Los Jarochos Restaurant

Why!!! Why did you close!!!
This was my spot for tacos de tripa. I always recommended this restaurant. It was a clean establishment that offered great food. And I show up and its gone! Just some «closed» signs posted on the glass windows. And now it is no more. So sad.

Five stars no doubt about that!!! Tacos and burritos are amazing! The meat quality is the best… I had tacos de tripas and my fiancé has a burrito de asada… the best in Vegas!!! Even the rice was good salsa was great free chips and salsa friendly and fast service… the closes to LA tacos in all of Vegas!!! Will come here over and over and over again!

We just discovered this gem of a restaurant and we have gone there 3 days straight. It is a family run restaurant that serves amazing food. They are super friendly and always smiling. This has become our favorite Mexican food and we go to a lot. You know it’s authentic when they serve lengua!!! Everything is great here!!!

Still the best for tacos in vegas. Recommend el pastor, tasty and affordable, 99c! The staff is welcoming and friendly and the complimentary salsa and chips is spicy but delicious, you can’t stop eating it. Love this mom and pop restaurant.

Real Mexican food. Clean, nice staff and fresh home made food. My favorite Mexican place!!!

This place is around the corner from my house, so I thought I’d pop in for a look-​see. Normally, I frequent Roberto’s, but I had a hankering for something different.
The place is very very clean and orderly. Bathrooms were immaculate. Tables were quickly cleared and wiped down. It’s even nicely decorated. I love the neon sign on the outside. Very tasteful! Dining area is a nice size as well. Tables are well spread out so you don’t feel like you are sitting on top of someone. Although, every time I’ve been here, it’s been pretty empty.
Staff was friendly. I ordered the lingua tacos. The linqua was cooked to perfection, and they didn’t skimp on it either. A lot of mexican restaurants I’ve been to, will throw a couple of pieces in there and then fill the rest with cilantro and whatever else.
Chips and salsa were super tasty — not greasy. I don’t know what their house salsa is but it was so good. I couldn’t get enough.
I will say that the food was under-​seasoned, but still delicious. It just needed some simple salt or authentic seasoning to complete it.
I’ll def be coming back here as an alternative to Roberto’s. The food seemed fresher and less greasy.

One of my favorite Mexican Restaurant… Is a big place the service is a VIP… One of the most clean restaurants I ever been, and the food is just delicious!!!

As of now, this is my favorite spot in town for good Mexican food.
The staff is always friendly and the food is always really good. I don’t eat meat, so I can’t say I’ve tried lots on the menu but my carnivorous friends really love it here and I LOVE the shrimp tacos and sweet corn tamales. mmm.
We’ve already been back a few times and will definitely keeping coming!

Upon walking in I was surprised at how big it is. There were only 2 others in the restaurant. It was an off time. The place is very clean. It was very warm inside. Which was not pleasant on an over 100 degree day.
I was ordering take out. The order process was quick and simple.
It took about 20 minutes for the order to be ready. They also include napkins and utensils.
I ordered the beef fajitas. It is a huge portion. Too much for one person. I was a little disappointed as I felt it was overwhelmed by cilantro. The tortillas had an odd flavor as well.
The chips were good, not greasy nice flavor.
The beans were quite watery. The rice was perfectly cooked and I liked the taste. Perfectly seasoned.
I ordered the shrimp burrito for my DH and he loved it.
I found the prices high. 32.00 for two for takeout.
I will try this place again, they had a lot of choices.

I was bored one day, did a Unilocal search on myself «LJ R», and this place popped up. I really need a new hobby. The first thing that caught my attention was the $ 0.99 tacos. They have $ 0.99 tacos Tuesdays through Thursdays all day so why not right? And on Wednesdays, it’s $ 0.99 Al Pastor tacos all day. Hey today’s Wednesday. Did LJ R. go to LJR? Nah maybe next week.
LJR has a $ 5 order minimum for card usage so I had no problem with ordering 5 Al Pastor tacos. It came with pepper, green onion, lime, and sauce on the side. The tacos weren’t that bad, not quiet like the more popular al pastor taco spots around Vegas but satisfying. I liked the meat, it was more lean and less greasy but kind of mild in the flavor I was expecting. It was topped with fresh onion and celantro. Most my tacos never held together and the fillings burst out the middle of the tortillas, I just picked them up with my fingers.
The service is friendly. My drink was refilled and food brought out in a reasonable amount of time. They served complementry chips and salsa. Not a lot of tables inside but they weren’t that busy. Clean looking minus the wall of containers on the counter. The rest of the menu sounds good and are reasonably prices. It’s hard to say if I fan or not but I’m at least leaning towards whatever side is positive. I’ll have to go back and try more.

