Tacos El Caminero

By far, the best tacos we’ve had in Mexico City. The quesadillas were great too. Friendly waiters and don’t get me started on the prices! If you’re around El Angel, drop by, you wont regret it!

I love street food, and this place gets it pretty close. My favorite tacos will forever be from a food stand near the Hidalgo train station, but Tacos El Caminero gets it pretty close. A hole in the wall, no-​fuss kind of place, with lots of indoor and some outdoor seating. I would consider their menu pretty extensive and the service is fast. It’s in a safe part of the city, near the Angel of Independence. I ended up coming here twice, because I couldn’t leave Mexico without making tacos my last meal. Their salsa is on point, and my boyfriend could/​did eat it by itself. Would recommend that you always comes with cheese as sometimes the meat can be on the dry side. I’m definitely a fan and would recommend this place for those seeking some delicious tacos.

I had the vegetarian tacos along with a glass of tamarindo. although my husband wasn’t too impressed by the hygiene levels, my eyes were glued to the delicious tacos on our table and the spicy hot salsas placed next to us in small steel cups. The veggie taco was pretty tasty consisting of grilled peppers, mushrooms and onions serve on tacos made of corn flour and melty cheese on top. So good. I loved it.

We arrived late at night, and they took the guacomole and replaced it with a bright fresh bowl. I really appreciated that attention to detail and customer experience. My friend didn’t understand the alcohol menu, so the waiter actually just took her to the back so she could look and pick out her favorite. We tried the «volcan,» which was basically a tasty quesadilla with a flour tortilla. Personally I preferred the quesadillas over the tacos. The quesadillas had a crispy crunch with a generous serving of melted cheese.

Very tasty tacos. Clean place. Good variety of meats.
My favorite taco joint in México City.
Plus it’s never made me sick. Lol. That’s a big plus…

The pork was absolutely amazing, Idk how they cooked it but ita fantastic. (3 tacos for 60 $)
I had a flan (30 $) who was also damn great.

very rude waitresses. they could not have cared less. i had chicken tacos and they were really not good. no flavor. the salsas were good. agua de jamaica was just okay. and the orden 3 tacos is about $ 70 pesos now (the photos of the menu on here are old)…way overpriced for the quality. you can get better tacos on the street for $ 7 – 10 pesos/​taco. this is not a good restaurant.

Great little hole in the wall! Pico was fresh and tasty. Plenty of food for not a lot of money! Stop here for sure!

So good! We stayed at the Sheraton around the corner and came for a late afternoon snack and left with our bellies full! There are three salsas already on the table. We each ordered three of the tacos especiales, which came with a bunch of extra tortillas and a plate full of lime wedges!

Decent place, the tacos are good but there are better places close by.
The service is good, but that’s true of most decent restaurants in DF.

I trusted the reviews, and I’m so glad that I did. After 24 hours of hotel and airline food and snacks I was very ready to eat real authentic Mexican food. The vegetariano was quite good, a bit heavy on the onions, but still good. They have salsas on every table, including salsa verde. The rojo was better, in my opinion.

I love this place! I went twice while staying at the nearby Sheraton Maria Isabel. It’s definitely not a fancy place. I’ve heard so much about the great street tacos in Mexico City but was warned about a US visitor eating from the typical food stand. I’m guessing that the tacos at El Caminero are what people have been telling me about.
There is a very simple menu — how many tacos do you want, what meat, what topping. When my wife and I first visited, we get two orders of ‘orden 3 tacos,’ which is your choice of 3 tacos of one meat. We got an order of pollo and an order of pastor. Each order is a big mound of meat served with a pile of small tortillas. I didn’t count the number of tortillas but I guess a taco is considered to use 2 tortillas because there were at least 6 tortillas on the plate. It’s a lot of food. We would have been fine with just one order. Both were excellent. With the tacos, they include 2 salsas (a rojo and a verde) and pico de gallo. They all were nice and spicy, especially the pico. For the pastor, they also give you a plate of fresh pineapple, cilantro and raw onion. Oh my, was this awesome! Nice, spicy meat, freshly prepared to order, and lots of it. We also had a couple of cervezas. The price was very inexpensive — 55 pesos for each order of 3, which is about $ 3.50. Total price was 190 pesos (about $ 12).
I also returned another time and got 3 pastor tacos for just myself. Again, awesome. I could eat at El Caminero every day.

