Tony’s Restaurant

Oh my God, best breakfast burrito I have ever had. Don’t let this little shack next to the Shell gas station fool you. You better come hungry the burrito is as big as your head!

Tony and his family have a wonderful restaurant, great food, and great service. They all greet you and make you feel invited.

Delicious! Stopped in our way from Crested Butte to Colorado Springs — we will make this a frequent occurrence. Great chips & salsa. Machaca breakfast was delicious. Green chile smothered beef burrito was great too. Good iced tea. All served by Tony himself! Thanks for the great meal — we’ll be back.

Good diner style breakfast for a great price! Friendly folks making authentic Mexican style dishes as well as the typical egg, bacon hash brown dishes. Convenient location at the junction of 50 and 285.

This place is awesome — an annual favorite on our drive to/​from Telluride — you can’t miss with the carne asada or al pastor tacos.

Great food! Great people!!! We will definitely be back :-)

Great food. Fresh, fast, and the price is right! Perfect for a quick lunch during work or driving through. Thanks Tony!

Loved it! Mas authentico family run Mex eaterie with little ambiance but great food. Friendly staff including, I assume. Tony who came out of the kitchen to be sure we were happy. Gringo dishes also available.

Great triple play fajitas. Super friendly staff. Be careful of the short hours on some days.
Our friends from Salida took us here after a day of working on the ranch. It felt like it was right at home after that kind of work. Good portions. Down home atmosphere.

What a great find! Tony was friendly and authentic which just added to the finely tuned tastes of the food. Tacos Al Pastor were great! Very simple, but the rub on the pork and the roasted pepper salsa made this one of the best taco dishes I’ve come across. The pork green chile enchiladas were wonderful and not something I have found elsewhere. This will be THE stop for our travels between Denver and Crested Butte.

Tony’s is a somewhat lonesome roadhouse style restaurant on the «outskirts» of tiny Poncha Springs. It’s a good stop if you’re headed west toward Monarch Pass on U.S. 50 or south on U.S. 285, because it’s just about the last restaurant for dozens of miles going in those directions.
Tony’s menu is mostly Mexican, with some American stuff thrown onto the menu for good measure. On the day we were there, Tony himself was the only guy on the floor – his wife was apparently cooking in the back – and he had his hands full with all of the ten or eleven tables in the restaurant. He forgot our drink orders for quite awhile, but when he arrived with them he more than made up for it with his unnecessarily profuse apologies, as well as with his genuine friendliness during the rest of our visit.
The al pastor in my quesadillas was succulent and spicy, just the way you want it to be. It was also plentiful. This was very simple Mexican food – no bells and whistles at Tony’s – but very satisfying just the same.
3.5 stars, rounded up.
N.B. For what it’s worth, the wife would disagree with my rating. She thought her plate of vegetarian Mexian food was very mediocre. But she’s not writing this review!

Great easy Mexican. They close at 4 and we arrived at 3:55. They accommodated us nicely and didn’t make a fuss that we walked in right before closing. We can here for a smaller bite to eat but left stuffed. The food was great and the service was wonderful. Defintiely not a place for the atmosphere but the food makes up for it!

We moved to Colorado from Phoenix and were used to some very good Mexican food. We never figured we would be able to find Mexican food to compare here in the Salida/​Poncha Springs area. However, we were wrong! Tony’s has become our favorite place to go, especially on Thursday’s when, if they can find chiles to their satisfaction, they make Chile Relleno’s. Their breakfast steak tacos smothered in the Green Chile are AWESOME as well as their Tacos Al Pastor and the Carne Asada Tacos. The Posole they make on Saturdays is a delight. I have heard their hamburgers are really good, but, it is hard for me to get one when I love their Mexican food so much! I love this little family-​run restaurant! You can tell they put their heart and soul into their cooking!

Very tasty! Very economical! Very friendly! Very convenient!

Good Tacos, but difficult to find it when its open.

Middle of nowhere but very impressed. Excellent spiced pork tacos. Great salsa. Definitely authentic.

My girlfriend and I were on our way to an awesome weekend in the Black Canyon when we stopped for gas in Pancho Springs at the station next door to Tony’s Restaurant. We were starting to get a hungry but traveling with dogs and wanting to make miles made it near impossible to sit down and have a meal somewhere, so we were about to open some peanuts when we noticed Tony’s. The sign said Mexican and American food so I took a shot and went in to check it out. Wise decision!
We were going to be eating in the car so I was looking for something easy and not too messy. The menu is mostly Mexican but they also have lots of diner type items. I settled on a couple of cheeseburgers with fries. A very nice young man took my order and then went to the kitchen and hollered «Mom, two cheeseburgers with fries!». I knew right then the odds were good that we were in for a decent meal. Toasted buttery bun, nicely cooked patty, American cheese melted just right, and all the fresh veggies you could ask for. The fries were hot and crispy, just the way we all like them. They were out of packets of ketchup and mustard so they hooked us up with some small containers of each. A cool move that worked out great because we used the ketchup for a couple of other meals while we were camping.
The place was well kept and had a good overall vibe. It seemed like most of the tables in there were eating Mexican food, so I’m guessing it’s pretty good. Maybe the next time I pass through town I’ll stop and give it a try!

We needed a place to eat between long stretches of open road on our way from Leadville to Pagosa Springs in July last year so we stopped at the junction of roads which is Poncha Springs (near Salida). It seemed like the few restaurants in town were all closed but Tony’s was open. Good thing for us since it really hit the spot. The place was too busy for our group of 6 to eat inside so we ate on a picnic table outside. Fine with us since it was a great day and a nice breeze and some mountains in the distance that looked like they were getting rained on. Tacos al Pastor were fantastic as well as enchiladas supremas, burritos and everyone loved their food. Service was very good. Fun time. Tony’s is a great Mexican food oasis for road travelers, definitely need them on the Unilocal map.