La Casita L C

We went here because we had a groupon. We went in and place was empty took awhile for waitress to come out but when she did she was very nice and took our order. Food honestly was so-​so I can’t complain but nothing to rave about. We waited for our waitress to bring us check so we can ask for boxes– while we were waiting the owner or older lady — yelled from the cash register that our check was ready to come get it. Wow! So we got up to get it and ask for boxes –she then said we should of finished all of our food. We took it like she was joking??? Well I present my groupon and she tells me she doesn’t take them anymore I told her I just bought it three days before I was there. She said to bad I don’t accept them I told her she has to honor them. She then told me she doesn’t have to honor anything and she doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t want to! She’s a old lady about 70 ish so I tried to be as respectful as I can! As she was yelling at me telling me she doesn’t accept them the waitress came up tried to tell her that they do accept them by this time the owner said «oh we do ok I don’t accept social life –but kept saying she can’t scan my groupon and didn’t once apologize that she was wrong. I left my mom to deal with her because I didn’t want to be disrespectful or tell her off! As I was standing there by door my family walked out I was talking to a girl who had just got there and I happen to know from years ago — the owner couldn’t see me by door but saw girl and asked the girl do you know those people– girl said yes the old owner started calling us names in Spanish ! I was in shock that a owner could treat customers like this! I don’t think just because she’s a older lady that she deserves to treat anyone like that!

Ordered Tacos, very disappointing. Meat was just regular hamburger, lettuce, tomato and a hard shell tortilla like you can buy off the shelf at Albertsons. I can make that at home.

Love the albondigas soup the migas with handmade flour tortillas pure south Texas food service is great La Señora Lila treats you like a family member all the time five stars all around andtry the tamales full of meat !!!

Why 5 Stars? Selection, Taste, Atmosphere, Home Cooking style, Friendly.
This is real Tex-​Mex, not too hot, and tamales not the common California corn dog style (thick corn crust with a smattering of meat). The tamales are tubular with lots of filling wrapped in a not overly thick corn cover.
As some reviewers noted the food in not real Mexican but neither are the majority of chains and fast food places in California, not really.
The food here is what you find in San Antonio, Houston, El Paso, Roswell, and Las Cruces (the areas and cities where I grew up).
Prices are in line with other small family places like El Camino Café of Tustin (which is slightly more expensive).
The oilcloth table covers, pictures on the wall are a throw back to a time when you took your time enjoying a meal without thinking ahead to the next appointment. I ordered Migas (invented in San Antonio along with Fajitas) and even with other people dining close by it was quiet enough to read a few pages of the book I am currently reading.
Try it! You will like it! Don’t get hung up on chips, leave ‘em as table dressing ;-)

I drive by this place almost every day but they have short hours so I junped at the chance to stop by today. Staff was friendly, but didn’t check on me after i was served. The food came out quickly, the place is very clean and cozy. I ordered the chilaquiles with an egg. The l plate comes with beans and rice but while the chilaquiles and egg were scrumptious, the beans and rice were rather unremarkable. If you use part of the salsa on the rice, it is much improved. The flavors are overall not heavy with grease, and feels like very honest home cooking. Like eating at your tia’s house.

Breakfast– chorizo potato egg rice. 3.5. Homemade flour tortilla 5!
Salsa –4.5, chips from Costco — 2
Service 5
Prices — 2.5
Old house turned into restaurant, nice

i had the chicken burrito the food was ok it did not taste like authentic mexican food to me. the chips they serve you with salsa are store bought thats already a negative and the food is pretty pricy i think. over all the food was decent but i dont think i would say it is authentic mexican food.

The chips that were served today were purchased from Stater Bros. Pretty mediocre fare for the price.

