Taqueria La Estrella

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We just went there again, and I had chicken enchiladas for the first time here. It was good! The price was very good for the serving size. Staff was friendly, and of course free salsa and chips is always a plus!

Ordered a Michelada, after drinking ½ my lip was bloody, the mug was badly chipped. They said the manager was not in. They did not even comp me my meal.

Great tasty super burritos. There’s definitely enough if not more to fill you up. Their rice water is also very good and fresh tasting. If you eat in, you get all you can eat chips and all access to the sauce table. There are little plastic dip size cups that allow you to package some sauce for to go orders too.

This restaurant is a hidden gem! It’s in a shopping center next to a few random places but the food is wonderful! I recommend going on a Friday night they have a mariachi band that is wonderful! They sing beautiful and are so personable it’s a great place to go to end your week… I love this place!

I came with very small expectations for this place. Set between a liquor store and a Laundromat in another dismal strip mall full of gang banger types on Stockton Boulevard (I guess they have to do their laundry too) it did not give me the best first impression.
Entering the Taqueria, it looked about like any other of the hundreds of taquerias in the Sacramento area. A sign on the door advertised nacho fries. Hmmmm (scratches head)!
After contemplating the menu for quite some times I decided to order what I usually order when I try a taqueria for the first time. I would like one carne asada taco, one carnitas taco, and one al pastor taco please with an order of «those» nacho fries. My girl friend ordered a chile rellanos dinner with a coke and I added a beer and the total still only came to $ 19.00. Food is cheap in the ghetto.
They do have a chips and salsa bar. The chips are kept warm and crispy and the salsas are worth fighting for.
My fries came covered with nacho cheese which might not sound that great but when I dipped them into the house made salsa all I could think of was «what a fricken wonderful combination. Then my street tacos came and I dumped more of that wonderful salsa on them. Give me another beer and shut the door, I have found my local taqueria spot.
This place is not decorated very fancy and there is nothing glamorous about the food. It is just serves some good down home Mexican food.
The Wizard says; check it out.

Yumm. Went between classes and got a pastor torta. It was delicious! Probably one of the better tortas I’ve had. It was pretty big and came out pretty quick. There’s also a salsa bar and free chips, but the chips were kinda greasy :/​I’ll be back to try other menu items.

Recommended by the mechanics doing maintenance on my car, I strolled over to Estrella’s. I gave them the Super Nachos test.
For a late afternoon, the place looked like it had been hit by a huge lunch rush hour. It took me several minutes to find a clean table to sit at.
The nachos arrived. 7-​Eleven grade cheese sauce on my nachos?! Let’s stop the review right here. I was unsuccessful at flagging down the ghetto bird (police helicopter) flying nearby. Help! These people stole my $ 4.99!
Not even recommended to the street walkers that tried to stop me along the way to this taqueria.

Just a quickie review to get it in the database… I just had lunch here with a group and it was very good – a cut above your typical independent little tacqueria/​Mexican restaurant. I had what they called Barbacoa de Res, chunks of beef in a light chile broth. It was actually closer to «carne en su hugo» (translates as «meat in it’s juice»). Barbacoa would be drier and steamed in banana leaves (Chipotle actually has very authentic barbacoa – go figure), but whatever you want to call it, it was very good! The others had tacos, and one person had fish soup, which was tasty, although a tad salty – which seems to common with a lot of Mexican restaurants – sometime I’d like to explore why that is.
The chips were fresh and salsas were very good – on a par with what you’d make at home (if you know what you’re doing, of course). The red salsa was from toasted guajillo chiles and had great flavor. The tomatillo salsa was very chunky with lots of tomatillo – not watered down like you find at La Favorita and their counterparts.
Their specialty is supposed to be Birria de Chivo, but it wasn’t ready yet for lunch on a Friday – might be more of a weekend thing. Check it out! I’ll definitely be back… it might be my new favorite little Mexican restaurant. I’m getting burnt out on La Favorita, and this is more like the real deal!