Tortilleria & Restaurant La Mexicana
2417 W Oak Ridge Rd, Orlando, FL, 32809
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Address :
2417 W Oak Ridge Rd
Orlando, FL, 32809 - Phone (407) 888-3531
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Opening Hours
- Mon :6:30 am - 10:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : Full Bar
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : Free
Has TV : Yes
Dogs Allowed : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
Categories
Mexican Cuisine
If you enjoy Taco Tuesday, then you have officially fallen in love with the Mexican Food. The main grain of Mexican cuisine is maize. Also known as corn, maize is grown for the past 9000 years after the crop was discovered by the people in Mayan civilization. Mexican empire flourished when they started growing beans, tomatoes, chili pepper, sweet potato and cactus. Till this date these ingredients are used in cooking authentic Mexican dishes and drinks.
Great use of spices, fresh chili pepper dishes like fajitas, tortilla chips, corn chips, salsa, chimichangas, burritos, nachos and quesadillas are invented in America. But when you are looking for authentic Mexican food then you must find a restaurant in the city that serves Rajas con Queso, Garbanzo in a Guajillo Chile Sauce, Pork Filled Chiles Rellenos, Chiles en Nogada, Molcajete Salsa, Pico de Gallo and Frijoles de la Olla. An eye-opening fact – Mexican don't like their food hot. They use fresh chili and other spices to create a flavor that lingers in your mouth.
Mexican food is great for those who are Gluten Intolerant as they use Corn instead of wheat in most of their dishes. Also, you can easily find many beans based Mexican dishes. Another dish which didn't get similar glory as tacos or nachos is the Mexican hot chocolate. If you love something hot on a chilly day, then go for Mexican Hot Chocolate. On merry days, you can enjoy the authentic Mexican Drinks like Tequila, Mezcal, Tecuí, Sotol, Bacanora, Charanda, Posh O Pox, Puebla and Pulque. Mexican Cuisine is for people who enjoy strong drinks and hearty meals.
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Alicia A.
Amazing salsa, tostadas, tacos, horchata. Everything! Wish I didn't live so far away or id be here all the time! This is the real deal! Complete with a live band!
(5)Frances S.
Needed some Mexican breakfast this morning and found this location and we had a great breakfast! Not too busy and service was good.
(4)Eddie B.
Great authentic Mexican food and very reasonably priced. We are on vacation in Orlando from Chicago and were looking for a local restaurant to digress from the tourist trap. This place came up and we decided to try it. The cheese enchiladas were great! The tacos were only $1.25 and well served. I recommend it.
(4)Kim M.
Very authentic and the recently put in some new decor to make the dining room more appealing. We tend to get tacos and horchata, they also have a buffet that is worth trying.
(4)Madeline M.
I was brought here by a friend of mine thats Mexican. I had never had real deal Mexican food before so i was a little unsure of what to expect. First off dont let the location scare you, its a little ghetto lol. But the food is worth it. The green salsa is super hot! But delish!!! And the tortilla chips are warm and crispy, thicker than im used to. My friend orders me the sope which is just a flat thick taco with all the fixins. OMG! Love. The tortilla is crispy but still soft inside, the pork carnitas were super flavorful and hot. It was topped with lettuce tomato onion a sour cream and crumbly Mexican cheese. I get extra cheese when i go. The burritos are gargantuan and flautas are pretty good too. All the drinks and the food is authentic and fresh and you will not be dissapointed. I dream of this place but hubby doesnt eat Mexican :(. Oh! The tortas are great too! I dont recommend takeout tho, the tortillas get soggy and its just not as good.
(5)Kamila L.
I gave another chance to this restaurant and it didn't disappoint me! I ate the Chicken Milanesa Torta ( Breaded chicken Mexican style panini). They also has Ham and Cheese Torta ( Torta de Jamon y Queso como la del Chavo del Ocho) Lol!!! The owners already finally separated the grocery store from the restaurant (good move) and a Yelp! Sticker stand out at the front door! Here it comes, the new favorite Mexican Restaurant in Orlando!
(5)Elizabeth N.
