Tacos El Rey

Very poor customer service, I found roaches in their chips, when I asked to talk to a manager they couldn’t find me one. Wouldn’t go back, specially with the chips.

Ok this place is a true little hole in the wall on Castroville Rd in the West Side of SA. I REALLY ENJOYED MYSELF. I have been there a few times and they are consistently great. Best TRUE refried beans in all SA! Yum Yum

Everything was delicious. The food came out hot. The Tea was sweeten perfectly. Customer Service was awesome. I will definately come back.

This restaurant is what my entire family calls «The Spot.» I’ve been going to this restaurant since I was a little girl and I’m close to a quarter of a century now. This restaurant is great! The food is awesome, the staff is always friendly and the owner is there almost every day sitting at left table, next to cash register.
I’ve had most of the specials but my favorite is and will always be the cheese enchilada plate with rice, no beans and two tortillas. Don’t get me wrong the beans are good but I love rice. They have a great chicken fried steak plate too. The best part of this restaurant is when our family finishes eating and we order delicious carrot cake or chocolate cake that the restaurant sells by the counter.
This restaurant is great!

The refried beans are so tasty. They remind me of how my grandpa used to make them. We got the buenos rancheros special. It came with eggs, bacon, refried beans and tortillas. The eggs were soft and fluffy scrambled. The bacon was crisp and did I mention the beans? The waitresses are very friendly and service is quick. My grandparents would take me here when I was little and now I get to take my boys.

Being back in San Antonio I wanted to make sure I had an opportunity to have some authentic Mexican food for breakfast before heading back to the big D. We drove to the West side of town with some friends this morning, and I was in heaven. I really wanted menudo, but it was $ 7 for a huge bowl… and since I always just eat the broth and hominy I figured I would pass so I would have room for tacos. I ordered a bean/​bacon taco and two barbacoa tacos. The refried beans were silky smooth and perfectly seasoned… definitely cooked with bacon grease by some little old Mexican lady who probably has been cooking forever. Scrumptious. I could have eaten the beans by themselves and been completely satisfied. The barbacoa was exceptional in the fact that it was not really fatty. While barbacoa is not a lean meat anyway, a lot of places leave too much fat in the meat and its a little gross. Not TER… these tacos had a ton of very lean barbacoa. My only problem though was that I am used to barbacoa tacos coming with lime, grilled onions, cilantro, etc to build my taco. These came with just meat and tortilla. Disappointing, however they brought all of the fixins (at no charge) when I asked for them. They also served their tacos on flour tortillas (blasphemy) and I am pretty sure they were not homemade. I still ate every last bight and then even went so far as to finish my friend’s chorizo and bean taco. Those beans must have had crack in them or something… I just couldn’t stop myself. Mmmm mmm mmm. On top of it all, I paid $ 6.82 for three very large tacos and bottomless coffee and this included my tip! Gotta love the West side…