El Taco Riendo

I go to Taco Riendo whenever I crave some solid Mexican food. Shown below are the foot long and normal sized burrito. If you come here, I advice you to come on an empty stomach. I highly recommend the al pastor for the choice of protein and the home-made horchata for the beverage.

I love love love El Taco Riendo. My standard order here is the classic burrito, with barbacoa beef and tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, and cheese inside. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is.... I usually take the burrito to go, and then head up Central 1/2 block to Fair State Brewing for a great beer with my burrito. Yum. It's a perfect combo, IMO. There are two basic burrito options: Mexican style, or American style. American style features rice, beans, pico, cheese and sour cream. Mexican style features rice, beans, grilled onions, cilantro, lime and the optional add ons listed above (my fav). It's the unique cilantro and lime combo that makes El Taco Riendo's burritos so special. The burritos here are wrapped nicely to allow easy eating. They are not as large as the burritos available over in St. Paul (El Burrito Mercado, for example), but El Taco Riendo's burritos are MUCH more flavorful and unique tasting. It's quality here, not simple quantity. The staff are all super polite and friendly, eager to help you out with questions. The cashier always speaks good English. There are limited parking options on Central, so be prepared to grab a spot on a side street and walk. The sitting area inside is relatively sparse and not large, so be prepared for this too. The night I went here, the line was quite long to order. Each burrito, enchilada, fajita, taco order are all made from scratch while you wait. I am happy that this restaurant survived their big fire several years ago (see my photos from 2020) where they operated out of a food truck, and decided to renovate and reopen in the original location. If you're craving a high-quality delicious burrito, get to El Taco! I know you want one now, right??? Gosh, I sure do. I'm hungry now!

This place is the best the twin cities has! HUGE portions, best gauc around! Very very reasonable prices! Met the owner today- what an amazing man! We’ll be back again- often! I never recommend restaurants, but this place a 10/10 completely recommend!

After my usual taco spot closed down, I needed to find another place to religiously buy tacos from 🌮. Seriously; I’ve gotten tacos waaaaay more than I’ve ever gone to church, believe me. So to find a new taco place to frequent were some pretty big shoes to fill Welp this place can also be called “Cinderella” because because El Riendo filled those shoes perfectly. Yeah I’m your average midwesterner for the most part; but I know delicious and authentic Mexican food when I get it. I grew up in an area of Milwaukee where I was able to get amazing tamales left & right, and when I moved to MN I had really missed that. After my favorite place to get tacos from closed, I had to find another good taco spot. Obviously El Taco Riendo is authentic; but their food is also great! El Taco Riendo has always been consistently good, and I am so happy to of found comfort in this place. They make the most perfect elote with a fair distribution of all the toppings. I whenever I order to pickup or deliver, I’ve asked them to possibly leave onions out as a topping, if they can. I don’t hate onions, but have a slight food sensitivity to them, so if I’m able to get less onions; I try to. Every time they’ve been so nice and have always left out the additional onions for me. Recommend elote 🌽 and their tamales 🫔. Any of their tacos 🌮 in any flavor are a no-brainer and all have been good! I’m happy I found this place through a suggestion of a coworker of mine! El Taco Riendo is so good!!

The mole enchiladas and tacos were out of this world! We ordered the pastor, tinga, and barbacoa and were blown away by all 3. Can't wait to come back again, for the price and portions we're happy to have a new delivery go-to spot.