I live nearby and always get take out. The Spanish rice and menudo is so amazingly delicious. Everything else is not 5 star food. .but I give this place 5 stars for the experience. It’s owned by an honest old lady and it’s not about trendy new amazing chef food. It’s a local person with an adorable little place to eat. I like supporting local small businesses and this place is definitely worth eating at~

I wish I could give this place 0 stars but the 1 is out of pure sympathy. Probably the worst «tex mex» restaurant we have been to. My chicken mole was bland beyond belief, it literally tasted like the canned stuff you can buy from walmart, add water and bam your done, not from scratch at all. Oh and the salsa, lets not forget about that. I could of sworn it was Pace. The only thing that was enjoyable was our drinks, horchata and agua de Jamaica, both on the average side but come on, a monkey can make jamaica water.

I have been coming to this place off and on for 15+ years and have never had a bad meal. Some weeks I would eat here thee times and then again on the weekend.
The food is all made by hand and it feels as if my Mexican grandma (if I was Mexican) made it with massive amounts of love.
This place states that it is Tex-​Mex, but I think it is more down-​home Mexican and one that is really tasty. Whole beans instead of lard-​filled refrieds. Lean meats instead of chunks of fat and a house salsa most abuelitas would kill to know the recipe of.
My faves are the nopalitos, and their handmade tortillas. Another standout is their chorizo, which is perfectly spiced with not a drop of that freaky orange grease that ALL other Mexi places have dripping out of their factory-​made tortillas.
I implore you to dump your local heartburn-​inducing «south of the border» shithole and try this place out. You won’t be sorry you did.

Uninspired bland tex mex. This has to be the least flavorful Tex Mex I’ve had. The chips were from Costco. Most of the tacos are very plain and bland. Not as much of it was homemade as i would have expected. I would not come here again.

We got some tamales to go form here not long ago. There is a flag out front we they have the ready. It is there pretty often. The people are super nice. We had a good conversation while they were packing he dozen for me to take. They had some really tasty sauce on the side too. She told me they would be a little different because they were Texas style. They were perry darn good. They were just skinnier and has slightly different stuffing. I say I you are feeding people who are used to the fatty Mexican ones get extra but they are worth it!!! I want to go back and get more as well as try other things. :)

What a find. Wonderful wholesome and tasty Tex Mex favorites. Authentic ingredients prepared in a healthier manner. Each dish has a wonderful and distinct taste. The way home made food should. Its becoming one of my favorites. Breakfast is the bomb. Friday dinner is a great option.

A bit pricy but you get what you pay!
The best salsa in Town (spicy though) and delicious crispy Taco. Normally I ordered 3 Tacos with rice and beans … yummy ! They give you a bowl of home made salsa and chips for appetizer.
My friend said their Menudo and Enchilada are delicious too.
It’s a Mom and Pop’s restaurant so the food are much better to compare with those chain restaurants. The owner is really friendly and she likes to talks with her customers. Good service from the waiter too — I’ve been eating at this place since long time ago and the quality of the food remain the same.

the bf and i always drive by La Casita and have been wanting to try it out. we finally went last week for brunch, just before closing. btw the hours are: monday through thursday 7AM-​4PM, friday 7AM-​8AM and saturday and sunday 7:30AM-2PM. it is a tiny little house with a small parking lot in the back and limited street parking. it is literally like walking into a home. i would say like walking into my grandmas house, but thats if she was latina. anyway, it was actually bigger inside than it looks, with two or three different little rooms to sit in. there are small random tables and chairs. the owner (sorry i forgot her name!) was so sweet. we were the only ones in there at the time so she hollered at us from the register «how you guys doing? its good huh?!» and chatted with us a bit when we were paying. she said that everything is homemade, without any lard and that she used to be open for dinner on thursday and fridays but times are tough and she had to switch it to only on fridays for now. she writes the specials on a tiny piece of paper taped onto the screen door. look closely, you might miss it.
they gave us chips and salsa when we sat. the salsa was really good and tasted homemade. it came in a little squeeze bottle, which was nice because we could pretty much refill our little dish ourselves, and put the salsa on our food. the chips were obviously Mission tortillas though. too bad they werent also homemade. anyway, i ordered the chilequiles and the bf the beef burrito. it was smaller portions than i had expected but not bad. the chilequiles came with rice and beans. none of it seemed greasy or heavy at all. the chilequiles had a nice tomato sauce on top and i also got an over easy egg. it tasted even better with the salsa. the rice was light and fluffy and the beans tasted fresh (without the lard). the bfs burrito was a little on the small side. he asked for no beans, so it was basically just ground beef and spanish rice. it was kinda crumbly (like they drained all the fat out). it was okay. next time i want to try the menudo and maybe one of their other entrée plates.