Los mejores tacos al pastor y queso fundido! Excelente guacamole, servicio y ambiente

I went here twice, the second experience made up for the first when I didn’t know what I was doing. The key is to order 3 tacos of a given type of meat instead of mixing and matching tacos. If you order the mix, you get 3 individually made tacos, and it costs more. If you pick a single type, you get a plate of meat and a stack of tacos. Even though it says 3 tacos it’s easily enough for 5 or 6 and everything is delicious!

They screwed me out of my Cuban torta on my to go order. :(. I was really looking forward to it. I feel like they took advantage of my not so great Spanish. You mark your order on a menu and then they make your food. They handed me my bag and charged me for everything. The food is good but I don’t recommend for the gringo tourist.
If you see this review please bring my torta to city express hotel room please!!!

Amazing tacos right around the corner from the Angel. Unassuming hole in the wall place.
The Vegetariano was great.

En términos generales buenos tacos aunque podría mejorarse la calidad y preparación de las tortillas las cuales a mi me parecieron algo grasosas y duras en las orillas, la mejor carne puesta en una tortilla mediocre no te da como resultado un excelente taco
Yo pedí pastor con queso y la verdad la cantidad en el plato es basta y suficiente para quedar satisfecho, buen sabor,
El promedio de consumo promovedora fue de $ 100 pesos aproximadamente

Great, inexpensive and traditional tacos. A lot of different options and add-​ons. I hit this place every time I come to DF. Nothing fancy inside but that’s ok, I’m here for the tacos.

This is a favorite stomping ground for me and my business partners whenever we’re in Mexico City. Some stool seating inside in full view of the cooking area, usually occupied by groups of 3 – 4. Around 3 – 4 small tables outside.
Tacos are unbeatable. Servings are large. With the high exchange rates a friend and I paid $ 15 for two huge meals a beer each.

Am staying at the Sheraton and the last thing I’m going to do in Mexico City is order hotel room service. I Unilocaled and this was right around the corner. I gave it a shot and was so happy I did.
Best meal i had in Mexico City. Great service and delicious tacos — chicken soup was top notch (I ordered 2) — salsas were fresh — very reasonably priced. Added bonus is that the guy behind the register speaks English.
Also, tamarind water was delicious.
Will absolutely come here again.

Amazing tacos, I was originally skeptical considering it’s a literal hole in the wall but they’re amazing. Had the chicken and steak tacos with cheese and bacon and great prices also !!!

Best tacos in downtown mexico city. Fast clean, to many options. Next to the US embassy. Will come back

Great little hole in the wall for tacos. I had three different types of tacos — which was worth it to sample — a beer and pasteles for about $ 12 US including tip.
Friendly place, attentive service. I would go again.

Los mejores de México para los vegetarianos tienen muy buenas opciones. Siempre que ando en el DF es obligado venir aquí!!! Las salsas son espectaculares!!!

Los tacos son buenísimos y es la mejor salsa roja del mundo!!! Excelente calidad.
The best tacos un the world. Make sure to try the red sauce it is amazing!!!

Tasty tacos. I ordered 3 different ones so I had to pay the price for ordering separately. Next time I would go for the special deal and get all the same kind.
Beer served and the seating off the street is pleasant. Definitely worth seeking out.

De vuelta en el Caminero, tentación irresistible en la Cuauhtémoc. .Cerveza, tacos y volcanes… y de postre flan!!! insuperable! Ambiente casual para estar. con la banda. La terraza es muy agradable. salud!

I really LOVE El Caminero … The best Tacos in Mexico City.
Every time I fly to Mexico City on business and I have time to escape from fancy restaurants… I walk from The St. Regis or JW Marriott /​Polanco, to El Caminero.
People are super friendly and the menu options are awesome … delish…
Just a few steps away — around Angel de la Independencia and across the US Embassy, El Caminero is my favourite TACO place in D.F.
Gracias El Caminero … Que Ricos Tacos.