Unilocalers, you steered me wrong on this one! I found this place highly rated and decided to stop on it. I wanted to love Los Jarochos based on the reviews and the atmosphere but I was super disappointed in their tacos.
This is obviously a family run establishment and it pains me to write a 2 star review but I have to. The warm greeting when I walked in was lovely, as was the delicious smell coming from the back of the kitchen. The charming older Mexican ladies cooking my tacos made me smile and got the foodie in me thinking «wow, these are going to be some seriously kick-​ass street tacos.» When my food was ready, I was more than disappointed.
I ordered a carne asada and a chicken taco. The meat was poor quality, with a slight edge going to the carne asada. The chicken taco was HORRIBLE. The meat wasn’t white meat or breast, it was more like rubbery, chewy thigh meat — the kind of «chicken» you get at the worst Chinese restaurants. That’s not my cup of tea, so beware. The prices were cheap enough (we both ate for $ 12 total), but the food wasn’t good.
The chips tasted like something out of a bag and the salsas were really thin and runny. Don’t attack me for liking a bit of chunk with my salsa. The flavors were okay but nothing I wanted to finish eating. The homemade corn tortillas were good. The tacos were fine but they are very heavy on the cilantro and onions so if you want to do some kissing later, skip the toppings.
It looks like in the past they had a more extensive menu but now, half the signs are covered up or scribbled out with magic marker. Maybe their more «exotic» meats are what’s good here, but I really just wanted a chicken taco, not a tongue taco. The restaurant was clean and pleasant.
I was just so let down by this place.

It’s been quite a while since my first review and I feel the need to upgrade them a bit. They are still not my favorite place in town. The flavors just aren’t dynamic enough and sometimes the food is a tad bit bland, but they are solid and have relatively reasonable prices for the portions they serve.
The meats are well-​cooked but a little under seasoned. I like the pastor and lamb. They are a little heavy handed with the onion, so if that’s not your thing ask for it on the side.

The chicken tostadas and refillable agua frescas are definitely worth coming here. I say this because everything else we have tried here is not that great.
The place is very nice and clean but it is almost always vacant when we’ve dined here. It does look like they get a lot of to-​go orders though.
They also serve goat here which is quite tasty but having small bones in the mix does not make for a pleasant eating experience.
Service is usually good and we will definitely be back for the chicken tacos!

This place was good and cheap, just how I like it! It was a little far from where I live and nothing was super spectacular but it was good and If I was in the area I would stop by again.
We got the:
cheese empanadas– delicious.
adobada tacos– pretty good, not the best I’ve had, but good
They bring you free chips and salsa when you first sit down. It was a nice touch. The specials are on the side of the cash register if you want to get a better deal, though I found everything to be pretty inexpensive already.
My only real complaint would be that all the reviews said the tortillas were handmade, mine were definitely not. :(

Notice LJ after last weeks visit to neighboring Long Jin — will LJ be our local go-​to Mexican restaurant ?
simply place — order at counter then sit down for food to be delivered. I was ordering lunch to-​go.
Went with an asada taco ($ 1.99), carnitas taco ($ 1.75) and al Pastor ($ 1.75) along with a beef empanada (under $ 2)
Food came out quickly, took home without thinking about salsa bar. Luckily, server provided limes, green and red sauce.
The empanada? 3 words — Where’s the beef !!! For some reason it reminded me of a puffy taco because it was 90% air and maybe, and it’s a stretch, maybe 1 tablespoon of meat — not happy.
The tacos — all were decent — fair amount of meat but a slight ding for only one tortilla — and yes, the 2^nd tortilla makes a difference. I give a slight nod to the al pastor.
Will this be my go-​to place? Not sure yet — I need to try a few more items and ask if they can add a 2^nd tortilla to the taco. overall, not a bad experience.
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This is the second time I have been here. This place is amazing every time. I had the pierna torta and my girl had the Huevos a la Mexicana. They have a habanero salsa you have to ask for if you like crazy spicy.
The place is really clean and decorated very nice.
I love mom and pop restaurants. I will keep coming back.

I woke up on a Sunday morning (well, it was noon), kinda drunk from the previous night’s rage-​a-​thon. Roomie already started his brunch with a couple beers… on an empty stomach. We both decided to hit up this place as it was featured on Las Vegas Weekly (yup, shameless plug).
They have street tacos or mini tacos for less than $ 2. I got greedy and decided to get five… carnitas, asada, lengua, tripas and carnitas de cueritos. First of all, this was my first time eating tripas (intestines and all that junk). OMG the first bite was amazing, but the second bite, I gagged cause I noticed it was all the weird stomach lining. Too intense for me. All the others I ordered: amazeballs. But the total winner was teh carnitas de cueritos. OMG. You must order that!!!
Also, if you do a dine in you will receive free chips and salsa. This place would be so much better if they didn’t close at 10 p.m.