I have never received such bad service in my life. Arrived for lunch on a Saturday afternoon. Our server immediately brought over some chips and salsa and took our drink order. The chips and salsa are pretty uneventful. The chips lack any flavor or salt. The salsa was a green salsa and just OK. I do not eat meat, so I tried to find something on the menu that I could eat. I ended up ordering a burrito. I told the server that I don't eat meat and asked for beans and veggies instead. My husband ordered the verde enchiladas. When our food came out I was extremely disappointed. My burrito had no beans. Instead it was just a salad stuffed into a tortilla. I guess their idea of veggies is huge amount of lettuce and tomatoes. The meat my husband ordered was also incorrect in the enchilada. We figured we would wait for our server to return to explain our issues. Yet she never ONCE came back to check on us. We sat there with empty drinks and just picking at our dishes. Every other table around us were getting help. Not one person came to see if everything was OK with our food. After sitting for about 30 minutes not one person even came to bring us our bill. I finally walked up to the front of the store area and had to ask for it. The lady working the counter couldn't speak English, so she went and found someone else to help us so we waited again. I've never felt so not welcomed in a restaurant before in my life. The food was bad but the service was awful!
(1)Jeannette S.
Authentic Mexican food. Home made chips. Huge portions. Unfortunately both meals that were ordered were served cold. Even the rice and beans. There was only 1 other party in the place so it was not busy.
(3)Julianne E.
Wow, this place is as authentic as you can get. Our waitress didn't speak English at all, thankfully the other one did. The restaurant is attached to a market, so not only can you eat you can shop for your produce etc. afterwards. Also in the same plaza were a bakery and a takeout joint. The decor was interesting and unique. All the chairs and tables seemed to be hand carved. The backs of the chairs were carved into flowers or horses, very colorful. It was not a dirty place, wasn't the cleanest though. Ordered the chili relleno, all I can say is wow, 2 chilies, beans, rice, lettuce, salsa, avocado, and cheese on one plate. It was more than enough food for one, I'm still full. My friends ordered the mixed fajitas, which she said was excellent, and again more than enough food. They offer 2 for 1 Jose Quervo margarita's all day every day. Who doesn't love a 2 for 1 deal? The location of this place was in a strip mall, I'm thinking the same people own the entire building. The area looks a little sketchy but in all I would go back
(4)Betsheell L.
This place was ok for food but the salsa was disgusting. I agree with another reviewer, what mexican restaurant tries to pass of ketchup with sugar and onions as salsa? The other salsa they had was hot as heck which is how we ended up with the ketchup. Even the guacamole was subpar. I had to add lime juice to it as it tasted like all they did was mashed up some avocados and added tomatoes and cilantro for garnish. I was soooooo dissapointed especially since I had relied on the yelp star rating and really only wanted some chips and salsa. Total waste of money. Nice hand carved table and chairs though. Update: We later ended up getting food poisoning. We will not be going back to this place!
(1)Colin G.
Really great Mexican spot. And how can you beat a $6 lunch buffet? The buffet had nopales, salad, pineapple, several meat dishes, rice, beans, cheese enchiladas, and even posole. The regular menu looked good, but it's hard to get around that when it's all so cheap. The best part was that we were given a tower (at least ten) of warm tortillas for the meal. The restaurant is inside of the market. Go in, and it's on the left. It's not like a lot of little Mexican market restaurants I've been to in that it's much cleaner and the service was excellent. The nopales was probably my favorite. Big chunks of cactus in a chile sauce with thin slices of beef steak. It was perfect for the tortillas. Everything was good though. The beans and rice were even good. The tortilleria is actually a couple of doors down, from what I could tell. I went in to ask if they made flour tortillas (they don't). When I find good ones, I usually bring some back since we can't get good ones in Indiana and we like to make breakfast burritos at home. I wasn't too impressed with the corn ones, but it was nice that they were so fresh. The panaderia next door is excellent. They had a HUGE pile of conchas that was very tempting. All, of course, extremely cheap. Solid Yelp find and just off the toll-free back way to the airport from Disney World.
(5)Chance S.
The shopping plaza is easy to find... the restaurant isn't. I went into the fast food place on one end of the plaza and was greeted by a "Buenas!" from a woman. "Ummmm... Is this the restaurant?" I asked. She pointed "No,no... alla." So I walked all the way to the other end of the plaza, past the Latin grocery/market, past the Latin money order place, past the Latin phone center.... you get the idea... right? lol Found it! I was the only gringo in the restaurant. So I knew I would not be disappointed with the food. The chips and salsa were great. The tamales I had to start off were excellent. I tried 3 different tacos. First was the carne asada... very good. Then a chicken taco... average. And last I tried a barbacoa taco... disappointing. It tasted like roast. Nothing like barbacoa that i am used to. I also had one Dos Equis Amber. All of that above and the total came out to $15. I felt like I owed them more money. So you get great value here!
