El Ranchito Taco Shop

too expensive. employees are lazy,$ 8:50 for taquitos, I don’t think so. if there are no customers they should bring the food to your table. GET RID OF THE TIP JAR BECAUSE YOU DO NOT INSURE PROPER SERVICE. GO TO LA FOGATA INSTED.

Everytime I go there I am treated with respect that’s the way I treat them. The food they serve is very good never had the bed plate. I go there about 3 or 4 times a month.

The best tacos in Hemet I’ve had so far. The salsa bar is awesome. Service is fast and friendly.

I think this place deserves 5 stars for being a small family owned taco shop. Especially one that is located in Hemet!!! First off I NEVER eat in Hemet unless it’s here. I loooovvvveeee their sopes! Their carnitas meat is always excellent. They have a fabulous salsa bar & the horchata is amazing!!! Their food is fresh and very delicious. They excel in making rice, some places undercook it or dry it out but here it’s moist and tastes fresh! Me and the fam have tried just about everything and no complaints from anyone! ;) just a little pricey… You can easily spend $ 10 a person just on a fountain drink, and a few tacos!

Addicted to anything carnitas they have! Quick service, clean restaurant, and great salsa bar.

I love the fish tacos! The burritos are really good too. Always fast, friendly and reasonably priced. Only downside is it is probably not the place to go if you are trying to eat healthy.

The boy ordered a breakfast burrito and I got the super-​nachos after shopping at the grocery store nearby. They were good.

The food here is so great! I love the rice, the huge soft tortillas, the salsa and especially the fish tacos. They are crispy, come with a great sauce and are served on two excellent corn tortillas.
The food here is always hot made quickly. The prices are fair and the portions large. I have never had a long wait. It is clean inside and the girls have really gotten better at taking orders correctly and being polite and friendly. I have been coming here about once a week for about a year now, and have not been disappointed for a long time, I have got to say they are my favorite place to eat in Hemet because of that. They have really improved since they first opened.

Been going here for years, the food is pretty good but the service continues to disappoint. My husband tried to order carne Asada nachos to go with the toppings on the side and they refused saying they couldn’t make such changes. I don’t think it unreasonable to not settle for soggy chips in a to go order. I’ll be choosing other taco shops in the future, it’s a shame for something so trivial to cause so much trouble to a business.