I seriously disagree with the three star average Los Jarochos has gotten… probably because the majority of these two star and below reviews are from two years ago.
Fast forward to 2013… we were in the mood for some tacos, and we have our favorite spots we frequent, but instead of hitting the streets, this time we decided to give Los Jarochos a try since we’ve driven by countless times and is also heavily favored by Duchess and fellow Unilocaler Alison Y.
As you step inside, the place is spacious, clean, and inviting. You have a wide selection of items-​Tacos, Tortas, Burritos, Soups, Tostadas, Empanadas, and Combination Plates, the list goes on and on… Another good sign is the homemade agua frescas up front. Not out of a machine, or a nasty pre-​made mix, and whats even sweeter about it? FREE REFILLS! Who does that??? Los Jarochos does!
We decide from the plethora of items to go for some tacos and empanadas for our first visit. We ordered the Crab Empanada since it sounded good, and we decided to share a Tostada de Pollo. For our tacos, we each got Tripa (ask for it bien doradito, or crispy) and Borrego (lamb). You heard me right… Lamb Tacos? Who does that??? Los Jarochos does!
Out of all the items we ordered, everything was delicious, but the Crab Empanada was just blah… now what we expected. The tacos are about the size of El Gordos, and these are fresh tortillas, another plus which wil automatically make me a fan. I found a little piece of bone in my Lamb Taco, but that ain’t gonna cause me to be critical and ding them a star. These were so good, we ordered up another round of Borrego and Tripas tacos and a Cheese Empanada. A little note on the empanadas here-​these aren’t your flaky dough, baked type of empanada, these are fresh masa filled goodies that «poof up» when dropped in the fryer, so the filling may not look plentiful, but is still a simple, straightforward treat. Overall, a great first visit, and we will be back for more… ALOHA!!!
Unilocal 100 CHALLENGE 2013−(43÷100) «Lamb Tacos Sold Here…:9»

Holy cow, I thought I had already written a review of this place! I’ve been coming to Los Jarochos ever since they opened (I was sad that the kabobs place closed though). I had read an article by local food critic Max Jacobson where he said he had really enjoyed the food.
My husband loves this place. So much so, that when I suggest we check out a new taco tand or head to an old favorite, he feels like he is cheating on the place. Really. When I come here I always order the tostadas de pollo, you can order individually or an order which comes with three. I always go for three, but really two are sufficient. Hubby gets a variety of tacos, lengua, birria, asada, etc. and he loves them all.
The reason I was compelled to write this review today is because we recently went and I was craving something other than tostadas. Hbby recommended a torta, which he sometimes gets and also loves. HOLY COW! I ordered a torta de asada and my goodness it was extraordinary. The meat had that special sazon that you get when eating food in Mexico and the bread was sooo good! I don’t know what they do to it but I dare say it is the best torta in town. The only thing I’ve ordered and haven’t liked were the shrimp empanadas, that had weird little shrimp in it and were off tasting. Also you can get better tacos al pastor elsewhere.
Your best bet here is going for simple dishes; I noticed someone used Roberto’s as a comparison, someone also mentioned the tacos have one, not two tortillas. If you are looking for an authentic, inexpensive Mexican restaurant, this is the place.

I was so excited to see this place open up recently. I live close by so having a taqueria in my hood meant that I might be a regular visitor. Unfortunately, after two visits I’m not thrilled with the quality. And, I hate giving bad — or even average — reviews to mom and pop shops because I want them to succeed. But, here’s the lowdown…
My first visit I got four tacos ($ 1.75 each). The carne asada was tough and chewy, the two pastor tacos had tender meat and were well seasoned (so hot I kept reaching for my drink), and the carnitas were the best of the bunch. Each taco only had one tortilla, but were filled with plenty meat, onions, and cilantro. They didn’t have any bottled water, but had bottles of soda for $ 2.
They had a spit/​rotisserie set up but the manager said they wouldn’t be using it until business picked up.
The second visit I got a chicken empanada ($ 1.77). It was a large empanada filled with chicken and a tomato/​onion mixture. It could have been more crispy, but it tasted really good. I also got a carnitas burrito ($ 6.75) which was filled with plenty of pork, rice, beans, cilantro, and onions. Unlike the carnitas taco on my previous visit, this pork was bland and way too fatty. I’m usually easy to please and will eat everything in front of me, but I could only finish half of the burrito. Not because it was a huge burrito (it was big) but because the carnitas weren’t that good.
I really want this place to do well and I wish the owners the best of luck. But, I just can’t say that I’m a fan.
2.5 Stars