(4)Dave L.
It's carne asada Sunday. I don't care that I'm in a city on the other coast, I don't care that there's five hundred Dominicans for every Mexican in this city, and I don't care that the market is supposedly in some ghetto. Nothing, but nothing, stops me from my appointed Mexican food. And so I went to the tortilleria to buy tortillas (cheap and really quite good), then to the market to buy beef, chiles, nopales, queso fresco, Hass avocados, tomatillos for salsa, and all the other things that make Sunday Sunday. The place is tiny, but it felt like every abarrotes (corner market) in Tijuana. They had verdolagas, they had elotes, they had Mexican chiles including the guajillos I needed, they have cecina. I felt homesick for a moment. They seemed very surprised that a gabacho could speak fluent Spanish, and we joked at the meat counter. That said, the place is not the cleanest--the hot meat section was a hot mess--and the prices were astronomical on some things, I guess because Florida isn't anywhere near Mexico. But the people were friendly (the guys hanging around outside trying to look like machotes were awesome), the aguas frescas and paletas looked fantastic, and if I lived here I'd be here all the time to stock up. I did not eat at the restaurant. This review is for the tortilleria and the market. ¡A comer se ha dicho!
(4)Modesto R.
This place reminds me of our favorite "hole in the wall" Mexican joints from out West! We have been looking for a place like this since we moved here a year ago. The food is authentic , tasty and plentiful at a reasonable price. The 2 for 1 Margaritas were delicious and they are offered all day. They served us fresh tortilla chips with some amazing spicey salsa. I loved the Mexican music blaring, soccer on the televisions, and happy people at the bar. They have a wonderful bakery next door that I suggest you try. I ordered a mixed plate that had enchiladas, taco, and tamales. It came with rice and beans and all the fixings and included tortillas. It's not a fancy place, but much better than the chain Mexican places!!
(4)John J.
The reviews saying this was "very authentic" were correct- our waitress didn't speak English. Menu was very vast in both food and drink selections. The hostess sat us next to the live Mariachi Band (on Sundays), which made the atmosphere quite loud. Service could have been better for my taste, but the food made up for it. This restaurant IMO was worth visiting over the typical Azteca or Abuelo's which I have been to many times. Next time I will come on a Saturday when it's a little less noisy.
(4)J J.
Eek. I've never written a bad review before and thought long and hard about this, but I cannot let another poor soul make the trip here expecting good food. Full disclaimer, I am Mexican, from Cali, and have lived in Mexico for periods of time, so I have had good authentic Mexican food as well as good Cali Mex or Tex Mex. This place doesn't serve any of those foods. What it does serve is table salsa made with either ketchup or cocktail sauce. My husband and I couldn't believe it. Seriously, I wasn't expecting Mexico City's finest, but any gringo can make authentic salsa better than this. Heck, I would have forgiven them if they had served me some bottled Pace salsa. Not only was I extremely confused and disgusted but offended-who serves ketchup with some chopped onions in an allegedly authentic place and tries to pass it off as salsa?? Things only got worse. We had to wait 45 minutes for our food. I don't know if they were short a cook that night, but everyone around us was complaining about the wait. One guy even got up to the kitchen to ask for his food, while another group just got frustrated and left. When we finally got our food, it was disappointing. I had a quesadilla which was not made with any type of melting cheese, but instead had grilled white cheese, the type Caribbean Latinos use. My bisteck tacos were so nervy I had to take out bits of nerve I was chewing. The hubby could not finish his enchiladas Rojas because the tortillas were not lightly fried, as they should be, and kept falling apart. Finally, the margaritas were nothing more than store bought syrup with some tequila. I am really baffled by this place. The store attached to the restaurant carries authentic, hard to get Mexican products, so for the life of me I can't figure out why the food sucked so much. A bad cook? An off night? I'll never know because I am never going back! Please don't be fooled. Yes, there are Mexicans sitting down eating in the restaurant, but that doesn't mean the food is good. From what I saw, there were a lot of single male migrant workers who are probably really homesick and willing to put up with this ish to just have a little taste of home.