Well I finally needed to do a review for this place. I know that some people love it and some hate it. I think it is about average. However it is a twist on your typical Mexican faire as it is truely TexMex.
I think that it is a bit pricy for what you get… Some of the food is not super flavorful. For example the tacos are decent but without salsa they lack flavor. Once you add in a bit of the salsa they do get better. I will say the handmade flour tortillas are very yum.
I also got a tamale and it was very tasty. It was served wet with a red sauce and cheese. I definitely enjoyed it, but it was ¹⁄₃ or ¼ the size of a traditional tamale and it was seemingly a bit pricier than I had anticipated it would be.
Pro Tip: The specials are the regular prices that are listed in the menu. Why are they specials, I cant quite figure that part out.
This is a sit down waiter service restaurant. However you pay at the register and it seems like you get served at the front and put in your order there like a baja fresh or wahoos style joint. That is not the case here, unless you are getting something to go I suppose. I was totally confuzzled on that point.
The owner and waitress are very nice courteous and willing to give you any info. However half the menu appears to be written in chalk at the front and I didnt think that all of it was listed on the one page menu.
They do serve breakfast at least through lunch as well. So there you have the good the bad and the tasteless…

****Texas-​Mex Style Breakfast in the OC***
Great Breakfast Option, Credit Cards Accepted, Like eating at home!
The chiliquilis couldn’t have been more perfect. All fresh ingredients. Even whole beans. The tomato was perfect. The egg on top was the icing on the cake. The egg burrito was average.
The outside of this restaurant proudly displays the Texas Flag. Thisis Tex-​Mex the non Bobby Flay Way. Walk into a house, sit down in the kitchen and have mom cook you up breakfast. The only difference here is that you have to pay. Otherwise, Yup… Eat breakfast at home.
The house could use a little fixing up inside and it was a bit pricey… but I am, indeed, a fan!

I came here because of the great Unilocal reviews only to wonder if this is the same place.
$ 19 for lunch.
Yes, it is a cute house opened up as a restaurant and it did remind me of countless roadside places in Texas. But the prices were way out of town on this one. The burritos are made on tortillas the size of your hand. So a $ 6 burrito is not a deal — not even close considering that it’s just the burrito with no side of rice and beans.
My lunch partner got a potato and egg burrito and was just as disappointed in the size since this place is rated a $ when it should be a $$. My family is Texican — there is no way that they wouldn’t starve on the portions served. Sadly, the commercially made burritos at Chipotle are 4 times as large and a bit more flavorful. So the food was okay, but not as good as I’ve had at places that don’t claim to be Tex-​or-​Mex.
For cute, it gets a star and for having Big Red in the fridge it gets the other star (can sodas $ 2 each.) Maybe if you really need to visit it so you can Unilocal,La Casita is cute but it is not a place where I felt Texas-​home or Mexican-​home. If anything, it made me want to stop being lazy and make a few dozen tortillas at home with my Grandma’s recipe.

If you like Texas style tacos with crunchy shells and yellow cheese you may like this place.
If you like a nice homely environment with a freindly business owner and warm atmosphere you may like this place.
If you like a variety of prepared to order tacos, burritos, enchilladas and more you may like this place.
You can park in the back if no street parking is available. The service is always great from what I saw. The actual building looks like it may have been a small house at one time. Either way, I really dig this place.