter, very thin chicken fried steak, I usually get a couple of tacos and a sope, asada or cecina, I have tried the tortas and gorditas which are just as good as the tacos. The cashier usually speaks English ok but the menus are in English, mostly, on the backside and you can just point to what you want. If you want authentic Mexican street/​taqueria food I would highly recommend this place.

I was craving some authentic Mexican food so my friend and I ventured outside of our usual Mexican restaurants. I got the deshebrada torta. It was really juicy with a puddle of electric red juice on the plate. Once it touched my skin, the juice turned orange… I wonder what spice that is. The meat was kind of tough but I’m not the biggest meat eater. The lettuce, tomato and avo were the perfect balance.
There were 3 sauces on the table. One of which was a homemade tomatillo salsa with real avocado’s in it! Yum! The other were a green sauce and red sauce.
My friend got 3 fajita taco’s with the typical onion, cilantro, and lime. He couldn’t finish the third because they give a hefty amount!
I also got the horchata, it was a little on the sweet side. However, it did taste good with my torta! I’ll be back to try the tacos!

Excellent Street Food style tacos, period.
They have great Tortas, their chicharron is awesome.
If you are a fan of Taco truck tacos, this place is for you.

Average this out with my previous review, because this is based on a bad experience there over this past weekend. All of the good things of my previous reviews basically stand, but with a few negative additions below.
Basically, several mistakes were made. The first is that I got the wrong meat in my tacos. I asked for some of fajita and some of the trompo, and unfortunately they gave me all fajita instead of a few of each. Additionally, the meat was full of gristle, so it wasn’t as good as it normally is. Another problem was with the barbacoa, which was extremely greasy. I’ve had good barbacoa in Mexico, and I’ve never seen it as greasy down there as it was here.
The final bad thing was the jamaica. For those of you that take out the trash, and leave the trash can sitting out in the sun, you know that smell you get when you take off the lid? Water that smell down and put it in a drink, and that’s basically it. It’s like they let the jamaica leaves sit in water to rot or something before cooking it. I don’t really know, but it was actually disgusting and while they did provide an alternative drink, it was so disgusting that I doubt I’ll go back to Tacos La Bala for a few weeks.

Summer is officially here yet the allure of hot tacos never fails to persist. Since this stretch of Bellaire Boulevard is home to a lot of Latin Americans, it was a natural outgrowth that some great and not-​so-​great places would spring up to offer a reminder of home via food.
Having read Tom W’s review as well as the other 4 reviews so far, I decided to try this place out. (I’ve actually visited twice now.) Set in a new large strip shopping center, the spacious clean eatery has two order windows to queue up. The fluent bilingual staff take your order, you pay your cash, and they issue you a pager common to the likes of Chili’s or Applebee’s. Meanwhile, you take a seat at any of the clean tables and can watch any of the LCDs tuned to either a Spanish-​language soap opera (first time) or to a World Cup match (second time).* Each table is preset with a roll of paper towels, squirt bottles of red salsa, green salsa, and a mocajete filled with a chunky green salsa slurry.
Tacos are made to order so expect about a 10-​minute wait before the pager goes off. I ordered 3 tacos, all on corn tortillas: al pastor, fajita de pollo, and avocado. They come fully dressed with cilantro and onions and a wedge of lime unless you specify otherwise. Each one was $ 1.45 and a can of Diet Coke will set you back 85 centavos.
Results: The avocado was fantastically buttery but even better when I slid a chunk off to fit in some chicken fajita from the other taco. Dollops of the fiery green salsa improved it to a higher level. The chicken fajita one sang with the squeeze of lime and green salsa while the al pastor one excelled when paired with the red habiniero-​laced salsa.
All in all, this place is the real deal: Lots of Latin Americans eagerly chowing down on these tacos tells volumes of how the community rates these meals. If you go, don’t mind the Asian dude eating tacos (that’s just me). Heck, pull up a chair.
* Do I have to tell you that I was more intrigued by the Spanish telenovela on the first visit than the World Cup soccer match during the second? Not because I’m not sports-​minded (Cameroon lost to Denmark) but the soap opera had lots of scenes with hot shirtless men in it. Who couldn’t love that? As for story: who needs to know story?

THESE ARE REAL MEXICAN TACOS!
Stopped by here to grab some breakfast on a saturday. Place was completely dead, there were only like 3 to 4 groups of people, granted I was here kind of early though. The location is brand new so the restaurant is very nice and clean, far from the typical hole in the wall establishments that the area is known for. There are a bunch of flat screens on the wall playing the world cup which is nice to watch while waiting for the food.
I got dos tacos de barbacoa con tortillas de harina.
Which means 2 barbacoa tacos on flour tortillas and they were delicious. The quality of the meat was kind of skeptical, it had some fat in it, but overall the taste was fantastic and the tortillas were hand made.
Overall a solid addition to the booming area and I’ll be checking it out quite often.

Taco’s La Bala reminds me of growing up in the Valley — It’s a place where gringos aren’t treated like cultural pioneers, but rather like minor annoyances only delaying the real customers from ordering. sigh. I’m only slightly kidding.
In all honesty, Tacos La Bala is great, it’s on Bellaire between Chimney Rock and HIllcroft. It’s a no frills place where you order at the counter and pick up your food. The Conchinta Pibil is the best and the tortas aren’t half bad either. Just recently I was able to get 10 tacos, an order of nachos and a beer for $ 20. No joke. And 3 tacos are enough for one person, but if you want to man up — go for 4.
Interesting story — I go to Taco’s La Bala and order several tacos to go and a beer (for the wait). The man who takes my order, who might be the only guy in the establishment that speaks English outside of myself, begins to prepare my order off to the side. All of a sudden he comes back and says, ‘Excuse me sir, I can’t give you your beer to go.’

Have been thinking about going here for some time, but always get seduced by the new Pico’s Bakery and can’t quite make it another 100 yards towards Hillcroft. Today was the day. I was taking friends to the airport and thought we should have some tacos for the road, so I stopped in to get some …
Entering, the first thing I noted was that the place was filled with latin families having breakfast. Always a very good sign. Bowls of red-​stained pozole, tacos, menudo on the table and everyone was all smiles. Also, on the table were a set of bottles of a mossy green and a ochre red salsa. I am liking this place already. Minimal décor, but clean as a pin and pleasant.
The counter is set up behind glass in an odd «greenhouse» but the lady at the window could not have been more pleasant. Not a lot of english, but hey, I speak spanish and it’s tacos, so who cares? I ordered a couple of the machicado (eggs with dried beef) and eggs with potatoes and chorizo on homemade flour tortillas for me and some plain eggs/​potato tacos for my friends (they are going to Boston, so guess why they don’t want spice or salsa?).
The order was processed quickly and delivered in a bag with lots of napkins and little bottles of the salsa. I got to the car and pre-​doctored mine with salsa, lime and made sure there was plenty of cilantro and onions. There were. The green salsa was a nice roasted poblano salsa with a deep flavor and a bit of a bit. The Machacado was well flavored and the dried, salted beef managed to be both soft and crispy at the same time. The chorizo and potato was ok. I would go back for another machacado gladly.
My friends said their tacos were fine, but really… eggs, potatoes, tortillas! That is like having a 4 year old tell you that their chicken mcnuggets were memorable. Please.
I have a copy of their menu and saw many items I want to go back and try… certainly barbacoa, but also the newly chic cochinita pibil and lengua. Items are available throughout the day and into the evening and include the usual tortas, burritos and quesadillas.
Did I mention that nothing is over $ 4.95?
Can’t wait to go back.