(1)Tom B.
On my radar since reading the lovely Daya's ROTD, I made it to Tortilleria la Mexicana #2 today for lunch. I love being surprised and delighted, and delighted and surprised I was indeed. Es muy autentico. I'm sure I was the only non-Mexican person in this very busy restaurant. I loved the wood-carved tables and chairs, with the tables having colorful carving under glass. The restaurant is also home to a nice-sized Mexican grocery store. My entree was Enchiladas Suizas con queso, con refritos y arroz. Quite delicious. But even with this ample dish, I couldn't pass up my first nopale, or cactus taco. What a treat, mixed with onions and cilantro. There's a full bar here, and while I should have done something Mexican, I had a couple of glasses of white wine. Mexicana #2 must get few wine orders, as my exceedingly lovely waitress had to check to see if they even had any; and it was served in a water glass at room temperature! I did a double-take when the bill arrived. With three enchiladas, refried beans, rice, a cactus taco and two glasses of wine, it was only $13.04. I noticed numerous restaurants along this little Latino Restaurant Row of south Orlando. I'll be back for more!
(5)Daya A.
I been an ongoing fan of Tortilleria La Mexicana on Oakridge for quite some time now. Anytime there is a craving for authentic Mexican food I fly over here. At food being under $10 an entree they serve a variety of tacos, enchiladas, flautas, and sopes/huaraches. My favorite day to go is on a Sunday because the mariachi band will perform and they usually have a soccer game playing on all the tvs. From all the items on the menu the best choices are the tacos, huaraches, and horchatas. The huaraches is a popular mexican dish that consist of a fried masa base with your choice of meat/ sausage/ chicken along with lettuce, tomatoes, pice, onions, cheese, and sour cream. Tortilleria uses delicious white Mexican cheese on the huaraches so every bite is memorable. The tacos have a soft corn tortilla base which I absolutely love to order with shredded chicken inside. They also use cilantro, diced tomatoes, and onions inside the taco so you get a flavorable but fresh bite. I tried their enchiladas but wasn't too found of them since the refried beans seemed stale so I always stick with other menu options. Tortilleria also has a stall of Mexican ice creams and icy cool "agua frescas" in many different flavors. Make sure to try the coconut and horchata flavor, you will be hooked! One time I was lucky enough to run into their frozen chocolate bananas with sprinkles. Sadly they only make them very rarely and they sell out quick. Shortly stated this is a must stop for those in need of authentic Mexican food!
(4)Rob B.
This place was a nice little find. I've driven by it a million times, but never took the time to pull in. I fully scarfed on and enjoyed the buffet (priced perfectly at $7.95). It was stocked full of chicken, fish, beef and pork items (inlcuding all of the fixins-beans, rice, cheeses, fresh pico and salsas.) The fresh corn tortillas had me wanting to stand up, dance and shout a random spanish word of excitment. Thankfully, my inner adult reeled me back in reminding me that 1: I can't dance and 2: I know absolutely zero freakin' spanish. "You saved the day yet again inner Rob voice!" Moving here from Texas 9 years ago, (my wife and I are in our 30's and from San Antonio and El Paso) we've definitely have had our ups and downs and round and rounds (ooo a rhyme) with securing authentic mexican food. So here is what we have demized in our post therapy sessions from a 9 year mexican food withdrawl. Either A: folks here in Orlando prefer alternate types of latin/spanish food and that good mexican restaurants cannot thrive (example: Jalepeno's or Los Generales) or B: they're not going to right places that are being recommended on this site and unfortunately folks like me that have been trying to find authentic mexican food are being steered to what "the locals" perception of mexican food is. (it's a conspiracy I tell ya) For those of you like me who have been on the constant search for an authentic experience...the easiest and safest bet is eat here. or if anything, pull your fake chips and salsa eating tails out of those "yukkity yuk yuk" joints and Google any place that has the word "Tortilleria" in it....you'll thank me. Enjoy your meal here, it was perfect. (ohhh, and dont go for the expected scenery of a sit down place that you can feel snobby at) Enjoy the authentic food, atmosphere and heritage...and you'll surely be treated to a wonderful cultural surprise. Enjoy!
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