Taco shops are not required to be flawless. Part of their charm is often the sketchy neighborhood, or the alley entrance; the gauntlet of homeless folks, or even the rustic salsa bar that feels like you’re in San Felipe or Ensenada.
But one non-​negotiable is the food. When the food disappoints, it sucks the charm out of all those endearing things listed above, and returns them to the annoying and possibly dangerous liabilities they are.
I visited El Ranchito today for a quick carne asada burrito. After enjoying three days of carne asada burritos in San Diego, I really wasn’t expecting perfection. My expectations were realized…
The second I open my car door to walk into the restaurant, I was accosted by a long-​haired scarecrow-​like tweaker, wearing Beats headphones and smoking a cigarette, while telling me that he didn’t have any money to catch the bus, so could I spare a few bucks. I just smiled and shook my head, and he was off to the next car… in the general direction of «not the bus stop».
Upon entering the restaurant, I noticed two big handwritten-​with-​a-​big-​Crayola signs that read CASH ONLY. Fine, I thought. The counter is sort of off-​center and adjacent to some seating so it’s not really clear where you queue to order. Not that it really mattered, because the two gals behind the counter seemed much more interested in their conversation than attending to the fact that I just walked in looking hungry.
A break in the conversation forced her to look up and take my order. I asked for a carne asada burrito… $ 6.99 on the menu, which is about a buck and a half steeper than its San Diego brethren. The cashier stated that they add rice and beans to their burritos. As far as I’m concerned, adding rice and beans to a carne asada burrito makes it… Not a carne asada burrito anymore. It’s now a rice and beans burrito with a little bit of meat in it. I declined the rice and beans, and asked for an all meat burrito. I even states that I would be willing to pay extra, but I didn’t want any rice and beans. Simply put in some meat, guacamole, and pico de gallo. With the addition of a drink, my final order total came out to $ 9.87… I should have put my wallet back in my pocket, smiled and shook my head again, and escaped with my dignity. But no, I handed over a Hamilton, and posted up against a booth, waiting for them to call my number.
To pass the time, I visited their salsa bar. Plenty of small plastic lids, but no plastic cups. I returned to the counter and asked them to put out some more cups for the salsas. The lady handed me two small plastic receptacles and encouraged me to help myself. I happen to like a lot of salsa on my burritos, and with a $ 10 price tag, I definitely wanted to sample their fare with more than two small plastic cups.
After a reasonable wait time, they called me over to pick up my burrito. I immediately noticed the lack of weight when I picked up the bag. I pulled the burrito out of the bag, and noticed how ridiculously small it was. The cook apparently just put the regular small amount of carne asada meat into a tortilla slapped on a little bit of guacamole, and wrapped it up. It was seriously the size of a taquito! Despite my polite but frustrated complaint, I was told «das jus how we doit.»
I looked out across the parking lot at the tweaker panhandler, the cardboard sign guy by the stoplight, the dude with a grip of jailhouse head tats sitting at a booth, the shoeless three year old running amok while mom (allegedly) went outside for a smoke… and realized: this place sucks, but no one here cares. Plus, complaining doesn’t help, because they’ve heard it all from the locals.
If there’s any silver lining, the taquito burrito tasted good… But the portion size, the lackluster service, and the cheapie salsa cup approach will insure I NEVER NEED TO EAT HERE AGAIN.

The ladies working the registers are super rude. The food is pretty good, but you have to beg for napkins and salsa cups.

One of the best places for street tacos. They give a nice generous amount of meat with their tacos. Nice salsa bar with carrots and jalapenos. I never miss an opportunity to visit for a couple of tacos.
Do not pass this place up.

Best Taco Shop in town! Good food — consistently good quality. Husband loves the menudo!
Recent price hike was too stiff — they raised the prices, added rice to the burritos as filler, and in general cut the quantity. No more Taco Tuesdays. I understand times are tough, but I think it cost them some customers.
Place is pretty clean, salsa bar is kept filled. Staff is friendly.

I absolutely love coming here with my friends, but the recent hike in prices has caused me to rethink visiting. I already thought the food (Special E being my particular preference) was expensive, but now it’s just not affordable or worth it really. Wish they hadn’t changed the prices.

Bland and greasy — nothing special. DO NOT ORDER FISH TACOS! It’s a frozen fish stick with a mayo sauce. The salsa was pretty good and this place’s only saving grace. Oh and if you are dining with friends and you want more than one order of chips for your whole party, order separately or «the rules» say you can only have a single side of chips. Crap!

The food was pretty good. My complaints were: you’re only allowed a few tiny containers to get salsa to go and they don’t have any napkins out, you have to ask for them and you don’t get many when you ask. I felt the food was kind of expensive for a taco shop.

Ok. Food was worth 4 stars. Both Hubby and I liked it. I got Special F. Two beef tacos, rice, beans and a drink. Hubby got the grilled chicken tostada salad and a fish Taco. He liked it all but I kept hearing him say how good the shell to his tostada salad was.
Love the bright red salsa. SO good I put it on everything.
What brings it to 3 stars (i’d give 3.5 if I could) is:
1. Cash only. This little mama lives by her debit card. There is an ATM. Charged me $ 1.50 to use it.
2. The girls bathroom (i didn’t see the guys) has no seat covers. It’s not that they were out, there is NO container to even have them. Big no no.
3. Again, bano. There is no mirror. The wall above the sink it bare. There’s a hole where maybe it used to be?
So, would I come here to eat again? Yep. And if the bathroom got fixed I’d even bump the stars up to a 4.