Los mejores tacos de México. Muy bien servidos y muy ricos. Les recomiendo el chile Chester y un consome no puede faltar
muy recomendables

Tacos, tacos y más tacos esta ciudad respira tacos y nadie se cansa de ellos. Pero no creo que nadie pueda cansarse de los tacos. El Caminero es donde más extranjeros se ven al día, debe ser por algo, no es casualidad.
Tienen un dibujo donde muestra los pasos correctos para poder degustar los manjares ofrecidos, casi nadie cumple esas reglas, pero no importa lo que quieres es comer y comer, incluso una vez satisfecho querrás seguir comiendo.
Cuando te entregan la lista para que anotes que quieres no sabrás que pedir e incluso si te has decidido por algo cuando a tus acompañantes les entreguen sus ordenes desearas comer de su plato, un poco de todo es lo que deberían ofrecerte ahí. Son esos lugares que no deberían tener franquicias, son únicos y así deberían permanecer, solo expandirse. Si alguien va a El Caminero tendrá por seguro que así pasen 50 años podrán regresar al mismo lugar y tener la misma calidad de siempre.

Este negocio forma parte de mis recuerdos más añejos de la niñez. En los años setenta mi papá nos llevaba a cenar tacos y eventualmente –algún domingo que no había comida en casa de mi abuelita– veníamos a comer aquí en domingo. Recuerdo que las combinaciones de bistec, chuleta, costilla, queso, tocino, cebolla y pimiento eran la ley.
Me encantaba que el mesero llenaba un vaso de plástico con fichas de colores, dependiendo de lo que ordenabas y la parrilla estaba a la vista de todos para que vieras cómo se preparaba tu combinación. Bueno, pues en la actualidad sigue tan bueno como en aquellos años y el sistema sigue siendo el mismo.
Yo me pido una combinación de Costilla con queso, tocino, cebolla y pimiento, nueve tacos y mi Sidral. También venden un Chile poblano relleno de queso, al que llaman Chile Chester y los clásicos Choriquesos. Ah y no olvides tu consomé de Pollo o unos Frijolitos Charros y para terminar tu Flan ¿Pa’ qué quiero más? Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Esta tradición en tacos desde que yo era una niña pequeña!!!, mi papá nos llevaba a esta o a su otra locación y nos sentábamos en las mesas comunales con asientos periqueros, quedábamos muy lejos pero aún así comíamos, siempre un consomé con arroz y garbanzo, delicioso y unos tacos de bistec. Las porciones son grandes, aunque te dicen que son 3, 6, 8 tacos, siempre salen mas por lo que no te emociones al pedir 8 porque seguro dejarás mas que quieras compartir, tienen en su menú los típicos tacos de bistec, pastor, chuleta, pollo, con queso, alambres, frijoles y café de olla. Una de las cosas que me gustaba era como llevaban las cuentas, al entrar te daban un vaso y ahí iban echando fichas de diferentes colores y tamaños dependiendo de que ordenaba, ahora se han modernizado y ya lo hacen como todos lados con un tíquet electrónico. Si no sabes a donde ir a comer tacos buenos, este es el lugar!

Son un clásico de la colonia Cuauhtemoc. Ofrecen los tacos por orden de tres o de seis. La oferta de tacos es bastante clásica: bistec, chuleta, costilla, al pastor, alambres, etcétera. Y dicho sistema permite hacerse un taco tan abundante como uno quiera. Al estar ubicada a un lado de la embajada de Estados Unidos muchos gringos deben descubrir el verdadero taco mexicano justamente ahí. Lo cual está muy bien porque son muy buenos representantes de este estilo de comida.
Hay que decir que tiene cuenta con terraza para los fumadores y los acalorados, en un patio agradable en que son bienvenidos los cuadrúpedos.

Para quienes disfrutan de comer tacos, El Caminero es una buena opción. Aunque aquí, por desgracia, no hay tacos al pastor, sí existen los clásicos de bistec, pollo, chuleta, chorizo y costilla, los cuales se pueden pedir solos o combinados con queso, tocino y cebolla.
Este lugar es ideal para cuando sales con tus amigos, pues se pueden pedir ordenes de 6 o de 9 tacos, además de la clásica orden de 3. Lo bueno también son los alambres, el «chile chester» o el vegetariano, que es uno de mis favoritos.
Un par de ocasiones he ido a este lugar para ver el futbol, ya que hay una televisión.
Los precios son un poco elevados, pero vale la pena por que están bien servidos y el servicio es rápido.